WHICH OF THESE LOW-TECH ISLANDS WOULD YOU VISIT?

IT MAY SEEM LIKE THE INTERNET AND CELL PHONE SERVICE ARE EVERYWHERE. But they're not. On remote islands, it may be difficult or even impossible to go online or use your phone. Some people long for a break from technology. Are you one of them? Or, do you never let your phone out of your sight? If you had to choose, which of these low-tech islands would you visit?

- Kathryn Hulick

Tristan da Cunha

According to Guinness World Records, Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world. It's located smack in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. The closest city is Cape Town, South Africa, which is 1,500 miles (2,400 km) away. People grow potatoes and catch lobsters to eat. The 241 people who live here are so cut off from the rest of the world that they used Morse code to send messages until the 1980s. Now, a small building equipped with a satellite dish provides incredibly slow and expensive internet access. There is no cell phone service on the island at all.

Saluag Island