By the Caribbean Journal staff

There’s a mystical quality to Diamant Beach in Martinique, a raw, rugged feeling, an exotic sensation.

Here on the southern coast of the French Caribbean island is a beach on the edge, in view of the famous Diamond Rock, a beach that seems to feel like its own island entirely.

It’s home to one of the hottest beach towns in the Caribbean — but when you walk through to the gleaming volcanic sand, everything else seems to vanish.

It’s just you and the waves, sitting under the palms, enjoying the perfect beach moment in Martinique.

— CJ