Laid-back resort town of long white sand and the sunset cliffs at Rick’s Cafe.
White-sand beach south of Mogadishu, popular for Friday picnics.
Mogadishu's lively city beach.
Seventeen kilometres of white sand and casuarina trees south of Mombasa, with kite-surfing and colobus monkeys in the trees.
Zanzibar’s liveliest beach, dhow builders and turquoise shallows.
Vietnam’s beach resort capital — a long city beach, island snorkelling trips and Cham towers on the hill.
Seven kilometres of pure white silica sand in the Whitsundays, swirling into the turquoise Hill Inlet.
St Lucia's most popular beach.
Sheltered, yacht-filled bay.
Palm-fringed beach on Nevis.
Walk through a forest of razor coral pinnacles to a ladder that drops into a hidden sandy oasis with palm trees between the cliffs.
Powder-white beach with beach fales to sleep in, facing the uninhabited Nu’utele island.
Powder-white South Pacific beach.
Tobago's iconic palm-fringed beach.
Nauru’s best beach, a curve of sand and coral pinnacles on the east coast, with a harbour and swimming lagoon.
Beach famous for bake-and-shark.
Quiet former colonial coastal town.
Powdery beach and vivid reef.
Two miles of soft Caribbean sand.
Faded colonial beach town, UNESCO-listed.
Famed white-sand beach on Culebra.
Quiet palm-backed coastal beach.
Remote palm-backed Atlantic beach near the Senegalese border.
Ridge trail with skyline-and-sea views.
Palm-backed white-sand beach.
White-sand beach on Bioko island.
Quiet beach across from Libreville.
Quiet white-sand beach at the western tip of Majuro atoll, with the clearest water on the island.
Antigua's liveliest white-sand beach.
Pacific surf-and-party beach town.
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