The Comoros Islands are off the east coast Africa, in the Indian Ocean between northern Madagascar and northern Mozambique. They consist of four islands, one of which is still administered by France.

After a turbulent period, with nearly 20 coups since its independence in 1975, it is slowly allowing tourism with its white-sand beaches are less crowded than it’s Indian Ocean neighbors, the Seychelles and the Maldives.

The country is devoutly Muslim, so the locals frown upon the consumption of alcohol and bare skin.