Martinique: Voyage Experience

By Cristina Rebiere

Thank you for purchasing this guide and welcome to your travel guide "Voyage Experience: Martinique"! We hope it will help you discover this dream island that awaits your arrival. Martinique is not just an island among others: it's really an incredible beautiful one! With gorgeous white and black sandy beaches, clear turquoise waters, fantastic snorkeling and diving spots featuring multicolored fish and sea turtles, lush nature, and beautiful flowers… The list is so long that I couldn't even finish it. We spent three years on this paradise island, exploring it from top to bottom. In our opinion, Martinique has the most beautiful beaches we have seen so far (and we have visited several hundred in our travels). You'll find their descriptions in this guide, along with our favorite spots. Maybe this will inspire you to go see these wonders for yourself, selecting the ones that suit your taste.

Well, to be honest, in 2023, we discovered some beaches even more beautiful than those you can find in this guide. So, if you want to find more about them, do not hesitate to read our guide "New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands".

However, Martinique is an ideal destination if you're seeking paradise beaches without dangers such as sharks, rough seas, or dangerous currents. It offers beautiful natural sites, numerous hikes, lush nature, and gorgeous flowers. Some hikes are truly unique, and various activities await your discovery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cristina Rebiere
• Release date: Jan 15, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224648191

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How to use the eGuide?

You have probably read dozens of books or even tourist guides in your life. They typically have a table of contents at the beginning of the book, an index or glossary, and a table of photographs at the end of the book. The electronic version of this eGuide contains a lot of this information, but also offers a bonus that will help you quickly and intuitively mobilize the content and create your own reading mode: it’s a genuine digital book, tactile, akin to a website that doesn't require an internet connection. We have organized the Voyage Experience eguide in a conventional manner for those who want to read 'normally' without pondering metaphysical or methodological questions: they can jump directly to the 'Sites to visit' section. For the curious or fans of personalization and web browsing, we offer three navigation modes. You can always go back in your reading by using the Back key on your smartphone, tablet or touchscreen computer. All underlined texts are hyperlinks, so you can click them. You can see colorful, square thematic icons with a pictogram inside. Here are a few examples:

These icons clearly and simply indicate the interests that are present in the respective section. The background color of these icons depends on the theme. You can see the details of these icons in the chapter dedicated to IcoNAV. Here is the mode of operation of the 3 proposed navigation possibilities:

1. GeoNAV: a classic geographical exploration

In the electronic version, by touching or clicking the hyperlink corresponding to the tourist site you are interested in, you go directly to the corresponding page.

2. PhotoNAV: discover dream sites through photos

In the electronic version, by touching or clicking the hyperlink below the photo, you go directly to the corresponding page.

3. IcoNAV: choose your interests by icons

In the chapter IcoNAV, you can discover the themes of the icons and, for each of them, the list of tourist sites where this icon is found, as hyperlinks that you can activate by clicking them. Nothing could be easier!

How do I view maps?

In the electronic version, if you are not connected to the internet and if your e-reader allows it, you can zoom on the maps embedded in tourist sites. If you are connected to the internet you can also access the maps offered by the "OpenStreetMap" site by clicking on the corresponding hyperlink located under the respective map.

Martinique-map

GeoNAV

We divided Martinique into five areas of tourist interest.

North in blue: 10 tourist sections

East, yellow: 3 tourist sections

South,green: 14 tourist sections

Center,purple: 4 tourist sections

West,red: 3 tourist sections

PhotoNAV

Some of my favorite spots…

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Anse Couleuvre

Anse Corps de Garde

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View from the "Beauregard"

Anse Dufour

IcoNAV

In the eGuide you can choose your points of interest or hobbies by icons. In this paper version you can find the location on the table of contents.

General information icons

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FAVOURITE Beauregard | Anse Corps de Garde| Anse Dufour | Anse Meunier | Grande Anse | Trace des Caps | Bouliki Hike

Danger!    Beauregard | Grand-Rivière| Mount Pelée | Anse Meunier| Grande Anse | Le Diamant | Sainte Luce

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TIP Beauregard |Distillery Saint-James|Grand-Rivière| Mount Pelée| Anse Corps de Garde| Anse Dufour |Anse Figuier| Anse Salines| Grande Anse| Sainte-Luce | Trace des Caps | Trois-Îlets | Balata garden | Carbet

HANDICAP ACCESS

Caravelle Peninsula

ic_Enfants CHILDREN Ajoupa Bouillon |Anse Couleuvre | Couleuvre Hike | Sainte Marie | Caravelle | Trinité | Corps de Garde | Anse Dufour |Anse Figuier| Anse Meunier | Anse Michel, Au bois | Anse Salines | Pointe du Bout | Sainte-Anne | Sainte-Luce | Trace des Caps| Trois Îlets | Pottery village | Lamentin | Bouliki Hike |Saint Joseph |Fort de France |Balata garden | Carbet

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BEACH Anse Couleuvre | Sainte Marie | Caravelle | Trinité | Corps de Garde | Anse Dufour |Anse Figuier| Anse Meunier | Anse Michel, Au bois | Anse Salines |Grande Anse | Le Diamant | Pointe du Bout | Sainte-Anne | Sainte-Luce | Trace des Caps | Trois Îlets | Fort de France| Carbet

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SNORKELING    Anse Dufour | Anse Figuier | Grande Anse

BOAT

Pointe du Bout

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BATHING

Ajoupa Bouillon | Anse Couleuvre | Bouliki Hike | Saint Joseph

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WATER SPORTS

Grand-Rivière | Sainte Marie| Caravelle Peninsula| Corps de Garde| Anse Michel, Aux bois | Sainte-Luce

SEA LIFE    Anse Dufour | Grande Anse

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KAYAK     Anse Corps de Garde | Pottery village

DIVING

Le Diamant | Sainte-Luce

Culture icons

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ART-CULTURE

Sainte Marie | Habitation Clément | | Pottery village | Lamentin | Fort de France

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MUSEUM    Depaz | Saint-James | Saint Pierre Sainte Marie | Habitation Clément | Anse Figuier | Le Diamant | Trois Îlets | Fort de France

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RUINS    Saint Pierre| Caravelle Peninsula | Sainte-Anne | Sainte-Luce | Le Carbet

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TASTING

Depaz | Saint-James| Depaz | Saint-James| Sainte-Luce

ic_MonumentReligieux RELIGIOUS MONUMENT Saint Pierre| Sainte Marie| Le Diamant | Sainte-Anne| Trois Îlets | Lamentin | Saint Joseph | Fort de France

Nature icons

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WILD LIFE     Anse Couleuvre | Beauregard | Grand-Rivière | Anse Dufour | Anse Meunier | Grande Anse | Trace des Caps | Fort de France

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GARDEN, PARK Habitation Clément | Saint Joseph | Balata garden |

Le Carbet

NATURAL WONDER Ajoupa Bouillon | Beauregard | Mount Pelée| Couleuvre Hike | Grande Anse| Bouliki

ic_Randonnee HIKE Ajoupa Bouillon | Anse Couleuvre | Beauregard | Grand-Rivière | Mount Pelée| Sainte Marie | Caravelle | Corps de Garde | Anse Dufour | Anse Meunier| Anse Michel, | Anse Salines| Grande Anse|Sainte-Anne | Sainte-Luce | Trace des Caps | Bouliki Hike | Saint Joseph | Trace des Jésuites | Carbet

Sport icons

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GOLF

Trois-Îlets

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HORSE RIDING Trace des Caps| Trois Îlets

Leisure activities and life on-the-spot icons

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ACCOMMODATION Grand-Rivière | Caravelle Peninsula| Anse Figuier |Pointe du Bout |Sainte-Anne | Sainte-Luce| Trois Îlets | Le Carbet

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SHOPPING Sainte Marie| Habitation Clément | Pointe du Bout| Sainte-Luce| Pottery village | Fort de France

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LEISURE PARK    Trois Îlets | Lamentin | Saint Joseph | Le Carbet

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RESTAURANT Grand-Rivière | Corps de Garde | Anse Dufour| Anse Figuier| Trois Îlets| Grande Anse | Pointe du Bout | Pottery village| Lamentin | Fort de France| Le Carbet

Martinique: North

The North of the Flowers' island, as Martinique is called, is characterized by the presence of high hills: the mornes (hills), covered with rainforest jungle. There are more precipitations there than in the rest of the territory.

1. Ajoupa Bouillon    2. Anse Couleuvre     3. Beauregard canal

4. Depaz Distillery    5. Saint James Distillery    6. Grand-Rivière

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7. Mount Pelée        8. Saint Pierre        9. Sainte Marie

1. Ajoupa Bouillon

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Ajoupa Bouillon (Google Maps) is a small town in the north of Martinique with serene peace. In fact, it is the size of a village, but that's the case for almost all cities there, as the island is not too large. Its name comes from the Creole word ajoupa which means Caribbean makeshift shelter. The city would hold its name from Jean Gobert mister of Bouillon, native of Languedoc, region of France, settled in the region of the Oxbow lake where he died in 1680. It is him who would have made build, at the edge of