Its 60 islands and cays - six of them inhabited and most spaced fairly close together - make them collectively the "Sailing Capital of the World," and plenty of sailing charters can be booked to take advantage of that (including a number which can be accessed only by water).

Read more in Tripatini contributor Fyllis Hockman´s post Chilling on Tortola and Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands.

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