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Florida: mangroves, beaches and wild wetlands
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The Sunshine State par excellence, Florida juts out as a long peninsula between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, fringed with beaches and palm trees. In the north and centre, Orlando concentrates the theme parks, led by Walt Disney World, that make it a world capital of entertainment. On the east coast, Miami pulses with Latin rhythms, the Art Deco of South Beach and electric nightlife. To the south sprawls the vast Everglades marsh, kingdom of alligators and mangroves, extended by the Keys archipelago all the way to Key West, the southernmost point of the country. On the Space Coast, the Kennedy Space Center still launches rockets. Between beaches, subtropical nature, space and amusement parks, Florida is a year-round destination under a warm, humid climate.
Everglades National Park was filmed in Technicolor for Nicholas Ray's “Wind Across the Everglades” (1958), starring Burl Ives.
The Everglades are the only place on Earth where American alligators and American crocodiles live side by side in the wild.
Leave Miami for the Florida Keys via the Overseas Highway: 180 km of bridges over the ocean all the way to Key West.
The best window runs from November to April: bearable heat, low humidity and outside the hurricane season, which lasts from June to November. A car is the most practical way to link beaches, the Keys and Orlando; domestic flights shorten the long haul between Miami and the north of the state. Tip: book Orlando parks and hotels well in advance. As for coverage, cities and highways are very well served, but the mobile signal weakens deep in the Everglades, on the isolated bridges of the Keys and in some mangrove areas; download your routes before heading in.