For some, a restful stay in a luxury overwater bungalow rounds up their visit to this shimmering archipelagic oasis sitting ...

Exchange winter for the luxury of the Maldives or the Seychelles, the exotic glamour of Zanzibar or the wonderfully weird wildlife of Madagascar, says Harriet O’Brien ...

Scientists have discovered two huge sunken islands in the Indian Ocean, west of Australia that were once part of the supercontinent Gondwana -- and are almost a mile underwater.

The best islands in the Indian Ocean, ranked The Maldives, Mauritius, the Seychelles or Sri Lanka, ... all packed into an island that’s just 270 miles long and 150 miles wide.

Periampillai, 37, grew up in a Mauritian family in London, where her parents emigrated in the 1970s. While there were (and continue to be) only a handful of Mauritian restaurants there, her ...

The islands are "scattered" across the Mozambique Channel and western Indian Ocean, said France 24. They include Bassas da India, Europa, Juan de Nova, Tromelin and the Glorioso Islands.

One of my favorite things about Rodrigues Island is that the speed limit is 50 kilometers per hour (about 32 mph). The people who live on the super-remote southern Indian Ocean island ...

The best islands in the Indian Ocean, ranked The Maldives, Mauritius, the Seychelles or Sri Lanka, ... all packed into an island that’s just 270 miles long and 150 miles wide.