What if you could dance with giant manta rays? Pet friendly jellyfish? Wave hello (and goodbye) to black-tipped reef sharks? You can. Fasten your seatbelts for a long flight to Palau, Micronesia, the “Eighth Wonder of the World.”
Why travel to remote destinations if not for exotic foods as well as other splendored things to see, hear, smell, and touch. A trip to Palau is as much a culinary adventure as it is a discovery feast of diving, snorkeling, boating, and jungle-trotting.
Blacktips and whitetips are the most common reef sharks in the waters of Palau – a Micronesian archipelago of 586 islands with 20,000 human inhabitants, 1,500 species of fish, and 700 species of coral and anemone.
There is some muddy business going on in the ecologically clean Palau. Between the white mud of Mother Nature’s own beauty salon and the red mud of ATV-challenging roads, spa junkies and adventure seekers can easily satisfy their respective obsessions here.
Dramatic clouds billowing from a giant’s pipe find their reflection in basket-like islands that seem to float atop the opalescent waters of Micronesia. The air is sweet with flowering frangipani. It is also salty with sea breezes, and pearly-gray, like a dove’s breast. This is Palau, an emerald-green archipelago in the western Pacific with more […]