10 top Caribbean secrets

This isolated beach is a place to wrap a Do Not Disturb sign around your waist and get in some serious beach combing on an uninhabited island with an eight-mile-long soft, sandy beach.

The coiling snake of asphalt that is Route de la Trace curls around bamboo forests and botanical gardens. Rising into the clouds on most days, the still-active Mont Pelee sits at the end of the road.

Turtles are what most divers yearn to see, but you may find that the triangle-shaped box fish, hunting morays or schools of technicolor butterfly fish really steal the show.

Getting stung by a "killer bee" (or four) is a rite of passage in Nevis. Involving rum and honey, the "killer bee" cocktail is the most popular drink on the island, and one that locals will tell you is prepared properly only at Sunshine's.

This is what most of Aruba would have looked like in the 1800s -- a desert wilderness of abandoned gold mines, massive cacti, wandering goats, limestone caves and the odd mud-and-grass farmhouse.

The aptly named Valley of Desolation is filled with bubbling mineral pools, fast-flowing rivers and powerful jets of steam shooting out of the earth -- and far removed from the mainstream Caribbean experience.

You could find yourself taking in a traditional hog roast with a Cuban farming family, touring the orchards of fruit farmers in Ciego de Avila or chatting with workers at the sharp end of the Cuban economy.

Knowledgeable guides at this nature center amid dense rainforest and mangrove swamps, can help you identify more than 400 species, including scarlet ibises, toucans, parrots, yellow orioles and the rare oilbird.

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• Goat water may sound unappetizing, but this cross between Irish stew and oxtail soup is delicious

(CNN) -- Butter-colored sands.

Fluttering palm trees.

Cinematic sunsets.

We all understand the appeal of the Caribbean, but with visitor numbers rising year after year -- according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization more than 25 million people visited the region last year -- is there anything left of the older Caribbean?

The following destinations aren't the easiest to reach -- expect twin-prop planes and a distinct lack of road signs and rest stops -- but the quieter nooks of the Carib are worth seeking out.

Secret Road

Route de la Trace (Martinique)

An ostentatious slice of the Cote d'Azur that's floated off to the Caribbean.

That's how most visitors perceive the French territory of Martinique.

But take the N3 road north and you'll soon be far away from the bling and Burgundy set.

Departing from Fort de France in the direction of Morne Rouge, the road runs along the volcanic Pitons du Carbet with sign-posted hiking trails radiating off the main route.

Otherwise known as the Route de la Trace, this coiling snake of asphalt was originally built in the 1600s by Jesuits, the road they toiled to create curls around bamboo forests, small botanical gardens, ferns and even a small size replica of the Sacré-Coeur Basilica from the motherland.

At the end of the road, rising high into the clouds on most days, sits the still active Mont Pelee, which destroyed the entire town of St. Pierre when it last erupted back in 1902.

The rocky climb takes around three hours but the view from the top of the rim over the dimpled green peaks of the island is, on a clear day, one of the finest in the Caribbean.

And you'll almost certainly have it all to yourself.

Route de la Trace, Highway N3; Martinique

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Secret "locals" experience

Meet the People tour (Cuba)

Township tours, where tourists get to look at poor people through the windows of a minibus, are often patronizing.

The charity Traidcraft, however, have bucked this trend with its Meet the People tour of lesser known parts of Cuba.

Ostensibly designed to show the consequences of the long standing U.S. trade embargo on the island (and the ingenuity of the methods used to get around it), in reality the tour is an instant fast track into the lives of Cubans who you simply won't meet poolside at the resorts.

You could find yourself taking in a traditional hog roast with a Cuban farming family, touring the orchards of fruit farmers in Ciego de Avila or simply chatting with the workers at the sharp end of the Cuban economy.

It's a tour that is, thankfully, short on predictable snapshot moments yet fascinating in its ability to introduce you to the everyday side of an island that has long been forced to mend and adapt to some of the world's hardest trade restrictions.

Saddel Skedaddle , The Cycle Hub, Ouseburn Regeneration Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; +44 (0)191 265 1110

Secret National Park

Arikok National Park (Aruba)

You'd be forgiven for thinking you were somewhere in Australia's Northern Territory were you to wake up on the northeastern corner of Aruba.

Here you'll find Arikok: quite simply a different universe.

A desert wilderness of abandoned gold mines, massive cacti, wandering goats, limestone caves and the odd mud-and-grass ancient farmhouse, this is a trip through time to what most of Aruba would have looked like in the 1800s.

This was a time when many Caribbean islands were all but ignored by colonists, thought of as mosquito- and rattlesnake-filled death traps.

Hiking (you'll want to carry plenty of water) on the 34 kilometers of self-guided trails through the park gets you close to all kinds of bizarre and lonesome sights in this harsh environment.

These might include Arawak Indian rock drawings and burrowing owls; or it might simply amount to the relief of downing an ice cold bottle of local Balashi beer from your cooler on one of the deserted sandy beaches.

Arikok National Park , San Fuego 70, Aruba; +297 585 1234

Secret cocktail

The Killer Bee (Nevis)

As with all the most authentic Carib eateries, Sunshine's Beach Bar and Grill on Pinney's Beach in tiny Nevis doesn't look like it'll be winning any Michelin stars any time soon.

The most basic of huts, with a couple of picnic tables outside, the food, mainly spicy shrimp and fresh lobster at knock down prices, is a delight.

But the real thrill comes when you order a "killer bee" cocktail -- the most popular drink on the island, and one that locals will tell you is prepared properly only at Sunshine's.

Involving rum and honey, the secret element comes from all manner of other ingredients that may or may not include black pepper and nutmeg.

The waiters here will tell you that none of the Internet recipes that claim to have figured out the secrets have got it right so far.

Poured out of a milk container into a plastic cup, the amber glow of the drink seems fairly harmless at first.

But if you want to drink like the locals, and probably have a sore head the following morning, getting stung by a killer bee (or four) is a rite of passage in Nevis.

Sunshine's Beach Bar and Grill , Pinney's Beach, Charlestown, Saint Kitts and Nevis; +1 869 469 5817

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Secret beach

Klein Curaçao (Curaçao)

A two-hour sail on the turquoise waters off the mainland, Klein Curaçao is a place to wrap a Do Not Disturb sign around your waist and get involved in some serious beach combing on a pancake flat, uninhabited island with an eight-mile-long soft sandy beach -- and very little else.

You can walk along the beach to gaze at the ancient shipwreck or walk around an abandoned lighthouse.

Or just hang out on the beach.

Either way, the company will be limited to a handful of local fisherman and perhaps the odd school of dolphins who have a habit of following the boats that bring visitors here.

Klein Curaçao , Island 2 hours off the coast of Curaçao

Secret birding hub

Asa Wright Nature Centre (Trinidad and Tobago)

Little visited by tourists and regarded as the industrial hub of the Caribbean, Trinidad is a major destination for birdwatchers who generally have this former coffee plantation to themselves.

A 200-acre reserve in the island's northern mountain range, the Asa Wright Nature Centre is now a dense mass of rainforest and mangrove swamps, alive with more than 400 species, including scarlet ibises, toucans, parrots, hummingbirds and yellow orioles.

Guides are highly knowledgeable and even if the ultra-rare oilbird (one of the main draws for birders) doesn't emerge, you can head back to the Edwardian-era lodge, a good place for a cocktail as the sun dips below the mountains.

Asa Wright Nature Centre , Blanchisseuse Road, Arima, Trinidad; +1 868 667 4655

Secret hike

Valley of Desolation (Dominica)

Filled with bubbling mineral pools, fast-flowing rivers and powerful jets of steam shooting out of the earth, the aptly named Valley of Desolation is as far as you can get from a mainstream Caribbean experience.

Located on the still little visited former British colony of Dominica, a hike to the valley involves trekking through a dimly lit forest of 100 foot tall "gummy gum" trees, colossal vines and barely noticeable trails before you reach the aptly named Boiling Lake.

Peering down from above, the gray-green waters bubble and hiss like a boiling kettle.

The second largest of its kind in the world, this fierce and natural wonder hardly offers the cooling effect you might hope for after a steep 16-mile hike (it can be done in one full day), but respite is at hand if you hang up your boots at the nearby Papillote Wilderness retreat.

Its seven rooms in the hills have hot springs just outside.

Valley of Desolation , Morne Trois Pitons National Park, Dominica

Secret diving adventure

Some of the world's clearest water. No wonder he likes it here.

Turtle diving (Bonaire)

Protected for more than 30 years, the entire coastline around the Dutch territory of Bonaire has some of the clearest waters and most undisturbed coral reef on the planet.

The island was ranked number one in the Caribbean in the 2013 Global Sustainable Tourist Review, scoring a maximum "green" rating for the condition and maintenance of its marine life, nature, landscape and coastline.

Turtles are the main draw.

You're all but guaranteed to see these graceful creatures gliding above the pristine white sands while parrotfish lurk among the orange cup coral.

Swim deeper and you'll find sea fans and anemones swaying with the cool current.

Hawksbill turtles are what divers yearn to see the most, but you may find that the triangle-shaped box fish, hunting morays or schools of technicolor butterfly fish really steal the show.

Bonaire Turtles , Kralendijk, Bonaire; +599 717 2225

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Secret dish

Goat water (Montserrat)

The name may be a little unappetizing, but try a bite of this cross between Irish stew and oxtail soup and you may start wondering why the national dish of tiny Montserrat isn't better known.

Known as the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean (a reference to the Irish heritage of the early settlers), Montserrat hit global headlines back in 1997 when the Soufriere volcano erupted, destroying the capital city Plymouth and making the southern two-thirds of the island uninhabitable.

Life for the 6,000 remaining residents goes on, however, and the northern section of Montserrat remains a gloriously untouched piece of the Caribbean pre-mass tourism.

Tiny B&Bs, sleepy villages and verdant forests typify the island.

An essential local experience is lining up for a bowl of goat water (served with a crusty bread roll) at the tiny pale yellow shack known as the Emerald Rose Restaurant.

There are competing claims all over the island as to who sells the best version of the dish, with secret ingredients and family recipes for making the perfect bowl legion.

All that most chefs will reveal is that the dish contains onions, chives, black pepper, garlic, thyme, thickening flour, gravy browning and, of course, goat meat.

Whatever else goes into it remains privileged information -- obsessively guarded by families.

Emerald Rose Restaurant , St John's, Montserrat; +1 491 5941; dinner by reservations only

Secret Shop

L'Atelier Turquoise (Grenadines)

Using silver and precious stones from across the globe, Annie-France Dulac sells her handcrafted jewelery from this bijou store next to the vegetable market by the harbor in Clifton, the miniscule main town on Union Island, a five-square-mile outpost in the Grenadines.

The low key shop sells all kinds of authentic artisan creations, such as Vincentian banana leaf paintings, white cedar sculptures, acrylics from Haiti and all manner of colorful paintings by local artists.

For a souvenir that doesn't look like it could have been bought in the airport duty free lounge, Dulac's store sells high quality goods better suited to the mantelpiece than the bottom of a drawer back home.

L'Atelier Turquoise , Clifton Harbour, Union Island; +1 784 485 8734

Sahara 'spiral' baffles viewers

In 1997, D.A.ST. Arteam created Desert Breath, a one-million-square-foot art installation in the expanse of desert near the Red Sea in Egypt. Though since weathered, the artwork still remains today.

This year, many Google Earth users questioned what this giant spiral in the Sahara Desert was. The Google image demonstrates how the site has deteriorated in recent years.

When completed in 1997, Desert Breath had a body of water as its center point. Today, the water has completely evaporated.

Desert Breath is made up of a series of conical dips and protrusions. It took D.A.S.T. Arteam nine months to build.

The desert isn't the most hospitable landscape for long-term art projects. Still, Danae Stratou, one of the artists behind Desert Breath, believes it will remain another 50 years or so.

D.A.ST. Arteam, who created the art installation, photograph their shadows against the backdrop of the work.

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(CNN) -- Often, artists create work with a view to immortality; if they can't live on, perhaps their creations can. Danae Stratou, on the other hand, knows one of her seminal pieces has a death sentence.

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In 1997, she joined with industrial designer Alexandra Stratou and architect Stella Constantinides to create a breathtaking spiral made up of alternating conical dips and protrusions in the Sahara Desert, near the Egyptian town of El Gouna just off the Red Sea. The project, known as Desert Breath, spreads over one million square feet of sand.

While the installation is still visible from the sky, there are marked signs of weathering. A body of water that once acted as the work's center point has since evaporated. The earthen mounds have flattened over time, and cracks can be seen on the overall surface of the piece. For the artists (known collectively as D.A.ST. Arteam), Desert Breath's impending demise is the whole point.

"Through its slow disintegration, it's become an instrument to measure the passage of time," says Stratou. And as time has gone on, she adds, she finds she enjoys the piece more and more.

"The more time passes, the more it becomes fragile, but it also has developed a more organic relationship with the site. When it was just made, you could feel the connection to the shape, but now, it looks like it wasn't made by human beings at all, and this is something we like a lot."

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Through its slow disintegration, it's become an instrument to measure the passage of time

Danae Stratou, D.A.ST. Arteam

In fact, to many users of Google Earth, the site doesn't look man made. Before knowing what it was, several commenters speculated it was anything from the imprint of an alien spaceship to the gateway to a parallel universe. A recent discussion on the Google Earth forum led to the work's rediscovery, almost 17 years to the day after it was first built.

"It's surprising that so many years later it would get all this attention, but on the other hand, sometimes things find their own moment," Stratou speculates.

"Perhaps people can appreciate this kind of thing more now than they could back then, when they were caught up in making money or being famous. Today, we're in a financial crisis, and perhaps Desert Breath reflects a new humility people feel, or a new need to connect to nature."

D.A.ST. Arteam spent nine months constructing the work, with the help of a local construction crew who donated the tools and manpower to build the site.

Danae Stratou (center) with the other members of D.A.S.T. Arteam on the Desert Breath site in 1997

"I was totally cut off from Western civilization -- though I found that a positive thing. It was a huge change in the life I had led up until then. I woke up at four every morning and worked on the site through to sunset. There weren't mobile phones back then, so I couldn't even speak to my family in Greece," she recalls.

There were times when it seemed the shelf life for the installation would be cut short. In the early stages of construction, the town of El Gouna experienced the worst floods it had seen in 60 years. Five years after it was completed, the government decided to build a new road that cut through the site.

"We had to go back and negotiate with the governor, who nicely agreed to take the road back a few meters. For me, it just showed that the biggest danger is people. I think people are more likely to destroy it than nature itself."

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World's hottest new surf spot?

The Atlantic coast of Morocco is becoming known as a world-class surfing destination.

For many years, fishing was the major industry in the town of Essaouira. Lately, the stocks in the ocean have depleted, causing many local fisherman to struggle financially.

Many in the fishing industry have instead turned their focus to the influx of surfers to the region.

Essaouira can be extremely windy, which makes it an ideal spot for water sports.

In the past, surfing in the region was unregulated. Lately, surfing schools are striving to follow global regulations, keen to establish Morocco as a recognized surfing destination.

There's more to Essaouira than surfing. The historic town is known for its Gnawa, or Gnaoua, music, which originated in West Africa. Pictured, members of a Gnaoua troupe parade along a street in Essaouira ahead of the Gnaoua World Music Festival.

Moroccan horsemen ride along Essaouira's beachat the 2012 Gnaoua World Music Festival.

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Essaouira, Morocco (CNN) -- For many tourists, Morocco is best known for its historic cities, rugged landscape and sumptuous cuisine. But for surfers, it's fast becoming known for the crashing waves that pound its Atlantic coastline.

For decades, fish has been big business in Essaouira, the charming, former Portuguese settlement on the west coast of Morocco. As stocks have depleted, however, the locals have started to shift their focus to more lucrative industries. While the seas no longer possess the riches they once did, for many inhabitants, they still represent a lifeline -- only now the biggest catch is the tourists riding the waves.

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Abdullah Aitdir is one of those who have taken advantage of this business opportunity. His father ran a grocery store in the nearby village of Taghazout, which Aitdir has converted into a surf school.

"Surfing is more profitable," he explains. "Even if it's seasonal, it's still good."

In recent years he has seen a move towards a more organized, better regulated surfing industry.

"It used to be chaos," says Aitdir. "Everyone would just come and try to [enter] the surfing industry without paying any taxes, and there were no regulations. Now, there are more rules," he adds.

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What's with all the tumbleweeds?

• Tumbleweeds began invading neighborhoods in Colorado last week


• The dried plants are piling up in doorways and driveways, residents say


• High winds are being blamed for the large number of tumbleweeds

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(CNN) -- This isn't your classic Western movie where you'll find a solitary tumbleweed rolling through a desolate landscape.

These are neighborhoods around Colorado Springs, where a strange takeover of tumbleweeds started last week. The clusters of twisted foliage are causing a lot of problems, says Mahkya Askew, a resident of Colorado Springs.

Askew was driving with his father, who is visiting from the East Coast, when they came across a large pileup of tumbleweeds in his neighborhood.

Tumbleweeds pile high in Mahkya Askew's neighborhood

"It looked like a scene from the 'Wizard of Oz,'" he said.

Askew, who works for the U.S. military, has been living in the area for 14 years and said he has never seen tumbleweeds like this before.

"They usually collect on the side of my yard, but lately they've been piling up on top of each other, and they can get as tall as a six-foot tall fence," he explained.

Whitey Grant's neighborhood is littered with tumbleweeds

Unusually high winds are blamed for the influx of tumbleweeds into neighborhoods south of Colorado Springs, according to CNN's affiliate KCNC-TV.

Askew said they've definitely become a nuisance for him and others in his area. "I don't even know what they are or what they break off from," he said.

Tumbleweeds can be any sort of dried up plant that, once matured, breaks off from its roots and tumbles away with the wind.

They have collected against people's homes, forming makeshift walls and blocking sidewalks and driveways. Colorado residents are using rakes and even snowplows to clean up these pesky, dried plants, especially because they can pose a fire hazard during dry conditions.

Grant and her daughter ran into one inside a Walmart

Whitney Grant, 27, also a Colorado Springs resident, says tumbleweeds are a familiar sight. But she was surprised to find them barricading people inside their homes and even finding their way inside buildings. She and her daughter found a straggling tumbleweed inside a local Walmart over the weekend, in the electronics aisle.

Grant said her daughter, who is 3, knew that tumbleweed didn't belong indoors. "She said, 'Look mommy!' And she looked at me like she wanted me to fix the situation."

"My friends who visit are always shocked to see them," she said. "There was someone who left their garage open (on Friday), and it was filled with them," she said.

As funny as this may all sound, Askew said that the tumbleweed situation has gotten pretty serious. "It becomes a problem as you are driving; they can scratch your car. They can get stuck under your car, too, and you can hear it dragging underneath you," he said.

An active runner, he's found himself in the past few days having to jump over tumbleweeds more than a foot tall.

"They can be huge, and they are really prickly," he said.

"I'm from the East, so when my family comes to visit me, they get a crack out of this. It's like a Western movie, but it is really bad."

Blindsided by the reality of Obamacare

• Sen. Mitch McConnell says that four years after the Affordable Care Act was signed, many Americans still struggle


• McConnell points to President's repeated claims that it wouldn't disrupt people's existing health care plans


• He tells of several constituents who are "reeling from that broken promise"

Editor's note: Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is the Senate Republican Leader. You can follow him on Twitter @McConnellPress

(CNN) -- Four years ago today, President Barack Obama signed Obamacare into law, pledging that Americans could keep their health care plans and their doctors and that their coverage would be "more secure and stable" than before.

As the horror stories continue to roll in, however, the emptiness of those promises and the human toll of this deeply misguided experiment have become increasingly difficult for Democrats to ignore.

Consider Angela Strobel, a mother of five girls from Owensboro, Kentucky.

Angela was perfectly happy with the insurance and the doctor she had before Obamacare. She also had an ironclad assurance from the President that she wouldn't have to sacrifice either one if his health care plan became law. Now she finds herself among the growing group of Americans who've been shell-shocked by the reality.

The fact-checkers may have declared the President's "you can keep your plan" pledge last year's "lie of the year." But Angela and millions like her will be reeling from that broken promise for years.

It won't be easy. Angela not only lost her insurance, she also lost a trusted family doctor to Obamacare. In a perfect summary of modern liberalism, one of the billing clerk's for Kentucky's Obamacare exchange told Angela that since she now qualifies for Medicaid, she'd be breaking the law if she tried to pay more out of her own pocket just to keep her old doctor. Medicaid rules forbid it.

The upshot: for Angela and her family, it's either Medicaid or a monthly premium increase of nearly $1,000.

Tragically, stories likes Angela's are playing out in households all across the country. And the promises that were made to sell Obamacare — that it wouldn't disrupt people's previous health care arrangements and that premiums would go down — are now being exposed for the cheap and deceptive sales pitch they were.

It may be tempting for some to brush all this aside as standard politics. But it's hard to think of anything even comparable to the scope of the deception involved in selling this law.

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The President made repeated, explicit pledges that no one would lose their doctor or their plans as a result of this law. For two years, he did everything he could to assure Americans that they had nothing to worry about.

Yet now, as millions of Americans speak out about their frustrations and heartbreak, he's not even listening.

Instead, leading Democrats have engaged in a despicable campaign to discredit the victims. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid labeled people like Angela liars, while other Democrats have downplayed statistics that cast it in an unfavorable light.

As for the President, he seems more interested in promoting his NCAA bracket and talking up Obamacare's elusive virtues on satirical talk shows like "Between the Ferns."

For the Washington Democrats who gave us Obamacare, in other words, these stories about lost care, lost doctors, and higher costs aren't problems to be resolved, but political obstacles to be deflected.

But there's only so much they can do to tune out or brush aside the cascading impact of Obamacare.

In recent weeks, we've heard calamitous reports of Obamacare patients being denied access to doctors, hospitals and premium cancer care centers.

A recent analysis by the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. found that only a fraction of the biggest local hospitals in a given coverage area will accept Obamacare patients. An Associated Press study found that only four of the 19 cancer centers it surveyed would give Obamacare patients access to its cancer care through the new Obamacare exchanges in their states.

This is progress?

Don't tell that to Terri Durheim of Enid, Oklahoma. She's another mom who's been blindsided by the realities of Obamacare. Terri told CNN that her son has a serious heart condition, but will now have to travel more than an hour to find a pediatric cardiologist who's covered under her new plan. She doesn't even want to think about what she'll have to do in case of an emergency.

"Obviously we'd have to pay out of pocket and go here in town," she said, "but that defeats the purpose of insurance."

Terri's story raises a key question: what was the point of all this? Those who voted for Obamacare cling to the claim that they've increased access. But as report after report has shown, increasing the ranks of the insured doesn't necessarily guarantee access. It certainly didn't for Angela and Terri.

For many, the answer to all this is obvious: Admit that Obamacare is a failure, repeal it, and work together on bipartisan, patient-centered solutions that correct the deficiencies in our previous system. But clearly, those who supported this law still need convincing. Four years after Obamacare was signed into law, they still can't bring themselves to admit the reality all around us.

That needs to change. Obamacare's human toll is getting worse every day. We can do better. For the sake of people like Angela Strobel and Terri Durheim, we must.

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The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sen. Mitch McConnell.