Oceania
Get a Personal Pick →Samoa
14 destinations
Water Alofaaga Blowholes
"Taga guides drop coconuts into the vents and the ocean fires them back like cannonballs."
City Apia
"Samoa's capital wakes to a police band marching the waterfront for the flag-raising."
Water Lake Lanoto'o
"Goldfish loosed in German colonial days still swirl in a highland crater lake."
Water Lalomanu Beach
"A mile of white sand, a lagoon of reef fish, and Nu'utele dark on the horizon."
Water Manase
"Thatch fales open to the sea, and a village that feasts every Sunday."
Water Manono Island
"An island with no cars, no dogs, and a grave of ninety-nine stones, one wife each."
Mountain Matavanu Crater
"A hand-kept trail climbs to the crater that buried villages; its keeper logs every visitor's country."
Mountain Mount Silisili
"The trail ends at a 1902 crater; the summit is another ninety minutes with no path."
Water Namua Island
"An islet with no electricity, one cluster of fales, and turtles in the lagoon."
Water Papaseea Sliding Rocks
"Sit on rock polished slick by the river, let go, and the mountain does the rest."
Water Piula Cave Pool
"Under the chapel, a lava tube pours cold spring water into a pool full of fish."
Wilderness Saleaula Lava Fields
"The lava filled a church to its windows yet parted around a single grave."
Water Savaia Giant Clam Sanctuary
"Swim to the flag: around eighty giant clams, the largest a metre across, wait below."
Water To Sua Ocean Trench
"The sea breathes through lava tubes into a thirty-metre swimming hole sunk in a garden."