10 Exotic Locations You Wish You Could Win a Vacation to

Barbados

8. St. Lucia

St. Lucia

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St. Lucia boasts a number of amazing festivals throughout the year (most importantly, Carnival in mid-July—which is very similar to its rambunctious cousins in Trinidad and Tobago and Brazil) and also incredible opportunities to access Saint Lucian arts and literature: two Nobel laureates have hailed from the tiny island.