Picture of Ile à Rats or Isla Amiga just before arriving (Labadie, Haiti)

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Discovered by none other than Columbus, Amiga, or Ile à Rats as it is known now, is a small, precious island with unspoilt beach and translucent waters.
It seems like a green cloud hovering over a white line on the sea, then the cloud turns into a densely grown green cover of the island, and the white line is the beach that actually encircles the entire island. So small, in fact, that walking around it takes less than ten minutes. Waves on this island are not wild: they are broken off the coast by the surrounding reef. Despite the trees it is not easy to find a shadow on the beach, but the sea is so marvellous here that you are drawn in over and again. Snorkeling is exciting when you discover old cannons and cannonballs on the sandy bottom of the sea. On the beach, a fisherman might come up to you with ultra fresh fish fried on a fire on the beach, served on a leaf of one of the trees. This definitely is a very romantic place (pity for the boatman waiting to go back!) and it is not difficult to imagine why Columbus liked to come here to play around with his lover.
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