Quiet former colonial coastal town.
Postcard sandbar in Aitutaki lagoon.
Sailing and whale-watching islands.
Beach famous for bake-and-shark.
Powdery beach and vivid reef.
Powder-white South Pacific beach.
Remote islands of saltwater hippos.
Two miles of soft Caribbean sand.
Faded colonial beach town, UNESCO-listed.
Famed white-sand beach on Culebra.
Quiet palm-backed coastal beach.
Where hippos surf and elephants roam beaches.
Quiet white-sand beach at the western tip of Majuro atoll, with the clearest water on the island.
Atlantic islands off Conakry.
Lagoon island of white sand.
Ridge trail with skyline-and-sea views.
The gateway island of the Bijagos, with the Bruce beach, a small museum and boats to the wilder islands.
Classic Pacific atoll near Majuro.
Wild donkeys on a remote peninsula.
Volcanic island of rainforest and beaches.
Praslin’s granite-boulder beach, often ranked among the world’s best.
Broad tidal lagoon and beaches near Robertsport.
Remote palm-backed Atlantic beach near the Senegalese border.
Atlantic surf town of long left breaks.
Bike to famous granite-boulder beaches.
White-sand beach on Bioko island.
Quiet beach across from Libreville.
Palm-backed white-sand beach.
Forested dune peninsula, UNESCO-listed.
Rwanda’s Riviera — bilharzia-free swimming, kayaking and coffee farms on the shores of a lake ringed by hills.
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