Misool Island, Indonesia

If you think it’s impossible to find a tropical paradise that's still largely untouched by people, you may be wrong. Raja Ampat, an archipelago in the province of West Papua, Indonesia, has a mere 50,000 inhabitants, and they all live on or around its four main islands – Batanta, Misool, Salawati and Waigeo. (In fact, the name Raja Ampat means "Four Kings" and derives from an ancient legend that says four young kings were hatched from dragon eggs, one ruler for each of those main islands.) The rest of Raja Ampat is made up of about 1,500 smaller islands and cays – and astonishingly, hundreds of these tiny islands have yet to be explored by humans.
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