Fifteen rocks in raked gravel, arranged so you can never see all fifteen at once.
Laid-back resort town of long white sand and the sunset cliffs at Rick’s Cafe.
Beach paradise on the north coast.
Picture-perfect resort islands.
White-sand beach south of Mogadishu, popular for Friday picnics.
Seventeen kilometres of white sand and casuarina trees south of Mombasa, with kite-surfing and colobus monkeys in the trees.
Palm-fringed national-park island reached by catamaran, with a starfish-filled natural pool on the way.
Laid-back "go slow" Caribbean island.
Jungle island with 28 white beaches, glowing plankton at night and almost no roads, off Sihanoukville.
Zanzibar’s liveliest beach, dhow builders and turquoise shallows.
Three tiny car-free islands off Lombok — turtles, reef bars and no traffic at all.
Laid-back pair of jungle islands with clear water and cheap beachfront snorkelling.
Drift the palm-lined waterways by houseboat.
Lagoon of healing white mud.
Wild, empty rainforest beaches.
Powder-white beach with beach fales to sleep in, facing the uninhabited Nu’utele island.
Sheltered, yacht-filled bay.
Palm-fringed beach on Nevis.
Tobago's iconic palm-fringed beach.
Powder-white South Pacific beach.
Quiet former colonial coastal town.
Tea-coloured creek recreation spot, its water dyed by rainforest tannins.
Palm-backed white-sand beach.
Quiet palm-backed coastal beach.
Atlantic islands off Conakry.
Lagoon island of white sand.
Remote palm-backed Atlantic beach near the Senegalese border.
Quiet beach across from Libreville.
The gateway island of the Bijagos, with the Bruce beach, a small museum and boats to the wilder islands.
Two miles of soft Caribbean sand.
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