Bahamas

The Bahamas' capital - 280,000 people on New Providence Island, the institutional 1670s pirate-history capital, the colonial Government House, Parliament Square, the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island, the Junkanoo Carnival, and the gateway to the Exuma Cays, Bimini, the Out Islands.

A 150 km chain of 365 cays in the Bahamas southeast of Nassau. Swimming pigs, nurse sharks, Thunderball Grotto, the 1958 marine park, and water in every shade of blue.