Let's Cruise the Southern Caribbean

I may have mentioned a couple of months ago that I was planning a girls trip to Paris. Sadly, I was not able to get it together. I still plan to go, perhaps in 2014 but next time I will determine another method of gathering willing participants.

That being said, I still plan to vacation in 2013. I pondered available options and decided on a cruise to the Southern Caribbean. I have not been to the Caribbean before mostly because I had no interest in visiting the usual suspects but I learned that there are actually about 5,000 islands and cays that dot the Caribbean.

So after much research, I chose a 14-day Exotic Southern Caribbean cruise. I selected the southern Caribbean because it consists of some of the more less travelled islands and because the southern Caribbean islands have a secret weapon—they're less likely to encounter hurricanes. Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao don't even lie in the hurricane belt. The other islands do, but most haven't seen storms in years.

We will cruise on the Celebrity Eclipse which includes 7 ports of call - St Thomas, St Marten, Antigua, St Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, Aruba and Curacao.

Southern Caribbean
By Cruise Critic

In a very quiet way, the Southern Caribbean, probably the least known part of the region, is becoming one of the most interesting. 

The islands of the Southern Caribbean, which translate roughly to those lying east and south of St. Maarten/St. Martin, have always been slightly more exotic than counterparts in the Western and Eastern Caribbean.

Part of that is due to the very strong colonial influence that pervades many of these islands, a great percentage of which are still related to France, the Netherlands and the U.K.

Slideshow Caribbean 

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