Efforts to encourage activities like village tours and handicraft workshops appears to be helping tourism rebound from ...

Palau, a dreamy archipelago in the western ... and unique rock formations like the Rock Islands. The climate is tropical with a dry and a rainy season, which affects the conditions of its roads ...

The southern reaches of the archipelago are where Palau's most characteristic geological features rise in strange formations. These are the Rock Islands: verdant, small, undercut isles that ...

Boy were they right. A few hours later, in Palau’s Rock Islands, I am swimming with fellow passengers aged mid-20s to high 70s, seeing black tip sharks, psychedelic brain coral, giant clams ...

Reinhard Dirscherl / Getty While researching an upcoming trip to Palau, a tiny island nation dotting Micronesia’s western edge, I found endless information about its famed mushroom-shaped Rock ...