DIGITAL ISSUE 13 11/2023
DIGITAL ISSUE 13 11/2023
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We get rowdy in Seoul, chill in Gangneung and absolutely stuffed in Jeonju.
WE ASKED:
TELL US ABOUT YOUR MOST EPIC ISLAND EXPERIENCE.
ROBERTO SERRINI @serrini
"While there are a lot of phenomenal water-locked places to visit, from Hawaii with its night manta ray dives, to the extraordinary desolate beauty of Resolute Island along the Arctic's Northwest Passage, perhaps my favorite was visiting the remote paradise Marquesas islands in Polynesia, only accessible from special hybrid cruise/cargo ships that can bring you to places that most humans never tread. The level of virgin paradise and wild nature there combined with the warm communities that have lived there for millennia is something you simply can't experience anywhere else on Earth."
TAYLA GENTLE @taylaroxene
Got stranded on a sandbar in the Philippines, just off the coast of Palawan. Got moved to another island where it rained non-stop all night. We slept in a broken tent, without any gear or change of clothes. Three of us in a two-man. Woke up the next morning to an epic sunrise swim, and fresh fish for breaky. Highly recommend going for the 'survivor' experience on your next Phili adventure.
TIM McGLONE @mcglone.jpg
"We'd spontaneously purchased a large amount of fireworks earlier in the week, and took them with us to the little island we were staying on, just off the coast of Tongatapu, the main island in Tonga. My sister was living there in the mid twenty-10s (wish that had a cooler ring to it) and the entire family decided to visit at Christmas. Well lubricated by beer, we set them off on a beautiful beach with reckless abandon on Christmas night, an event which drew a large crowd from the local village nearby. Seeing the little ones promptly losing their minds at the display, pure joy spread across their faces, made it an island Christmas I'll never forget."
get in the know There are around 900,000 official islands in the world. Greenland is considered the world's largest at 2.166 million km², while Just Room Enough Island is the consensus for the world's smallest inhabited island, at about the size of a tennis court. Google it - it does not disappoint.
