French Islands — Photo Credit: Rajvinder Singh

Saint Martin consists of many unique features.

For one, the Leeward Island in the Caribbean Sea is actually separated into two parts. One side is Dutch and known as Sint Maarten. Then there is the French island Saint Martin, which is a former overseas département of Guadeloupe but is now an overseas collectivity of the French Republic.

The island boasts 37 beaches to suit your taste in aquatic activities: deep-sea diving, surfing, wakeboarding, windsurfing, kitesurfing, or just lazing the day away on the sand.

One of the oddest and most popular attractions is watching planes land at nearby Princess Juliana International Airport on the Dutch side. The proximity of the runway to the beach makes for a terrifying but certainly different activity.

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