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(CNN) -- Butter-colored sands.

Fluttering palm trees.

Cinematic sunsets.

We all understand the appeal of the Caribbean, but with visitor numbers rising year after year -- according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization more than 25 million people visited the region last year -- is there anything left of the older Caribbean?

The following destinations aren't the easiest to reach -- expect twin-prop planes and a distinct lack of road signs and rest stops -- but the quieter nooks of the Carib are worth seeking out.

Secret Road

Paradise road.

Route de la Trace (Martinique)

An ostentatious slice of the Cote d'Azur that's floated off to the Caribbean.

That's how most visitors perceive the French territory of Martinique.

But take the N3 road north and you'll soon be far away from the bling and Burgundy set.

Departing from Fort de France in the direction of Morne Rouge, the road runs along the volcanic Pitons du Carbet with sign-posted hiking trails radiating off the main route.

Otherwise known as the Route de la Trace, this coiling snake of asphalt was originally built in the 1600s by Jesuits, the road they toiled to create curls around bamboo forests, small botanical gardens, ferns and even a small size replica of the Sacré-Coeur Basilica from the motherland.

At the end of the road, rising high into the clouds on most days, sits the still active Mont Pelee, which destroyed the entire town of St. Pierre when it last erupted back in 1902.

The rocky climb takes around three hours but the view from the top of the rim over the dimpled green peaks of the island is, on a clear day, one of the finest in the Caribbean.

And you'll almost certainly have it all to yourself.

Route de la Trace, Highway N3; Martinique

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Secret "locals" experience

Meet the People tour (Cuba)

Township tours, where tourists get to look at poor people through the windows of a minibus, are often patronizing.

The charity Traidcraft, however, have bucked this trend with its Meet the People tour of lesser known parts of Cuba.

Ostensibly designed to show the consequences of the long standing U.S. trade embargo on the island (and the ingenuity of the methods used to get around it), in reality the tour is an instant fast track into the lives of Cubans who you simply won't meet poolside at the resorts.

You could find yourself taking in a traditional hog roast with a Cuban farming family, touring the orchards of fruit farmers in Ciego de Avila or simply chatting with the workers at the sharp end of the Cuban economy.

It's a tour that is, thankfully, short on predictable snapshot moments yet fascinating in its ability to introduce you to the everyday side of an island that has long been forced to mend and adapt to some of the world's hardest trade restrictions.

Saddel Skedaddle, The Cycle Hub, Ouseburn Regeneration Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; +44 (0)191 265 1110

Secret National Park

Arikok National Park (Aruba)

You'd be forgiven for thinking you were somewhere in Australia's Northern Territory were you to wake up on the northeastern corner of Aruba.

Here you'll find Arikok: quite simply a different universe.

A desert wilderness of abandoned gold mines, massive cacti, wandering goats, limestone caves and the odd mud-and-grass ancient farmhouse, this is a trip through time to what most of Aruba would have looked like in the 1800s.

This was a time when many Caribbean islands were all but ignored by colonists, thought of as mosquito- and rattlesnake-filled death traps.

Hiking (you'll want to carry plenty of water) on the 34 kilometers of self-guided trails through the park gets you close to all kinds of bizarre and lonesome sights in this harsh environment.

These might include Arawak Indian rock drawings and burrowing owls; or it might simply amount to the relief of downing an ice cold bottle of local Balashi beer from your cooler on one of the deserted sandy beaches.

Arikok National Park, San Fuego 70, Aruba; +297 585 1234

Secret cocktail

Sunny stinger.

The Killer Bee (Nevis)

As with all the most authentic Carib eateries, Sunshine's Beach Bar and Grill on Pinney's Beach in tiny Nevis doesn't look like it'll be winning any Michelin stars any time soon.

The most basic of huts, with a couple of picnic tables outside, the food, mainly spicy shrimp and fresh lobster at knock down prices, is a delight.

But the real thrill comes when you order a "killer bee" cocktail -- the most popular drink on the island, and one that locals will tell you is prepared properly only at Sunshine's.

Involving rum and honey, the secret element comes from all manner of other ingredients that may or may not include black pepper and nutmeg.

The waiters here will tell you that none of the Internet recipes that claim to have figured out the secrets have got it right so far.

Poured out of a milk container into a plastic cup, the amber glow of the drink seems fairly harmless at first.

But if you want to drink like the locals, and probably have a sore head the following morning, getting stung by a killer bee (or four) is a rite of passage in Nevis.

Sunshine's Beach Bar and Grill, Pinney's Beach, Charlestown, Saint Kitts and Nevis; +1 869 469 5817

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Secret beach

Klein Curaçao (Curaçao)

A two-hour sail on the turquoise waters off the mainland, Klein Curaçao is a place to wrap a Do Not Disturb sign around your waist and get involved in some serious beach combing on a pancake flat, uninhabited island with an eight-mile-long soft sandy beach -- and very little else.

You can walk along the beach to gaze at the ancient shipwreck or walk around an abandoned lighthouse.

Or just hang out on the beach.

Either way, the company will be limited to a handful of local fisherman and perhaps the odd school of dolphins who have a habit of following the boats that bring visitors here.

Klein Curaçao, Island 2 hours off the coast of Curaçao

Secret birding hub

Asa Wright Nature Centre (Trinidad and Tobago)

Little visited by tourists and regarded as the industrial hub of the Caribbean, Trinidad is a major destination for birdwatchers who generally have this former coffee plantation to themselves.

A 200-acre reserve in the island's northern mountain range, the Asa Wright Nature Centre is now a dense mass of rainforest and mangrove swamps, alive with more than 400 species, including scarlet ibises, toucans, parrots, hummingbirds and yellow orioles.

Guides are highly knowledgeable and even if the ultra-rare oilbird (one of the main draws for birders) doesn't emerge, you can head back to the Edwardian-era lodge, a good place for a cocktail as the sun dips below the mountains.

Asa Wright Nature Centre, Blanchisseuse Road, Arima, Trinidad; +1 868 667 4655

Secret hike

Valley of Desolation (Dominica)

Filled with bubbling mineral pools, fast-flowing rivers and powerful jets of steam shooting out of the earth, the aptly named Valley of Desolation is as far as you can get from a mainstream Caribbean experience.

Located on the still little visited former British colony of Dominica, a hike to the valley involves trekking through a dimly lit forest of 100 foot tall "gummy gum" trees, colossal vines and barely noticeable trails before you reach the aptly named Boiling Lake.

Peering down from above, the gray-green waters bubble and hiss like a boiling kettle.

The second largest of its kind in the world, this fierce and natural wonder hardly offers the cooling effect you might hope for after a steep 16-mile hike (it can be done in one full day), but respite is at hand if you hang up your boots at the nearby Papillote Wilderness retreat.

Its seven rooms in the hills have hot springs just outside.

Valley of Desolation, Morne Trois Pitons National Park, Dominica

Secret diving adventure

Some of the world's clearest water. No wonder he likes it here.

Turtle diving (Bonaire)

Protected for more than 30 years, the entire coastline around the Dutch territory of Bonaire has some of the clearest waters and most undisturbed coral reef on the planet.

The island was ranked number one in the Caribbean in the 2013 Global Sustainable Tourist Review, scoring a maximum "green" rating for the condition and maintenance of its marine life, nature, landscape and coastline.

Turtles are the main draw.

You're all but guaranteed to see these graceful creatures gliding above the pristine white sands while parrotfish lurk among the orange cup coral.

Swim deeper and you'll find sea fans and anemones swaying with the cool current.

Hawksbill turtles are what divers yearn to see the most, but you may find that the triangle-shaped box fish, hunting morays or schools of technicolor butterfly fish really steal the show.

Bonaire Turtles, Kralendijk, Bonaire; +599 717 2225

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Secret dish

Goat water (Montserrat)

The name may be a little unappetizing, but try a bite of this cross between Irish stew and oxtail soup and you may start wondering why the national dish of tiny Montserrat isn't better known.

Known as the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean (a reference to the Irish heritage of the early settlers), Montserrat hit global headlines back in 1997 when the Soufriere volcano erupted, destroying the capital city Plymouth and making the southern two-thirds of the island uninhabitable.

Life for the 6,000 remaining residents goes on, however, and the northern section of Montserrat remains a gloriously untouched piece of the Caribbean pre-mass tourism.

Tiny B&Bs, sleepy villages and verdant forests typify the island.

An essential local experience is lining up for a bowl of goat water (served with a crusty bread roll) at the tiny pale yellow shack known as the Emerald Rose Restaurant.

There are competing claims all over the island as to who sells the best version of the dish, with secret ingredients and family recipes for making the perfect bowl legion.

All that most chefs will reveal is that the dish contains onions, chives, black pepper, garlic, thyme, thickening flour, gravy browning and, of course, goat meat.

Whatever else goes into it remains privileged information -- obsessively guarded by families.

Emerald Rose Restaurant, St John's, Montserrat; +1 491 5941; dinner by reservations only

Secret Shop

L'Atelier Turquoise (Grenadines)

Using silver and precious stones from across the globe, Annie-France Dulac sells her handcrafted jewelery from this bijou store next to the vegetable market by the harbor in Clifton, the miniscule main town on Union Island, a five-square-mile outpost in the Grenadines.

The low key shop sells all kinds of authentic artisan creations, such as Vincentian banana leaf paintings, white cedar sculptures, acrylics from Haiti and all manner of colorful paintings by local artists.

For a souvenir that doesn't look like it could have been bought in the airport duty free lounge, Dulac's store sells high quality goods better suited to the mantelpiece than the bottom of a drawer back home.

這種孤立的海灘是一處環繞你的腰部請勿打擾的牌子，並得到了一些嚴重的海灘梳理上一個無人居住的小島與八英里長的柔軟的沙灘。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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故事突出

• 你所有，但保證看到海龜滑翔上面的潔白沙灘潛水時博內爾
• 荒涼的山谷充滿了氣泡礦泉水游泳池和水流湍急的河流
• 山羊的水可能聽起來不好吃，但愛爾蘭燉肉和牛尾湯之間的交叉是美味

 

（CNN） -奶油色的沙灘。

飛舞的棕櫚樹。

電影日落。

我們都明白加勒比海的吸引力，但隨著連年上升的遊客數目 - 根據聯合國世界旅遊組織超過25萬人次訪問了該地區去年的 - 有什麼舊加勒比海剩下什麼？

下面的目的地是不是最容易到達 - 期待雙螺旋槳飛機，並明顯缺乏道路標誌和休息站 - 但是加勒比的安靜角落都值得尋找。

密道

天堂之路。

路線德拉跟踪（馬提尼克）

蔚藍海岸的財大氣粗切片時的飄離到加勒比海。

這是大多數遊客是如何看待馬提尼克的法國領土。

但走N3路向北，你會很快遠離金光閃閃和勃艮第一套。

從法蘭西堡在紅山的方向出發，在路上奔跑沿火山岩釘杜CARBET與登錄發布登山步道離輻射的主要途徑。

否則，被稱為路線德拉跟踪，瀝青這個盤繞的蛇最初是由耶穌會士建於17世紀，在路上他們辛勤創造周圍竹林捲髮，小植物園，蕨類植物和聖心，即使是小尺寸複製品大殿從祖國。

在路的盡頭，在大多數日子高入雲升起，坐在依然活躍皮利山，摧毀了聖皮埃爾整個小鎮，當它最後一次爆發是早在1902。

的岩石攀登需時約3小時，但來自邊緣的頂部對該島的酒窩綠峰的看法是，在一個晴朗的日子，最優秀的加勒比地區之一。

而你幾乎肯定會擁有這一切給自己。

路線德拉跟踪，高速公路N3; 馬提尼克

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揭秘“本地人”的經驗

滿足人們遊（古巴）

鄉之旅，讓遊客度過一個小巴的窗戶看窮人，常常光顧。

慈善Traidcraft，然而，逆勢與古巴的鮮為人知的部位其滿足人們遊覽。

表面上是為了顯示在島上已久的美國貿易禁運（和用於避開它的方法別出心裁）的後果，在現實中旅是一個即時的快車道進入古巴人的生活誰，你根本就不會滿足池畔的度假勝地。

你會發現自己走在一個傳統的烤豬與古巴農民家庭，參觀果農的果園謝戈德阿維拉或者乾脆在古巴經濟的尖底與工人交談。

這是一個旅遊，所幸的是，短期可預測的快照時刻，它向您介紹，長期以來被迫修補和適應一些世界上最難的貿易限制的一個島嶼的日常側能力，但引人入勝。

Saddel斯基達德爾，循環中樞，Ouseburn再生中心，紐卡斯爾，英國; +44（0）191 265 1110

揭秘國家公園

地點Arikok國家公園（阿魯巴）

你會誤以為你是在某處澳大利亞北領地是您在阿魯巴島的東北角醒來。

在這裡，你會發現地點Arikok：很簡單，不同的宇宙。

廢棄金礦，大量的仙人掌，羊躑躅，石灰石洞穴和奇泥和草古老的農舍沙漠荒野，這是穿越時空的旅行大多數阿魯巴將在1800年是什麼樣子。

這是當時許多加勒比島嶼都卻忽略了殖民者的時候，以為是蚊子和響尾蛇充滿死亡陷阱。

穿過公園徒步旅行（你要攜帶大量的水）在34公里的自導式步道讓你接近各種離奇的寂寞景象在這種惡劣的環境。

這些措施可能包括阿拉瓦克印第安人的岩畫和穴居貓頭鷹; 或者它可能只是等於在荒蕪的沙灘之一擊落冰冷一瓶當地的啤酒巴拉希從冷卻器的救濟。

地點Arikok國家公園，聖70火地島，阿魯巴; +297 585 1234

雞尾酒的秘密

陽光明媚的毒刺。

在殺人蜂（尼維斯）

正如所有最地道的加勒比小吃店，陽光的海灘酒吧和燒烤的賓利海灘在微小尼維斯看起來並不像它會在任何時間很快贏得任何米其林星。

最基本的小屋，一對夫婦野餐桌之外，食品，主要是香辣​​蝦和新鮮的龍蝦在打掉的價格，是一種愉悅。

島上最流行的飲料，和一個當地人會告訴你，只有在陽光的準備妥當 - 但是當你為了一個“殺人蜂”雞尾酒真正的快感來。

涉及朗姆酒和蜂蜜的秘密元素來自其他成分的所有的方式，可能會或可能不包括黑胡椒和肉荳蔻。

這裡的服務員會告訴你，沒有互聯網的食譜，聲稱已經想通了的秘密已經得到它的權利為止的。

倒出牛奶容器放入一個塑料杯，飲料的琥珀色光芒似乎相當無害的在第一。

但是，如果你想喝酒像當地人，並可能有一個頭部疼痛第二天早上，越來越刺痛了殺人蜂（或四個）是通過在尼維斯儀式。

陽光的海灘酒吧和燒烤，賓利海灘，查爾斯頓，聖基茨和尼維斯; +1 869 469 5817

更多：7秘密加勒比島嶼

秘密海灘

克萊恩庫拉索（）

兩個小時的航行在蔚藍的海水大陸客，克萊因庫拉索島是一個地方來包裝你腰部周圍的一個請勿打擾的牌子，並涉足一些嚴重的海灘與八英里長的梳理上一個煎餅平，無人島柔軟的沙灘 - 和很少的東西。

你可以沿著海灘漫步，凝視著古沉船或走動一個廢棄的燈塔。

或只是掛在沙灘上。

無論哪種方式，該公司將被限制在少數幾個當地漁民，也許誰都有以下的遊客帶來這裡的船的習慣海豚的奇數學校。

克萊恩庫拉索島，海島2小時關閉庫拉索島的海岸

秘密觀鳥中心

阿薩萊特自然中心（特立尼達和Tobag Õ ）

遊客很少看望視為加勒比地區的工業中心，特立尼達和多巴哥是觀鳥者誰通常有這樣的前咖啡種植園，以自己的主要目的地。

在島上的北部山脈200英畝的儲備，阿薩萊特自然中心現在是黑壓壓的一片熱帶雨林和紅樹林沼澤，活著有400餘種，包括猩紅朱鷺，巨嘴鳥，鸚鵡，蜂鳥和黃色的黃鸝鳥。

導遊是高度知識化，即使超罕見oilbird（主之一抽獎觀鳥）不會出現，您可以前往回愛德華七世時代的小屋，一個好地方雞尾酒，像太陽一樣逢低下面連綿群山。

阿薩萊特自然中心，Blanchisseuse路，華宇，特立尼達和多巴哥; +1 868 667 4655

加息的秘密

荒蕪的山谷（多米尼加）

充滿了沸騰的礦泉池，水流湍急的河流和強大的蒸汽拍攝飛機衝出地球，蒼涼的適當命名的谷遠，你可以從主流加勒比海體驗得到。

位於多米尼加的仍然很少訪問的前英國殖民地，加息山谷涉及通過100英尺高的“橡皮糖口香糖”的樹木，巨大的藤蔓和幾乎沒有明顯的小徑昏暗的森林徒步到達適當命名的沸騰湖前。

從上面的凝視下，灰綠色的海水泡沫和嘶嘶聲就像一個沸騰的水壺。

第二個最大的同類在世界上，這種激烈和自然奇觀很難提供冷卻效果，你可能希望有一個陡峭的16英里的徒步旅行之後（它可以在一整天來完成），但喘息的機會就在眼前，如果你掛你的靴子在附近的Papillote荒野撤退。

其七間在山上有溫泉外面。

荒蕪的山谷，摩諾瓦皮斯通斯國家公園，多米尼加

揭秘跳水一dventure

一些世界上清亮的水。難怪他喜歡在這裡。

海龜潛水（博內爾）

為保護30年以上，博內爾荷蘭境內的整條海岸線有一些清晰的水域，在這個星球上最不受干擾的珊瑚礁。

海島被排在第一位的加勒比地區2013年全球可持續旅遊評價，得分最高的“綠色”評級，它的海洋生物，自然，景觀和海岸線的條件和維護。

龜是主要的吸引力。

你所有，但保證看到這些優雅的生物滑翔上面的潔白沙灘而鸚嘴魚潛伏橙杯狀珊瑚蟲之一。

游泳更深，你會發現海上風機和海葵與涼爽的電流搖曳。

玳瑁是什麼潛水員渴望見到最多的，但你可能會發現三角形盒子魚，狩獵海鰻或人工色蝴蝶魚學校真的大出風頭。

博內爾島海龜，克拉倫代克，博內爾; +599 717 2225

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揭秘菜

山羊水（蒙特塞拉特）

這個名字可能有點倒胃口，但盡量愛爾蘭燉肉和牛尾湯之間的交叉咬一口，你可能會開始懷疑，為什麼小小的蒙特塞拉特的國菜是不是更廣為人知。

被稱為翡翠島的加勒比海（參考早期移民的愛爾蘭遺產），蒙特塞拉特重創全球頭條新聞早在1997年，當蘇弗里耶爾火山爆發，摧毀了首都城市普利茅斯，使南部三分之二的島嶼無法居住。

生活剩下的6,000位居民的推移，然而，蒙特塞拉特北段仍然是一個光榮不變片加勒比海預大眾旅遊。

微小的B＆B旅館，沉睡的村莊和林木蔥蘢是所謂的島嶼。

一個重要的局部經驗排隊一碗羊水（送達硬皮麵包卷）在被稱為翡翠玫瑰餐廳的微小淡黃色窩棚。

有競爭的要求，整個島上是誰賣的菜最好的版本，有秘密的成分和家庭食譜做了完美的碗軍團。

所有這一切大部分廚師將揭示的是，菜含有蔥，韭菜，黑胡椒，大蒜，百里香，增稠粉，肉汁褐變，當然，山羊肉。

不管別人進入它仍然是保密的資料 - 由家庭痴迷把守。

翡翠玫瑰ř estaurant，聖約翰，蒙特塞拉特; +1 491 5941; 通過預約晚餐只

秘密商店

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