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Seychelles
The Seychelles is an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa, and it holds some of the oldest granite islands on Earth — remnants of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana — a geological rarity, since most oceanic islands worldwide are volcanic in origin rather than granite. The islands are home to the Vallée de Mai on Praslin Island, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed palm forest that's one of only two places in the world where the coco de mer palm grows naturally, producing the largest and heaviest seed of any plant on Earth, weighing up to 40 pounds. Aldabra Atoll, a remote Seychellois atoll and separate UNESCO World Heritage Site, hosts the largest population of giant tortoises anywhere in the world, a population that's thrived specifically because of the atoll's extreme remoteness and the near-total absence of human settlement or introduced predators. The Seychelles's combination of its rare ancient granite geology, the unique coco de mer palm forest found almost nowhere else on Earth, and Aldabra Atoll's giant tortoise population has made it one of the most ecologically unique and scientifically significant island nations anywhere in the world.
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Bora Bora
Bora Bora is a volcanic island in French Polynesia surrounded by a barrier reef and a turquoise lagoon, and its central peak, Mount Otemanu, is the eroded remnant of an extinct volcano that formed the island millions of years ago, now rising dramatically above the surrounding lagoon's shallow, protected water. The island is widely credited as the birthplace of the modern overwater bungalow, a style of accommodation built on stilts directly above the lagoon that first appeared there in the 1960s at the Hotel Bora Bora, a design innovation that's since become the signature architectural feature of luxury tropical resorts worldwide. Bora Bora's lagoon, protected from open-ocean swells by its encircling barrier reef, offers unusually calm, clear, shallow water well suited to snorkeling directly with reef sharks and stingrays in guided lagoon tours, a genuinely low-risk wildlife encounter that's become one of the island's most marketed visitor experiences. Bora Bora's combination of its dramatic volcanic peak, its founding role in inventing the overwater bungalow, and its calm, wildlife-rich lagoon has made it one of the most iconic and consistently aspirational island destinations in the world, particularly for honeymoon and luxury travel.
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