Palm-backed white-sand beach.
Rainforest hike to bathing falls.
Famed white-sand beach on Culebra.
White-sand beach on Bioko island.
Quiet white-sand beach at the western tip of Majuro atoll, with the clearest water on the island.
Praslin’s granite-boulder beach, often ranked among the world’s best.
Swim at the very edge of Victoria Falls.
Antigua's liveliest white-sand beach.
Brilliant blue water off Comino.
Twin waterfalls in the rainforest.
Rwanda’s Riviera — bilharzia-free swimming, kayaking and coffee farms on the shores of a lake ringed by hills.
Jurassic sandstone massif of canyons, natural swimming pools and ring-tailed lemurs in the south of Madagascar.
One of the world’s oldest lakes, with Byzantine churches on the shore and a UNESCO-listed old town.
Swim, jump and scramble through a narrow river gorge near the Honduran border.
Clear freshwater lake teeming with cichlids.
Chain of cobalt-blue jungle pools and falls above Jacmel.
Climb the famous tiered waterfall.
Terraced cascades amid mango groves near Banfora.
A 70-metre plume into a jungle pool at the base of Arenal — 500 steps down, swim, 500 steps back.
Pink-tinged sand and turquoise water.
Three tiers of waterfalls with swimming pools in Taveuni’s rainforest national park.
Karst peaks, rivers and lagoons.
Sandy shore on Lake Tanganyika.
Swim at night in a lagoon near Falmouth where bioluminescent plankton light up every stroke.
Salt pans inside an extinct volcano on Sal, where the water is so dense you float as in the Dead Sea.
Deep-blue volcanic crater lake ringed by weekend cafes and piers.
Tiered turquoise falls near Luang Prabang.
Mogadishu's lively city beach.
Turquoise limestone pools stepping down a jungle river that vanishes underground beneath them.
White-sand beach south of Mogadishu, popular for Friday picnics.
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