No. 17 Fiji
A collection of hundreds of islands, Fiji is on the dividing line between Polynesia and Melanesia, midway between Tahiti and Australia. The payoff for the long journey is that you get to indulge your South Seas fantasies in what feels like one of the last untrammeled places (no skyscrapers, a single two-lane highway, and steamer ferries plying the straits). But here, it’s the warm Fijian people who got the highest scores from voters, helping to keep the island in the top 5 in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific for five years in a row.
