Paradise in the South Pacific? Isn't that only ad copy for getaway resorts that put little beach umbrellas in the cocktails and charge prices the locals could only afford after a winning lottery ticket?

Local leader Visanti Makrava, here with an arm around his elder brother, hopes to keep tourism small-scale to minimize its impact on the community.

Maybe so, but places remain that, if not paradises, are blissfully unwired and undiscovered. Of course, in drawing attention to those places, travel writers often make them a little more like Shibuya: Where the jumbos fly, McDonald's and Starbucks inevitably follow.