The small propeller plane touches down in the setting sun at Exuma International Airport on an island which is perhaps better known as the home of the "swimming pigs." Welcome to Exuma in the Bahamas.

A second population of swimming pigs has been established on Rose Island – a 25-minute boat ride as opposed to the combination flight and boat excursion needed to reach Pig Beach in the Exumas.

Located in the Exumas, Big Major Cay – commonly known as Pig Beach – is the original Bahamas island with swimming pigs. It is accessible from several islands in the Bahamas as well as Florida.

This week marks 64 years since the 1961 landing of Cuban exiles on the southern shores of their homeland in what was, ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Pig Island is located in the Bahamas' Exuma Cays. No one is sure exactly how the pigs got there, but Pig Beach has become a huge tourist destination. You can watch ...

GEORGE TOWN, Exuma — The small propeller plane touches down in the setting sun at Exuma International Airport on an island which is perhaps better known as the home of the "swimming pigs." ...

Please don't pick up baby pigs, reads the sign on Big Mayor Island, in Exuma, the Bahamas. Simone Spohr/dpa-tmn ...