Swim in the hidden coves of Croatia's Adriatic coast, exploring secluded beaches and clear waters along the coastline.
Sea caves on the west coast with a natural rock pool where the island’s kings once bathed.
Mogadishu's lively city beach.
White-sand beach south of Mogadishu, popular for Friday picnics.
Seven kilometres of pure white silica sand in the Whitsundays, swirling into the turquoise Hill Inlet.
Powder-white beach with beach fales to sleep in, facing the uninhabited Nu’utele island.
Swim in a deep garden swimming hole.
Palm-fringed beach on Nevis.
St Lucia's most popular beach.
Underground cave and freshwater pool.
Tea-coloured creek recreation spot, its water dyed by rainforest tannins.
Limestone cave with a swimmable freshwater pool on Tongatapu.
Powdery beach and vivid reef.
Powder-white South Pacific beach.
Nauru’s best beach, a curve of sand and coral pinnacles on the east coast, with a harbour and swimming lagoon.
Famed white-sand beach on Culebra.
Palm-backed white-sand beach.
Quiet white-sand beach at the western tip of Majuro atoll, with the clearest water on the island.
White-sand beach on Bioko island.
Two miles of soft Caribbean sand.
One of the world’s oldest lakes, with Byzantine churches on the shore and a UNESCO-listed old town.
Brilliant blue water off Comino.
Clear freshwater lake teeming with cichlids.
Jurassic sandstone massif of canyons, natural swimming pools and ring-tailed lemurs in the south of Madagascar.
Rwanda’s Riviera — bilharzia-free swimming, kayaking and coffee farms on the shores of a lake ringed by hills.
Antigua's liveliest white-sand beach.
Sandy shore on Lake Tanganyika.
Pink-tinged sand and turquoise water.
Deep-blue volcanic crater lake ringed by weekend cafes and piers.
Salt pans inside an extinct volcano on Sal, where the water is so dense you float as in the Dead Sea.
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