Island of Flowers
Of all the French West Indies, Martinique is truly France in the Tropics, and we’re talking Gauloise cigarettes and gendarmes directing traffic. Martinique is one of the Caribbean’s most beautiful islands, with its white-sand beaches and lush rainforests. It is part of the Lesser Antilles and lies in the semitropical zone; the western shore faces the Caribbean, and its eastern shore fronts the more turbulent Atlantic.11
