If you can believe it, swimming with this gentle giant wasn’t even the highlight of our trip to Niue — the idyllic island nation almost no-one seems to have heard of (except for New Zealanders).

ALOFI, Niue (AP) — It was a school once, but there are no children here anymore. The lonely building on this remote Pacific island now contains only a punching bag that someone has strung from ...

A popular swimming spot on Niue Island. Getty “The people of Niue are understandably proud and delighted to receive such an important acknowledgment from the International Dark-Sky Association.

THE most enticing thing about Niue is that so few people have heard of the island, let alone seen it on a map. But there it is, somewhere near Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands.