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Travel destination – Discover the Island Paradise of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Later I learned that the territory of the Cocos Islands is an excellent retreat, a holiday for to one to escape the every mundane world that one faces daily. Just imagine lying on a hammock under the shade of a palm tree with your favorite beverage in hand and just listening to the waves of the ocean rolling gently on the white sandy beaches. Tour destination - Christmas Island – Tropical Paradise on the Indian Ocean Santa Claus is not on the island, nor there are herds of reindeer or ice ands snow, but a tropical island with sunny skies, soft sand and surrounded by the wide ocean. The island is simply named for the Yuletide holiday when Captain William Mynors of the vessel ' Royal Mary' of the British East India Company on the December 25, 1643, Christmas Day when he arrived on its shores.