A Fresh Perspective on Travel Every Day
Few locations evoke visuals quite like the Bahamas. Envision impossibly azure waters, swaying palms, and sugar-soft beaches extending across a horizon artistically painted in watercolor tones, all set to the lively rhythms of a Goombay drum. Fortunately, it is feasible to experience all of this in a single weekend; one merely needs to know where to find it.
Many travelers think of the Bahamas mostly in terms of Nassau and Freeport — the biggest cities on the most populous islands — but this archipelago bordering the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea actually consists of 29 islands plus hundreds of cays. Lightly settled and largely unexplored by casual tourists, the Out Islands of the Bahamas are more well-known to anglers, divers, and nature lovers as pristine outposts of solitude and “old Caribbean” lifestyle. These (mostly) small specks of land are also home to dozens of resorts, mostly located on the bigger islands profiled below.