This has prompted outraged editorials and op-ed articles warning that a Pacific paradise will become a balkanized banana republic.

One of his books on the Pacific paradise infected that American naval officer - Killick, what are you doing to that young woman?

The vibrant Hawaiian-shirt colors and retro ukulele music suggest a child's idea of a Pacific paradise, circa the 1960's.

All of this in an undiscovered, Pacific paradise.

It's no south Pacific paradise but there's lots going on there, from recreation to transportation to industry - hardly "dead".

Zihuatanejo, or Zihua as it's affectionately called, is a Pacific paradise of beautiful beaches, friendly people and an easygoing lifestyle.

Leaving the Pacific paradise, the ship sailed on to San Francisco (then Yerba Buena).

The coup on Thursday has indeed cast a funereal pall on a nation whose beaches and conviviality had earned it a reputation as a Pacific paradise.

We don't need a Pacific paradise because we have our own here, I replied.

As Tourism Minister Herty Lewites gazes at the palm-shaded beach that stretches as far as the eye can see from this Pacific paradise, he imagines thousands of tourists bringing their dollars to Nicaragua.