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
See all of the Florida Keys
Get a treatment at one of the world’s best island spas`
Sleep under a Socotra tree
Find a surprise in Wales
Play ball like a kid in the Dominican Republic
See Tahiti’s Super Bowl
Paddle board in Hawaii
Sip the world’s most “interesting” coffee in Bali
Stand on a glacier in Iceland
Dine at one of the most romantic tables for two
See the colors of Curacao
Take a picture of Santorini, Greece
Taste the ultimate sushi in Japan
Take your time at the Bishop Museum in Hawaii
to 76. Spot the coolest island animals
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
Surf Waikiki
to 72. Toast with these iconic island drinks
Ride a mule on Molokai, Hawaii
Cook a Tahitian feast
Get spoiled Down Under at the qualia resort
Climb to the Haleakala Crater on Maui
Live the island life in Bali
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
Take a romantic getaway to one of the world’s most romantic islands
Dive off Molokini crater in Hawaii
Find adventure in New Zealand
Eat up Oahu
Walk into paradise in Fiji
See real hula in Hawaii
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 best island beaches
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
Fly over the Na Pali Coast of Kauai, Hawaii
Night dive with mantas off the Big Island, Hawaii
Fair Wind**
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Sail the secret Caribbean
Book a “sanctuary” at Jade Mountain resort on St. Lucia
Stay in an overwater bungalow in the Maldives
Dive at Raja Ampat, Indonesia
Relax on the most stress-free island
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
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Experience the culture of Papua New Guinea
Feel the heat on the Big Island of Hawaii
Take a cruise into the secret South Pacific
Move to the USVI
Sleep on the Great Barrier Reef
Live in Hawaii
See the Galapagos
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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