Its pristine beaches and coral reefs don't draw as many tourists as other Caribbean islands.
Pristine beaches, tranquility and mediation retreats can offer some remedy for doleful souls.
But the area - boasting lush vegetation and pristine beaches - is now likely to become a centre for eco-tourism.
Of the numerous pristine beaches and secluded bays on the islands, Whitehaven stands out for its 7km strip of pure white silica sand.
With its pristine beaches and glamorous night spots, Miami has long been a haven for escapees, from political refugees to college kids fleeing winter.
Eye-opening drasma and locations almost too beautiful to be real unfold at all points of its coast and core: from the South Shore's retro-swinging Waikiki Beach to the East Shore's pristine beaches and dense jungles to the North Shore's Waimea Beach, feared and loved for its tsunami-like surf.
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The large ships will take you to the biggest ports with the most to do, like Nassau and Cozumel, while the smaller ones will allow you to visit pristine and secluded beaches in the Southern Grenadines and British Virgin Islands.
Today, Fort Pickens appears best known for the pristine-white beaches, campgrounds and great fishing that surround it attractions locals are fervently hoping will lure vacationers back after last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill kept many away from the Gulf Coast's famous beaches.
Six months after the spill some untreated beaches had returned to a pristine condition, whilst the treated beaches had become a wasteland.
The vast majority of beaches are pristine and open for business.
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But those beaches will recover because those big globs of oil, when they hit the beaches, we can send a bunch of people out there and scoop them up, dispose of it properly, and those beaches will look pretty pristine a year or two years from now.
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You can charter a local boat from Labuanbajo for two or three day cruises in park waters, snorkel over pristine reefs, lounge on pink sand beaches and hike on Rinca and Komodo (one and a half and three hours by boat from Labuanbajo respectively).
From there, the behemoth chugs south alongside the freeway until it turns off into the jungle, offering views of pristine mangrove swamps filled with egrets and herons, traditional kampongs, beaches and stretches of lush, green paddy fields.
The cornerstone of this potential economic and environmentally sound concept is Pic Macaya herself, a roughly 150 square kilometer region that encompasses the largest quasi-pristine wilderness in the entire country, overlooking to the north, the west and particularly the south, magnificent beaches, islands and mangroves.
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