“It’s sand,” said a patron at the bar stools facing the cay. “No, this is the color of water,” says a friend leaning on the bar.

“You’re both wrong,” argued a bikini clad members of the trio, as we eavesdrop on nearby. “What makes the Caribbean the best place to be is a combination of the parts is perfect. … It was a perfect paradise.”

Millions of tourists who dare to region every year – many of them return visitors – is likely to agree. There are more than 7,000 islands are composed across 4020 kilometers in the Caribbean Sea islands. Jamaica, Cuba and the small islands of Barbados dripped into all offer the same sand, water and sun. But the experience of them will be completely different in each island.