Beach paradise on the north coast.
Picture-perfect resort islands.
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.
Palm-fringed national-park island reached by catamaran, with a starfish-filled natural pool on the way.
Laid-back "go slow" Caribbean island.
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.
Jungle island with 28 white beaches, glowing plankton at night and almost no roads, off Sihanoukville.
Laid-back pair of jungle islands with clear water and cheap beachfront snorkelling.
Three tiny car-free islands off Lombok — turtles, reef bars and no traffic at all.
Wild, empty rainforest beaches.
Sheltered, yacht-filled bay.
Palm-fringed beach on Nevis.
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.
Quiet former colonial coastal town.
Two miles of soft Caribbean sand.
Quiet palm-backed coastal beach.
Atlantic islands off Conakry.
Lagoon island of white sand.
Remote palm-backed Atlantic beach near the Senegalese border.
Palm-backed white-sand beach.
The gateway island of the Bijagos, with the Bruce beach, a small museum and boats to the wilder islands.
Quiet beach across from Libreville.
Quiet white-sand beach at the western tip of Majuro atoll, with the clearest water on the island.
Rwanda’s Riviera — bilharzia-free swimming, kayaking and coffee farms on the shores of a lake ringed by hills.
Wake over a turquoise lagoon with steps down into the reef — the Maldives invented the overwater villa.
Clear freshwater lake teeming with cichlids.
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