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Anguilla built a luxury reputation deliberately. But there are guesthouses too, and they are the better value.

Caves with Arawak petroglyphs, a plantation house from 1787, and the island's boat-building yards.

The island has more restaurants per head than almost anywhere in the Caribbean. Here is what is actually local.

Anguilla has almost no rainy season, but it does have a hurricane season and a very real price cliff.

The island is 16 miles long, so nothing is far. This week alternates beaches, boats and the interior.

Anguilla is 16 miles long and has 33 beaches. Here is which one to pick, and when.

Island Harbour, Scilly Cay, salt ponds and empty beaches — the half of the island most visitors skip.

Ten days at the end of July: boat races, calypso competitions, J'ouvert before dawn and a parade of troupes.

Ten minutes by boat from Sandy Ground: an island barely bigger than a football pitch, with one restaurant.

Fifteen thousand people and around a hundred restaurants. The explanation is partly deliberate policy.

They share a channel and almost nothing else. Which one suits you, and how to combine them.

The longest-running independent music festival in the Caribbean, held on the sand at a bar built from driftwood.

Not cricket. The island races wooden sloops built by hand, without engines, and the whole country stops to watch.