The Caribbean is the world’s most important cruise ship destination. What Islands belong to the Caribbean? On your Caribbean cruise, experience the fascinating underwater world of coral reefs as well as the steamy jungle with the screams of the parrots, the ever-changing views on a mountain or coastal tour, the scent of spices and the blossom miracle of the tropics, the artist hand-shaped shells and the incomparable taste of a freshly harvested exotic fruit. A Caribbean cruise is a dream cruise. But what exactly belongs to the Caribbean? Not even the cartographer, not to mention tourist guides agree, what to the belongs to the Caribbean. Partially all the Islands are sometimes not at all, among the Caribbean, including the nearby Bahamas and the subsequent Turks and Caicos Islands, partly in turn only the Turks and Caicos group and the Bahamas foothills of the large – and small Inagua. They are covered by the Columbus concept of the Westindies but all. And since both the Bahamas also Grand Turk important ports of call for Caribbean cruises are, they are also for us to the Caribbean. The greatest confusion prevails in the allocation of at Caribbean cruises so popular Lesser Antilles in Leeward – Windward Islands.

In English, the Northern Group of the Virgin Islands belongs to the part in the German language to Montserrat and Antigua to the Leeward Islands, the southern, from Dominica and Grenada, the Windward Islands. Intermediate French West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago are mostly not taken into consideration. The Dutch and Spaniards refer to the entire group of the Leeward and Windward Islands as Windward Islands and call the islands offshore of the coast of Venezuela, in particular the Dutch islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao Leeward Islands. “To complete the confusion, some prestigious German cards use the names of the Leeward-and Windward Islands in the English sense, but at the same time use the German upper legislative Caribbean Islands under the wind” and Caribbean islands of the wind “in the Dutch Spanish sense. It is also misleading, if here and there, only Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao as the Netherlands Antilles are listed, because another threesome group of Caribbean Islands, over which the flag Holland, lies elsewhere, namely North in the area of the British Leeward Islands. Not to exist, Islands seem to many of the Mexican Caribbean, although is especially Cozumel is one of the main goals of Caribbean cruises at all.

There, it’s more that the islets still relatively rarely visited by cruise ships off the coast of Honduras remain unmentioned. There Roatan Iceland for Caribbean cruises but has some significance. The Americans make it easier for itself and divide the Caribbean into the Eastern Caribbean and the Western Caribbean (as viewed from Florida). All Caribbean Islands that not in a week-long Caribbean cruise can be controlled, are referred to as Southern Caribbean. Heino Tegeler