Lizard Island

Forty suites and villas sit inside a national park on the Great Barrier Reef, with 24 private beaches between them and a fringing reef close enough to reach before breakfast. This all-inclusive island resort is as remote as Australia gets without a research permit. Guests split their days between snorkeling with turtles, walking bush trails, and doing absolutely nothing beside a plunge pool, which is, it turns out, a perfectly reasonable itinerary.

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