To Sua Ocean Trench at Lotofaga Village on Upolu, Samoa. Photo / Getty Images In Samoa, Anika Moa heals her heartbreak and replaces lost lovers with newfound friends. A place to cure a torn, broken ...

Richly blessed with white-sand beaches, crystal-clear freshwater pools, vivid coral reefs, plunging waterfalls, dramatic volcanic features and ravishing rainforest, Samoa ticks so many holiday boxes.

Reporting from Apia, Samoa — Even in darkness, on the way from the airport, Samoa didn’t look like anywhere else I’d been in Polynesia — not like Rarotonga or Fiji, not like Tahiti or Easter Island.

Getting there: Lalomanu is one of Samoa's most famous beaches, which you'll find at the southeastern tip of Upolu, its main island. The area got hammered by the 2009 tsunami but has made a slow ...

As the ocean receded on the east coast of Upolu, Samoa, hundreds of people, including tourists, fled for the hills behind Lalomanu Village. A tsunami triggered by a magnitude-8.3 earthquake created a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Robert Louis Stevenson made Samoa his final resting place. James A. Michener's Tales Of The South Pacific was inspired by the author's ...

The poster image for Samoa’s main island of Upolu, To Sua Ocean Trench, is every bit as stunning as it appears in photos. A home-built timber ladder descends precipitously through a bush-clad sinkhole ...