Turks & Caicos Islands

A shallow, elliptical turquoise lagoon on Providenciales' western coast, dotted with tiny limestone islands and celebrated for the extraordinary blue gradient of its water.

The historic capital of the Turks and Caicos Islands on Grand Turk, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with 18th-century West Indian architecture and a salt-trade legacy.

A sheltered cove on Providenciales' northern shore, adjacent to Grace Bay, celebrated for its exceptional snorkelling, clear shallow water and relative seclusion from the busier beach strip.

A legendary crescent of powder-white sand on Providenciales' northeastern coast, fronted by shallow turquoise water and the world's third-largest fringing reef.

The largest and most geographically dramatic of the Turks and Caicos Islands, offering dramatic cliff-and-cave coastlines, indigenous cave systems, historic plantation ruins and vast saline flatlands.

A quiet, historically rich bay on southern Providenciales, where Christopher Columbus is believed to have made first landfall in the Americas in 1492.