Multi-cultural Miami offers white sands, ocean breezes, year-round sunshine, and one of the hottest nightlife scenes in America. Miami's trendy South Beach also packs the largest concentration of Art Deco buildings in the world.

The greatest influence upon the city’s modern-day personality came with the influx of Cuban refugees that began in the 1960s. They settled in an area dubbed Little Havana, where salsa music blares, men play dominoes in the park and breezes carry strong whiffs of café con leche. Miami’s overall cuisine and arts scene sway Cuban, blended with other local Caribbean influence. Floribbean cooking, a Miami invention, fuses Florida and island technique and products into one of the most popular styles to have hit in many decades.

Heading north, stylish Fort Lauderdale offers beautiful beaches, 300 miles of canals and the largest outlet mall in Florida.