Quiet white-sand beach at the western tip of Majuro atoll, with the clearest water on the island.
White-sand beach on Bioko island.
Classic Pacific atoll near Majuro.
Quiet beach across from Libreville.
Faded colonial beach town, UNESCO-listed.
Remote palm-backed Atlantic beach near the Senegalese border.
Famed white-sand beach on Culebra.
Volcanic island of rainforest and beaches.
Palm-backed white-sand beach.
Quiet palm-backed coastal beach.
Broad tidal lagoon and beaches near Robertsport.
Where hippos surf and elephants roam beaches.
Atlantic islands off Conakry.
Brilliant blue water off Comino.
A bare crescent of white sand in the middle of the ocean, yours for an afternoon by dhoni.
Pacific surf-and-party beach town.
One of the world’s oldest lakes, with Byzantine churches on the shore and a UNESCO-listed old town.
Pine-fringed Black Sea resort with a 10th-century cathedral.
Antigua's liveliest white-sand beach.
Wake over a turquoise lagoon with steps down into the reef — the Maldives invented the overwater villa.
Clear freshwater lake teeming with cichlids.
Remote island with a vast cathedral.
Forested dune peninsula, UNESCO-listed.
Rwanda’s Riviera — bilharzia-free swimming, kayaking and coffee farms on the shores of a lake ringed by hills.
The world's longest freshwater lake.
Long white beaches and salt flats.
Pointe-Noire's wild Atlantic shore.
Caribbean islands on the Mesoamerican reef.
Quiet beaches and nesting turtles.
Pink-tinged sand and turquoise water.
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