Caribbean Travel

In this exclusive and one of its kind Aruba travel guide, learn how to make the most of your vacation time on this Caribbean Island. From the best places to eat at in Oranjestad to combing through the little-known beaches of Aruba, this book has it all covered.

To find the real Puerto Rico - the one that shopping malls and condos have yet to reach - head for the towns and villages of the Cordillera Central, or Central Mountains. Bisected by the Ruta Panoramica (Scenic Route), the mountains provide a relaxing getaway with an atmosphere so unlike the coast that it feels like an entirely different island. The Ruta Panorámica is a driving adventure covering more than a hundred miles of countryside.

What happens when you venture outside the boundaries of a prepackaged travel experience and truly expose yourself to the history, economics, and culture of a country other than your own? We are all familiar with the Cuban cliché: decaying colonial architecture, soulful salsa dancing, refreshing cocktails by the seaside - paradise, in a nutshell. We also share a superficial understanding of Cuba’s troubled political history and economic struggles over the last decades.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Bermuda. Greater Than a Tourist: Bermuda by Clara Fay offers the inside scoop on the island of Bermuda. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Designed to be used while you re on the go, Hunter's Pocket Adventures make the perfect take-along reference. They contain all the practical travel information you need - places to stay and eat, tourist information resources, travel advice, emergency contacts, and more - plus condensed sections on history and geography that give you good background knowledge of the destination. This guide focuses on the island of St. Croix in the USVI, but there is extensive information about the entire island chain, as well.

Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. In this book, you will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay. This book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours, but instead will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other books.

Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighborhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents - old communist ladies, their skeptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors - go about their daily lives.

Everything in 12-year-old Pilar Violeta “Purp” Ramirez’s world is changing, and Pilar doesn’t care for it one bit. Her Chicago neighborhood is gentrifying, and her chores have doubled since her sister, Lorena, left for college. The only constant is Abuela and Mami’s code of silence around her cousin, Natasha - who disappeared in the Dominican Republic 50 years ago during the Trujillo dictatorship. So when Pilar hears that one of Lorena's professor's studies disappearances under the Trujillato, she hops on the next train.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit the United States' Virgin Islands. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Greater Than a Tourist - Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago by Fahimah Ali offers the inside scoop on Port of Spain. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Golf resorts - it's a specialized niche for a savvy group that knows what it wants. What they want is golf, so the Nicols have devoted pages of attention to yardage and par, green fees, and special course features for hundreds of golf courses in the Caribbean. But there are other factors to consider as well, because the point here is to take a vacation, a golf vacation, where you get to luxuriate in your scenic vistas, eat your sumptuous meals, and play your 18 holes, too.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Dominica. Greater than a Tourist: Dominica by Nicole Bertrand offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit the Nature Island of the Caribbean.

Chachalaka Sunrise and The White Stone Alex and friends pursue the legend of the white stone that fell from the sky in ancient Yucatan. Chachalaka Sunrise tells the story of the stone coming to earth and how it served as the power behind a lost civilization. The stone was said to have strange powers that could corrupt anyone who possessed it. The White Stone tells the modern story of how Alex and company travel to Play del Carmen in search of the legendary object.

Up until a few years ago, St. Kitts and Nevis were the type of islands that tourists delighted in discovering. Seemingly untouched by modern times, they seemed like the old Caribbean; small, intimate hotels, pristine beaches, uncluttered roads, with acres of cane fields and rainforests dominating the landscape. But now two large chain hotels; the Marriott in St. Kitts and the Four Seasons in Nevis have broadened the options.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you. Greater Than a Tourist - St. Croix, USA, Virgin Islands, United States by Tracy Birdsall offers the inside scoop on St. Croix. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit St. Lucia. Greater Than a Tourist—St. Lucia by Author Emilia Caspian offers the inside scoop on the tropical rainforest island, St. Lucia, the Fair Helen of the West Indies. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the ‘Greater Than a Tourist’ series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Here is the new sixth edition of this remarkable travel guide. We travel to grow - our adventure guides show you how. Experience the places you visit more directly, freshly, intensely than you would otherwise - sometimes best done on foot, in a canoe, or through cultural adventures like art courses, cooking classes, learning the language, meeting the people, joining in the festivals and celebrations. This can make your trip life-changing, unforgettable.

Each of the islands in this chain (Anguilla, St. Martin/Sint Maarten, Antigua, Barbuda, St. Kitts & Nevis) has its own history, culture and ecology, offering a cultural melange for those on an island-hopping vacation. Rainforest, beaches, wetlands, mangrove swamps and offshore shoals afford an unlimited variety of places in which to create your own adventure vacation.

How far would you go for a second chance at life…and love? Michael Charon is ready to die. Well, not really. He plans to fake his death so he can start over and reinvent himself, free from his unfaithful wife and hollow existence. But his elaborate plan to drive his SUV off a bridge and parachute his way to a new life is thwarted by a man who’s truly trying to kill himself. Instead of ending it all, Michael ends up in Germany on a work trip, where he meets Maria, a beautiful American author. The two fall madly in love, spending every waking moment together. For the first time in ages, ...

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Barbados. Greater than a Tourist- Barbados by Maria Belgrave offers the inside scoop about Barbados. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.