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What Makes Dominica Unique
What Makes Our Island Unique
Dominica offers the visitor an opportunity for a tranquil or adventurous vacation experience, in a very safe environment. Even if you are looking for the regular beach fare, Dominica provides an escape from the ordinary and an opportunity to truly take your shoes off.
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Our beaches are laddened with black, beautiful, volcanic sand. Unlike most Caribbean beaches, which are usually perforated with endless visitors and locals alike, Dominica's beaches are like a private oasis.
On any regular day, upon a visit to the beach, you are very likely to meet only a modest amount of fellow beach goers, or sometimes the luxury of a totally secluded beach escape.
Since its discovery in 1493, Dominica changed hands between Britain and France numerous times, the former taking ownership of it in the end. Therefore, the official language is English, although French Creole is also widely spoken as a dialect. Both English and French influences infiltrate other aspects of the island’s culture and architecture as well. Dominica gained independence from Britain in 1978.
The population is approximately 70,000 people mostly of African descent, although the island has a surviving population of Carib Indians, the indigenous people whom Columbus met when he came to the island in 1493. In terms of terrain, the island is mountainous and offers magnificent, scenic beauty. So pictures of
Dominica are quite diverse.
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You may often find, within the same day, it is raining in the interior, but entirely sunny in other parts of the island. Tropical gardens and forests are plentiful, and the island also has the second largest boiling lake in the world in addition to many natural hot sulphur springs and a plethora of rivers. The saying is that there is one river for everyday of the year!
The waters which run throughout the island are therapeutic, pristine, inviting, and unspoiled. In fact Dominica bottles its own spring water which is perhaps the cleanest water you will ever encounter. We also boast of having the best scuba diving and snorkeling in the Caribbean, and whale watching is also a major attraction.
As a result of the magnificent natural beauty, Dominica is well known to be The Nature Island of the Caribbean, a title which it so rightly deserves.
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