Pristine beaches, lush green valleys, soaring mountain peaks: The guidebook images that depict the Marquesas Islands as a tropical paradise are still accurate today, more than a century after French ...

Reporting from Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands — The tale is told that 23-year-old Herman Melville jumped ship when he visited the Marquesas Islands in 1842. Melville, who would eventually write the ...

Recent botanical exploration efforts in the rugged Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) have increased the known flora of the archipelago by an impressive 20 percent. Field research projects have ...

The road snaked along the coast as a narrow track hewn into the cliffs, hundreds of feet above the restless ocean. As I gripped the wheel of our rented four-wheel-drive, crawling along in first gear, ...

In July, UNESCO revealed the newest additions to its World Heritage List—and the remote Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific made the cut. In honor of this important decision, Windstar Cruises is ...

Wearing choker necklaces made of boar tusks, traditionally tattooed Marquesan men fiercely grunt performing the “Pig Dance” alongside a hallowed banyan tree where cannibals buried skulls of ...

Jeff Hill, a senior editor for Weissmann Travel Reports, a sister publication of Travel Weekly, visited the Marquesas. His report follows: n a place as remote as the Marquesas Islands, people don't ...

The Marquesas are a beautiful, remote stretch of islands in the South Pacific. And, as of last weekend, they are also a UNESCO World Heritage site. The latest UNESCO convention added 24 new properties ...

Eleven new sites have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List in recognition of their natural or cultural significance. A Pacific archipelago, a Chinese desert and an ancient Indian burial ground ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 1. Bogor, called Buitenzorg by the Dutch, is known for its botanical gardens and is located in which island country? 2.The Marquesas Islands are one of five ...