This isn’t an island of swim-up bars, infinity pools, and frozen daiquiris - though the rum is dangerously good. Dominica is raw, volcanic, gloriously overgrown—and seemingly determined to turn every hike into an Indiana Jones audition.

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Nicknamed the “Nature Island,” Dominica is basically one enormous green exclamation point: steaming volcanic terrain, waterfalls crashing through jungle, black-sand beaches, boiling lakes, hot springs, and rivers so clear you’ll briefly question whether you’ve wandered into a tourism brochure rendered by AI. The island is rugged, wet, wild and wonderfully unconcerned with being polished.