Visit Mohéli beaches

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.

Palm-fringed beach on Nevis.

Quiet beach across from Libreville.

Sail to uninhabited reef-ringed islets.

Golden cliffs and beaches in the south.

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