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Caribbean Islands The islands of the Caribbean Sea or it is also well known as West Indies are a big archipelago

in the far west of the Atlantic Ocean, which was strung between North and South America. They've long been known as a resort vacation destination for mostly for singles and honeymooners and several tourists will come every year to spend the time with their families.

The Caribbean islands were first inhabited by the Arawak Indians and they were occupied by a more aggressive tribe, the Caribs. Later Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Danish, and British have arrived for developing Islands, while the Carib population have slowly declined due to various reasons. The Caribbean islands have well known for many historic battles and few buccaneer stories. Several tourists will make their holiday trip to Carribean Islands to enjoy a great time in beaches and music nightlifes, where they can also visit the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Dominica, Montserrat, Saba, Saint Kitts, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Thomas, Saint John, Tortola, Grenada, Saint Vincent and Trinidad & Tobago.

Caribbean also includes many smaller Islands like Lesser Antilles, a group of islands to the east and added to the west and south. The tourists are various less frequently visited islands are belong to Central and South American countries. The Caribbean islands are generally reputed a subregion of North America and organized into 30 territories including sovereign states, overseas departments, and dependencies. The waters of the Caribbean ocean will bring out migratory schools of fish, turtles and coral reef formations. The Puerto Rico trench was situated on the edging of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea around the north of the island of Puerto Rico, which it is the deepest point of the Atlantic Ocean. The Island connects the line of several major shipping itineraries with the Panama Canal connecting the western Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean.

The most of the tourists love to visit Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and the Cayman Islands, which often grouped as Greater Antilles and the largest countries in the Caribbean. The natural environmental assortment of the Caribbean islands leads to recent expansion in eco-tourism and this type of tourism will grow on the islands missing sandy beaches and dense human populations. The Carribean islands in the southern Lesser Antilles, Aruba, Bonaire and Curaao are exceptionally barren making them incongruous for agriculture. As they planned to use like salt pans, which were demoralized by the Dutch. Meanwhile, the ocean water was rendered into shallow ponds to produce coarse salt when the water evaporated. Tobacco was the crucial crop in early years, but it has changed the colonial era and eventually producing by sugarcane production as the region's basic crop now a days. Sugar has become the main production to export to European Countries. Cheap Holidays have been providing great offers to make a holiday trip to the Caribbean Islands to enjoy the music along side of the beach. Visit http://www.9holidays.co.uk/ for more details and offers.

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