Curiosities

• 1. It’s definitely not the Dominican Republic.

• 2. Indigenous people still live here.

• 3. There are nine volcanoes.

• 4. Sulfur springs and black-sand beaches surround the capital city of Roseau.

• 5. Dominica has the second-largest boiling lake in the world.

• 6. The island’s “mountain chicken” doesn’t fly, it hops.

• 7. There’s a river for every day of the year.

• 8. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest was filmed here.

• 9. Your adrenaline levels don’t ever have to come down.10. Dominica has been practicing herbal medicine for centuries.

• 11. Whale watching is the island’s version of a spectator sport.