As Islands inspires you to take the ultimate trips on your travel bucket list, we’ve compiled all of our Wish List stories of recent years into one ultimate list of our Top 100 suggestions, each with a link to more editors’ expert advice. And to have some fun, we’ve ranked them from No. 100 (have a Painkiller drink in the BVI) to No. 1 (?). Which trips are on your own wish list?
Drink a Painkiller at the Soggy Dollar Bar, BVI
Find a surprise in Wales
Play ball like a kid in the Dominican Republic
See Tahiti’s Super Bowl
Stand on a glacier in Iceland
Take a picture of Santorini, Greece
Taste the ultimate sushi in Japan
Take your time at the Bishop Museum in Hawaii
Dive with dugongs in the Philippines • Save the lemurs in Madagascar • Witness a crab orgy on Australia’s Christmas Island • Pet the Tasmanian devil (carefully!) in Tasmania • Pose with penguins in the Falklands • Stalk the “spirit bear” on Canada’s islands • Spot an ivory-billed woodpecker in Cuba • Dive with great white sharks off Dyer Island • See a tree kangaroo in Papua New Guinea • Meet Arctic wolves on Ellesmere Island See our photo gallery of these top animal adventures. Credit
Cook a Tahitian feast
Get spoiled Down Under at the qualia resort
to 55. Ride like locals
Soak in the Baths, British Virgin Islands
to 51. Get a thrill and a view
Take a photo of Mount Fuji, Japan
Eat New Zealand raw
Dive off Molokini crater in Hawaii
Eat up Oahu
Walk into paradise in Fiji
Snorkel with whales in Tonga
Get to Ko Samui, Thailand
Book one of the world’s best island cruises
Stay underwater in the Maldives
Conrad Maldives Resort & Spa**
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Visit the No. 1 most natural island destination
Take naps, drink wine and eat a ton on St. Lucia
Take the ultimate family vacation
Step foot on One Foot Island in Aitutaki, Cook Islands
See Tahiti beyond the bungalows
Night dive with mantas off the Big Island, Hawaii
Fair Wind**
fair-wind.com Ty Sawyer
Sail the secret Caribbean
Stay in an overwater bungalow in the Maldives
Relax on sand in the Seychelles
Stay at the No. 1 room with a view
Make Tahiti your home
Find the secret America
Escape to the coolest jungle
Hop the Caribbean by boat
CYOA Yacht Charters
cyoacharters.com Amory Ross
Feel the heat on the Big Island of Hawaii
Move to the USVI
Sleep on the Great Barrier Reef
Retire early on Roatan
to 4. Escape to a private island
Live the island life forever
Fall asleep in a faraway hammock
Thongtakian Beach Resort**
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