You can trek to a boiling lake in the Caribbean – and it’s intense

Beware: Dominica can kick your ass, says Laura Chubb

Laura Chubb
Tuesday 17 December 2019 20:03 GMT
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Most Caribbean islands coddle visitors with bleached-white beaches and textbook luxury. Dominica – a tiny, primal island often confused with the Dominican Republic, a good 1,000km away – is different. Dominica can kick your ass.

The “big ticket” attraction? Nope not a swish resort, or a crystal-clear bay. It’s a punishing ascent of more than a thousand metres through thick rainforest, followed by a spot of scrambling across the volcanically active – and formidably monikered – Valley of Desolation, all in order to reach the island’s scorching natural curiosity, the Boiling Lake.

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