Barbados

With plenty of golf courses, historic homes and sporting events, Barbados is an ideal vacation spot for active travelers. Avid surfers flock to Bathsheba Beach on the east coast while swimmers looking for calmer waters head to the south coast’s Dover Beach. Carlisle Bay near Bridgetown (Barbados’ capital) is another popular shoreline, thanks in part to the various shipwrecks and abundant wildlife that await scuba divers and snorkelers. Inland explorers must not pass up an opportunity to visit the lush Hunte’s Gardens or Harrison’s Cave, a famous Barbadian cave system that is more than a mile long. And a trip to Barbados wouldn’t be complete without sampling some of the country’s world-famous rum