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Top five destinations for 2006
Tripso.com reader's picks for the places to go now

It's the end of December, and travel journalists everywhere are penning their New Year's predictions. Tripso is no exception. We've got five great destinations for 2006, and we didn't need a crystal ball to find them. We asked the true expert -- our readers. Did your favorite "hot spot" make the list? We asked more than 1,300 loyal readers of the Tripso forums to help us forecast the "hip" and "in" places for 2006. Here are the results.

# 3 --> Southern Caribbean. One of the most interesting cruise itineraries is the “Southern Route,” which gives travelers a taste of the real Caribbean with visits to islands like Aruba, Barbados, St. Lucia and St. Kitts, among others. While popular with the cruise lines, these islands also make for a wonderful land-based vacation. Aruba has the cooling trade winds and could use a little help with its tourism. (Note to our readers: Don’t boycott Aruba. It is really a gem.) Barbados is home to some of the friendliest people you will find anywhere, and their famous flying fish are nothing short of mesmerizing.