With a little planning and some basic gear -- snorkel tube, goggles and flippers, to be exact -- you'll experience the extraordinary underwater world from these 5 stellar islands.
Meet the advisors behind our Best Fall Foliage Road Trips 2013. From travel host Samantha Brown to New England fall foliage photographer Jeff Folger, our panelists know the best leaf-peeping drives.
When you're eager to start your vacation, it can be easy to make simple travel mistakes. You forget voltage converters you won't be able to buy overseas. You fail to make copies of all your important documents, like passports and credit cards. You dress like a tourist (yes, white sneakers), singling yourself out as an easy target for pickpockets. The editors at TravelChannel.com have identified common travel mistakes that are easy to make, but also equally easy to avoid.