Waterfalls in protected forest.
Monaco’s public beach, redone in 2021 with a sheltered bay and promenade — swimming in the Med beside the Grand Prix circuit.
Hike a palm-lined canyon to turquoise pools, then swim through a crack in the rock into a hidden cave waterfall.
Canyoning through 27 waterfalls — jumping, sliding and swimming down a limestone gorge near Puerto Plata.
A 120-metre-wide arc of cascades into an emerald pool where locals swim and picnic all summer.
Swim with the wild pigs of Big Major Cay.
Central Europe's largest lake.
Seven travertine waterfalls on the Krka river, with the Skradinski Buk cascade and a Franciscan island monastery.
Freshwater lake ringed by biblical sites and lakeside hot springs.
Drop into a limestone sinkhole of crystal-clear fresh water on the Yucatan, where the Maya saw the entrance to the underworld.
White travertine terraces and pools.
Mineral springs that have petrified into white waterfalls of stone above the Oaxaca valleys, with cliff-edge pools you can swim in.
Seven kilometres of pure white silica sand in the Whitsundays, swirling into the turquoise Hill Inlet.
Fast, physical ball game played treading water.
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