Visit Caye Caulker

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.

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.

Picture-perfect resort islands.

Seventeen kilometres of white sand and casuarina trees south of Mombasa, with kite-surfing and colobus monkeys in the trees.

Clear freshwater lake teeming with cichlids.

Palm-fringed national-park island reached by catamaran, with a starfish-filled natural pool on the way.