Antigua and Barbuda pairs a hilly, deeply indented main island with its low, wild sister to the north. Antigua's coastline curls into hundreds of sheltered bays and reef-lined beaches, while its Georgian naval heritage survives in restored dockyards and hilltop forts. Barbuda is starkly different: empty pink-sand beaches, a vast lagoon and one of the world's great frigatebird colonies. Together they offer sailing, snorkelling, steel-band sunsets and an easygoing…
Nelson's Dockyard (UNESCO) in English Harbour is the world's last working Georgian dockyard — and HQ of one of the planet's biggest regatta weeks.
Antigua claims 365 beaches — one for every day of the year.
On Sunday evenings everyone heads up Shirley Heights for the steel-band sunset. An eSIM helps: Antigua Sailing Week schedules, the Barbuda ferry and picking the beach of the day.