Three South Carolina islands were included in Travel + Leisure’s 10 best in the South, including one not normally seen on such lists. And South Carolina had the most islands on the list, with Florida ...

In an abandoned copra plantation on Astove, a tiny atoll in Seychelles, I find giant tortoises. Beneath the palm trees they look like the helmets of a hiding army platoon. The land, the domain too of ...

In the turquoise waters of the South China Sea, one country is challenging Beijing’s grip on one of the world’s most important maritime thoroughfares. Over four years, Vietnam has built out a series ...

As the strategic rivalry between China and the United States intensifies across the Indo-Pacific, the Taiwan Strait is often seen as the key flash point. Yet whether the regional balance holds or tips ...

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Island getaways have long captured our imagination. South Pacific landfalls with coral reefs and tropical beaches, European isles bristling with medieval castles, a remote cabin in the woods on a lake ...

Travel + Leisure readers’ favorite islands for 2025 represent many continents, cultures, and climates—including colorful reefs, tropical beaches with sea-weathered rocks, temperate forests, and ...

From glacier-fringed archipelagos to palm-lined atolls, islands come in every imaginable shape and size. But when it comes to sheer numbers of islands, not every country is created equal. The nations ...

Pitcairn Island is home to about 42 residents, many of whom are descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers. The island is accessible only by boat, with supply ships visiting a few times a year. In 2015, ...

Cruises have always been a vessel for exploration — a way for travelers to see the world. But over the past few years, these floating resorts have increasingly narrowed their focus to just one type of ...

For years, I had dreamt of visiting the Farallon Islands, a series of sharp rocky spires only 25 miles off the San Francisco coast. Mysterious and fascinating, they are often hidden by a dense curtain ...