A small Hindu island of Bali is one of the few companies in the world where modernity and tradition side by side in harmony. Several hundreds of dance companies on the island, dancing is the very center of life balinese.

A canoe glides over the crystal waters of the island of Palawan in the Philippines. It is an island of Jules Verne-like funds, where the giant eagles soar, the trash from the beaches calm rare shells and exotic orchids in the forests of dark mahogany.

Black-browed albatrosses nest by the thousands in the Falkland Islands at a distance. With few crowds or restrictions make this archipelago of 778 islands and islets 300 miles (483 kilometers) off the east coast of Patagonia a wildlife experience that offers an intimate alternative to that of the most famous of the Galapagos.

Full of exotic marine life, and Crayola-colored cliffs, more than 300 islands of Palau in the Pacific southwest of Guam, featuring some of the best diving spots in the world and unique satin leaf rock islands. Palau is also a living museum of the Second World War, World War II shipwrecks in the waters near the islands of rock.

Children immersed in the Thousand Islands Park, a historical society in New York from Wellesley Island. Community was built over a century earlier, during peak of the region as a summer retreat golden. The Thousand Islands archipelago straddles the Canada-US border in the St. Lawrence Seaway St. Lawrence.

The difference Waimoku Falls in Haleakala National Park on Maui is one. Two miles (three kilometers) of hiking trails to Hana, the most popular tourist route to the Haleakala National Park island centers around the active but not currently erupting Crater, Haleakala.

Easter Island is inserted by the beautiful stone statues, called Moai, that silently watches over serene landscape of the island. They were carved in tuff locally mined, a soft volcanic rock between 800 and 1722, when Dutch explorers discovered the island. The Moai average of 14 feet (4 meters) and weighs ten tons.

Birds of a paper festoon street during the carnival of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, the largest island in the Caribbean. "Allure of Cuba is not only the beautiful landscapes and beaches, or its colonial history, or even the sight of his capture in the past," writes Jon Bowermaster. "The real magic is in the optimistic people that exercise, and even to celebrate life in the midst of what appears to many as a failed experiment, politically and economically."

Although the beaches and the beach of Mar Chiquita draw Boogie-boarders and other water sports, Puerto Rico also offers plenty of entertainment landlubber with its main city, San Juan. Roam the largest fortress built by the Spanish in the Americas, go antique wood Santos, and taste traditional dishes such as chicken cracklings Puerto Rico.

Soft pastel twilight cloaks Castelsardo is a fortified Hilltown on the northwest coast of Sardinia. Yet little is known, in the majority of Americans, on the north coast of Sardinia is in a corner of the Mediterranean, and adored by Italians in-the-know Europeans.

A scene from Jurassic? No, just one disc type clock Lord Howe Island, located off the east coast of Australia. Based in Sydney sailor Ian Kiernan calls "Australia's own Galapagos", the island was completely isolated except for a bat devoid of mammals native to the creation of European explorers in 1788.