Guadeloupe in 6 days

The highest peak in the Lesser Antilles, climbed from the Bains Jaunes car park through moss forest and up stone slabs to sulphurous fumaroles.

Three waterfalls on La Soufrière above Capesterre-Belle-Eau; a paved path from the car park reaches the 110-metre second fall in twenty minutes.

Two volcanic islets off Malendure beach where Jacques Cousteau filmed, with his bronze bust twelve metres down among sea fans and sponges.

Over a kilometre of golden sand backed by sea grapes and palms, with no buildings in sight; the swell is often good for bodyboarding.

A Caribbean centre for the memory of the slave trade and slavery, opened in 2015 on a former sugar factory site in Pointe-à-Pitre.

The limestone eastern tip of Grande-Terre; a fifteen-minute climb to the cross looks over La Désirade, Petite-Terre and Marie-Galante.

A round, flat island of cane fields and cliffs away from mass tourism, with three distilleries, Bielle, Père Labat and Bellevue, making agricultural rum.

Red-roofed houses around a celebrated bay, twenty-five minutes by boat from Trois-Rivières, with Fort Napoléon, its iguanas, and the sheltered Pompierre beach.