The Nature Isle — boiling lakes, whale-watching, and the last untamed Caribbean
Dominica earns its title as the Nature Isle of the Caribbean honestly: 60% of the island is covered in rainforest, 365 rivers run to the sea, and the second-largest boiling lake on Earth sits inside a steaming volcanic crater. Unlike its neighbours, Dominica has resisted mass tourism — there are no mega-resorts, no casino strips, only sperm whales that visit year-round, canyons to rappel, and Kalinago (Carib) communities who have called these mountains home for centuries.
Dominica was the last Caribbean island to be colonised due to fierce resistance by the Kalinago people, who held off European settlement until the early 18th century — a community of several thousand Kalinago descendants still lives on the northeast coast in the Kalinago Territory, the only pre-Columbian indigenous reserve in the Eastern Caribbean. The island passed between France and Britain until finally ceded to Britain in 1805, and gained independence in 1978. Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017, destroying 90% of roofs and most crops; the rebuilding effort, guided by a 'Climate…