In 1936, King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson obtained permission from city authorities to bathe naked in the inlet of Kandalora, and people have been doing the same on the island’s beaches ever since. The Croatian island of Rab claims to be the birthplace of modern skinny-dipping. Highlight: Turtles and whales can sometimes be spotted from the tops of the cliffs overlooking the ocean. One of the few beautiful beaches in Barbados to have escaped development overkill, Bottom Bay is enclosed by high coral cliffs, making it an almost undiscovered pocket of paradise. Highlight: Blanchards Beach Shack serves fantastic lobster rolls and a great mango colada. If you tire of the sugary sands and bathtub-warm water of Meads Bay, one of the island’s longest beaches, there are several good restaurants and hotels nearby. This speck in the Caribbean was front of the queue when the beach gods were passing out idyllic places to lounge. Highlight: Dominated by local families who rent motorcycles for $5 a day and bungalows for $20 per night, Long Beach reminds some of Thailand in the late 1980s.Īnguilla beaches don’t do average. Market traders in conical hats hawk baguettes, ducks, flying lizards and other items rarely seen on the Thai side of the Gulf, while motorcycles ply red dirt roads to pearl farms and old-style fishing ports. Phu Quoc is fast becoming the most popular new island destination in Vietnam. Highlight: The hot springs are accessible only at low tide those with shovels can create ad hoc spas in the warm sand. Over time, this water escapes to the surface, cooling along the way, though still emerging at temperatures as hot as 147 F (64 C). Volcanoes near this beach on the eastern edge of New Zealand’s North Island develop large underground reservoirs of extremely hot water. Hot Water Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand Highlight: Steep, rocky cliffs covered in vegetation form a backdrop to the clear waters that are accessible only via ladders attached to the cliff face or by boat.ĩ4. Often voted Brazil’s best beach, Praia do Sancho is a bay on the island of Fernando de Noronha, facing the coast of Brazil rather than out into the Atlantic Ocean. Praia do Sancho, Fernando de Noronha, Brazil Good to know: Whales often visit in July and August.ĩ5. It’s flanked by a coral reef that you can snorkel around or explore from the surface in a colorful dugout canoe. But that’s why we love Ifaty, on the southwest coast of Madagascar. Shade is provided by drooping palm trees, not striped umbrellas, and fishermen’s houses, clumsily put together with natural materials, line the shore. Good to know: The best way to see this beautiful stretch of coastline is to walk it. Hole In The Wall (five miles up the road from Coffee Bay) is a spectacular rock just out to sea at the mouth of the Mpako River. With cliffs that plummet and green hills that roll into the turbulent waters of the Indian Ocean, this is one moody beach. Highlight: The thatched-roofed jetty, possibly the most photographed jetty in the world. Pigeon Point is a literal representation of the Caribbean beach ideal, right down to the charming old lady who sells sour-sop ice cream by the pound. Pigeon Point, Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago Highlights: Dunes, 6,000 years old and 100 feet high, dominate the area and support lots of wildlife.ĩ8. The two miles of Portstewart Strand are exceptionally well maintained, perhaps a little too meticulously, with every activity (swimming, horseback riding, walking, surfing) ascribed a dedicated zone. Portstewart Strand, Northern IrelandĪ beach for walkers and beach athletes. Highlight: On the first Saturday of August, thousands descend for Crete’s biggest beach party.ĭestination: Greece 99. This slice of coast takes in five consecutive beaches, the middle ones being most popular, the ones on the ends better for solitary sun lovers. Falassarna Beach, Crete, Greece Courtesy Chania Vacationīest thing about the sand at Falassarna? There’s so much of it there’s little chance of playing beach-mat overlap with strangers.
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