Photo Gallery: Island Getaways

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-26 17:13:21

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Bora-Bora

Photograph by Tim McKenna

Bora-Bora has so many natural advantages it deserves its long-held reputation as the South Pacific’s loveliest island retreat. “It’s everything a Polynesian island should be—blue lagoon, sand-fringed motus, soaring peaks,” says Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler.

Excerpt from "A Year of Islands: Eden Found" in the May/June 2004 issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-26 17:13:34

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Bali Dancers

Photograph by Dallas and John Heaton, Aurora

The tiny Hindu island of Bali is one of the world’s few remaining societies where modernity and tradition coexist in harmony. With several hundred dance troupes on the island, dance is at the very center of Balinese life.

Excerpt from "Return to Paradise" in the October 2002 issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-26 17:14:04

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Philippines: Palawan Island

Photograph by Christian Kober, Photolibrary

An outrigger canoe glides across crystal waters off Palawan Island in the Philippines. It’s an island of Jules Verne-like vistas, where giant eagles soar, rare seashells litter quiet beaches, and exotic orchids bloom in dark mahogany forests.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-26 17:14:18

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Falkland Islands: Birds

Photograph by Frans Lanting, National Geographic

Black-browed albatrosses nest by the thousands in the remote Falkland Islands. With few crowds or restrictions, this archipelago comprising 778 islands and islets 300 miles (483 kilometers) off the east coast of Patagonia provide an intimate wildlife experience that offers an alternative to that of the more famous Galápagos.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-26 17:14:30

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Palau Rock Islands

Photograph by Andrea Booher, Getty Images

Teeming with exotic marine life and Crayola-colored reefs, the more than 300 islands of Palau, in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Guam, feature some of the world’s best dive sites and the unique foliage-frosted Rock Islands. Palau is also a living World War II museum—WWII wrecks lie submerged just off the Rock Islands.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-26 17:14:42

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New York: Thousand Islands

Photograph by Will Van Overbeek, National Geographic

Kids dive in at Thousand Island Park, a historic community on New York’s Wellesley Island. The community was built more than a century ago, during the area’s heyday as a gilded summer retreat. The Thousand Islands archipelago straddles the U.S.-Canada border in the St. Lawrence Seaway.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-26 17:14:54

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Hawaii: Waimoku Falls

Photograph by Brandon Morris, Your Shot

The secluded Waimoku Falls in Maui’s Haleakala National Park is a two-mile (three-kilometer) hike from the Road to Hana, the island’s most popular scenic drive. Haleakala National Park centers around the active, but not currently erupting, Haleakala Crater.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-26 17:15:06

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Easter Island: Moai

Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic

Easter Island is set apart by the wondrous stone statues, called moai, that silently watch over the island’s serene landscape. They were carved from locally quarried tufa—a soft volcanic stone—between 800 and 1722, when a Dutch explorer discovered the island. The average moai is 14 feet (4 meters) tall and weighs ten tons.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-26 17:15:17

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Cuba

Photograph by Marc Pokempner, Getty Images

Paper birds festoon a street during the Santiago de Cuba carnaval, in Cuba, the largest island in the West Indies. “Cuba’s allure lies not just in beautiful vistas and beaches, or its colonial history, or even in the spectacle of its entrapment in the past,” writes Jon Bowermaster. “Its real enchantment is in its optimistic people who carry on, and even celebrate life, in the midst of what appears to many as a failed political and economic experiment.”

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-26 17:15:29

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Puerto Rico: Mar Chiquita Beach

Photograph by Keiji Iwai, Getty Images

Though beaches like Mar Chiquita Beach draw Boogie-boarders and other watersports lovers, Puerto Rico also offers lots of landlubber entertainment in its main city, San Juan. Roam the largest fort built by the Spanish in the Americas, go antiquing for wooden santos, and sample traditional Puerto Rican dishes like chicken chicharrones.

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