When you go on your next Caribbean holiday, you have two choices on how you can travel. You can go to a lush tourist resort, pay high prices, fight the crowds, get a tan, and never actually see the real Caribbean, or you can go somewhere a little more remote. Somewhere untainted by the outside world. A place where natural flora and fauna meet the sea in total tranquility. An island where you can truly experience what it's like to get away from it all. Thankfully, you can now take that second option without leaving behind all the comforts of life. Dominica's Sea View Apartments sits 100 feet above the beautiful village of Calibishie, Dominica, on the Calibishie Ridge. Each of the five units is newly constructed and features four rooms, kitchen, living room ( with television -free wireless internet access), dining room and bathrooms. Each fully furnished unit features a rear balcony of the bedroom which overlooks the banana and coconut fields. The front verandah overlooks the village itself, the breathtaking beaches of Calibishie, the nearby islands of Guadeloupe and Marie Galante, the natural rock formations known as Hells Gate, and the Morne Aux Diables high mountains, bringing the best of the island directly to you. The Apartments Comprises of 5 newly constructed units: 3 single bedroom units located upstairs , 2 double bedroom units located downstairs, living room ( with television ), bathroom, shower, a fully equipped kitchenette. At the guest house we offer you an apartment with self service: (sheets and towels are included). Rooms are rented and maintained by the guests. A cleaner can be assigned to your room at your request with an additional cost. Clean sheets and towels are provided. After changing the Dirty sheets towels and garbage are to be placed outside the room. Car rental is recommended since the Apartments is situated on a steep hill, which offers you the most magnificent view.

If you like to cook, this page will tell you what you need to know. There are a few grocery stores in town: Alford's and Coral Reef (Austrie: nick name). You will find a lot of stuff, every morning you will have fresh locally bread and desserts. Look for walking vendors selling just-picked callalou, jam,peppers, carrots, tomatoes, spinach, and fruit. At the end of Calibishie, you will find delicious ripe fruit at a very low price. If you like fresh fish, crayfish or lobster to cook, check the local fisherman in Calibishie, close to Calibishie Lodges. Or drive 20 minutes to Marigot village and check the fisherplace there, here they have daily fresh ocean food. Planning a stay of more than a week, and cooking yourself? Your best bet is to head into the capital, Roseau, to stock up on a more extensive selection of groceries at Astaphans - Whitchurch or Brizee's and hit the local fruit market. Portsmouth also has a produce market early Saturday morning. If you don't like to cook, check the local restaurants in Calibishie: Bamboo Restaurant - Escape Bar - Atlantic Ocean Restaurant and Backyard Grill or the local BBQ on the street. Just try them.

The Caribbean has many beautiful islands and numerous great diving destinations, but Dominica stands alone as the premier destination for adventurous nature lovers. Covered from end to end with towering mountains and volcanoes, jungle thick forest and hundreds of pure clear rivers cascading over magnificent waterfalls. Dominica is the Caribbean?s winner for divers, hikers, whale and dolphin watchers, bird watchers and nature lovers in general, who want to experience nature in its purest sense, Dominica! Considered the largest of its kind in the world, the lake boils form volcanic heat coming from the crater. A strenuous three to four hours hike each way. The hike to the two lakes offers wonderful panoramic views of the villages near the Atlantic coast. It starts at the Fresh Water lake, in the Morne Troi Pitons National Park, three to four hours roundtrip. At the altitude of 2,800 feet and more, the air is sweet, clean and pure, inviting you to rest and refresh yourself. Cabrits Dominica's war museum, a trip into the history of Dominica. The native Caribs live in a very special part of the island and still engage in many of their traditional handicrafts and lifestyle. A visit to the Caribs is one of the wonders of the Caribbean, which every visitor should experience. Just south of Porstmouth, on the Indian river, guides take you on a relaxing one hour boat ride up this winding, mangrove-lined river. Luxurious vegetation hangs overhead and along the banks, ideal place for photos and nature watching. Some of the best beaches are found along the northeast coast, where swimming is protected by coral reefs, Beautiful beaches surround the Calibishie coast. Dominica offers you white, grey and black beaches, due to it's volcanic origins. The rest of the coast offers you viewing areas you?ll never forget. Dominica is a slide show of beauty, with each image more colorful than the one before. Dominica is without doubt, the nature island of the Caribbean. A tropical green house bathed in a rainbow of colors and 365 rivers and streams. Between the mountains and the deep blue sea lies an endless string of adventures. Rivers burst through mountain gorges. Tumbling waterfalls crash down the mountains. Beautiful volcanic craters. One could spend a month in Dominica and still not see everything. The national parks still remain the best stands of relatively undisturbed, prime oceanic rain forest in the lesser Antilles, you will enjoy the multitudes of rivers and waterfalls, splendid for refreshing river bathing. A geyser from a massive creature spout suddenly fills the air. Whales appear right before your eyes. This, no doubt, is the celebrated stuff of story book adventures. Few experiences in lifetime are so electrifying. Dominica's gentle seas contours are ideal for hosting whale population, they can be seen as close as a few hundred yards from shore! The whales that live in these deep, warm waters are Sperm whales. Two species of endangered and endemic parrots, the Imperial or Sisserou and the Red-necked or Jaco, can be seen in Dominica.