The 12 Most Beautiful Beaches in the World
Of course, beauty is different for everyone – maybe you like pebbles more than sand and give more points to surfing than building perfect sandcastles. These are the 12 most beautiful beaches in the world! Which of these is your favourite?
1. Aruba, Netherlands Antilles
Looking for paradise beaches? Then Aruba is the right place for you. Aruba lies off the coast of Venezuela with its amazing beaches that seem to come straight out of a glossy coffee table book: Mangel Halto, Santo Largo. They are all among the most beautiful beaches in the world.
2. Bora Bora, French Polynesia
The very name Polynesia conjures up Robinson Crusoe-esque images of an exotic paradise with endless days of sunshine, baby-soft sand and impossibly turquoise waters. Bora Bora is one of the dots in the Paci Ocean that is French Polynesia.
3. Bay of Pigs Fernando de Noronha, Brazil
Forget Copacobana. Brazil has several candidates to put forward in the election 'Most beautiful beach on earth' such as on the islands of Fernando de Noronh. Here you are guaranteed to find the perfect place to lay down your towel like in the Bay of Pigs.
4. Fethiye, Turkey
Fethiye in Turkey attracts quite a few holidaymakers and you can't blame them with so many beautiful beaches. Such as Oludeniz with its blue lagoon, Kelebekler Vadisi with its butterflies, Kıdrak with its pine trees and the place for sunsets: Calis
5. La Digue, Seychelles
The Seychelles are equal to paradise for many people. It is not for nothing that many newlyweds spend their honeymoon here. Take Duchess Kate and Prince William. All its islands, from Bird Island to Praslin, have first-class beaches, but we go for La Digue – Anse Source d'Argent. One of the most beautiful beaches in the world and the absolute dream for honeymooners
6. Lanikai Beach, Hawaii
Lovers of perfect (surf) waves and big rollers in the ocean head to the North Shore on Oahu, but the Hawaiian island also attracts beach fans to the small Lanikai Beach. Go paddling and 'supping', you will share your idyllic experience with turtles.
7. Navagio, Zakynthos, Greece
At the bottom of steep, high cliffs on a hidden part of the Greek island of Zakynthos, surrounded by the bluest water you will ever see, lies Navagio. The big surprise is a shipwreck, left behind by smugglers when it got too hot for them.
8. Palawan, Philippines
For the most beautiful beaches you think of Thailand and Malaysia rather than the Philippines perhaps. Nothing is less true. If you really want to be completely cut off from everything and everyone, head to Bacuit Archipelago, heaven for avid beachgoers.
9. Ko Phi Phi, Thailand
Do you remember The Beach (film and cult book for backpackers)? Nowadays you have to look a little better for that paradisiacal utopian beach experience along Thailand's Andaman coast, there are still small pearls to be found on Phi Phi.
10. Playa San Miguel, Ibiza, Spain
Granted, there are some parts of the white island (nickname) that are a bit ruined, but Ibiza still has secret beaches that are among the best in the world. Both in comparison with countries around the Mediterranean Sea and with the rest of the world. Give us (a) San Miguel!
11. Whitehaven, Whitsunday Islands, Australia
Wow! Often voted Australia's best beach. Whitehaven is a bit quieter than Bondi Beach when there is an attractive surf wind blowing. It is one of many turquoise and white sand beaches on the rainforest-covered Whitsunday Islands off the coast of Queensland.
12. Durness, Scotland
Why always those eternal palm trees? A warm sweater fits better than a bikini on the expansive beach of Durness in Scotland's far north west. Many will dispute whether this is the most beautiful beach in Scotland. It has competition: Sandwood Bay in Sutherland, Kiloran Bay on Colonsay, Luskentyre on Harris are three of many contenders.
