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Fiji Vacation Guide: Paradise Islands, Resorts, and What to Know Before You Go

Fiji Vacation Guide: Paradise Islands, Resorts, and What to Know Before You Go

Fiji is the kind of place that looks photoshopped until you arrive and realize it's actually real. With 333 islands scattered across the South Pacific, Fiji offers everything from luxury overwater bungalows to backpacker beach villages — all wrapped ...

Micronesian Culture: Ancient Traditions, Stone Money, and Island Life in the Pacific

Micronesian Culture: Ancient Traditions, Stone Money, and Island Life in the Pacific

The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) — comprising the four island states of Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae — is a nation of 607 islands spread across more than 2.6 million km² of the western Pacific. Each state maintains its own distinct langu...

Kiribati: The Remote Pacific Atoll Nation on the Frontline of Climate Change

Kiribati: The Remote Pacific Atoll Nation on the Frontline of Climate Change

Kiribati (pronounced "KEER-ih-bahss") is one of the most remote nations on Earth — 33 coral atolls and raised reef islands scattered across 3.5 million square kilometers of the central Pacific Ocean, an area larger than India. With a total land area ...

Vanuatu After Dark: Kava Bars, Fire Dancing, and Island Nightlife in the South Pacific

Vanuatu After Dark: Kava Bars, Fire Dancing, and Island Nightlife in the South Pacific

If you're looking for thumping nightclubs and bottle service, Vanuatu isn't your destination. If you want to drink a muddy, mildly narcotic root beverage in a dark outdoor bar surrounded by locals, watch fire dancers perform on a black-sand beach, an...

The Galápagos Islands: Darwin, Evolution, and One of the World's Great Wildlife Encounters

The Galápagos Islands: Darwin, Evolution, and One of the World's Great Wildlife Encounters

In September 1835, a 26-year-old naturalist named Charles Darwin stepped ashore on the Galápagos Islands and began making observations that would, over the following decades, reshape humanity's understanding of life on Earth. Nearly 200 years later...

Taiwan in 7 Days: The Island That Fits an Entire World Into One Trip

Taiwan in 7 Days: The Island That Fits an Entire World Into One Trip

Taiwan is one of those destinations that people put off because they're not quite sure what it is — not fully China, not quite Japan, its own complex and fascinating thing. Then they go, and they can't stop talking about it. The food alone justifies ...

Canada is Not What You Think: 10 Things That Genuinely Surprise Visitors

Canada is Not What You Think: 10 Things That Genuinely Surprise Visitors

Canada has a branding problem. Not a bad one — "nice, clean, polite, cold, hockey" is perfectly respectable — but it understates the country dramatically. Canada is enormous, geologically weird, historically complex, and home to some of the world's m...

Where to Stay in Samoa: Beach Fales, Resorts, and the Authentic Polynesian Experience

Where to Stay in Samoa: Beach Fales, Resorts, and the Authentic Polynesian Experience

Accommodation in Samoa is unlike anywhere else in the Pacific — and the beach fale is the reason why. This open-air, thatched-roof structure on the sand is Samoa's signature stay, offering something no hotel chain can match: falling asleep to the sou...

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