For many people, the beach is the whole point of a summer holiday – a place to sunbathe, swim, read and dream, but also a place of adventure and intrigue, of beginnings and endings.

Here's our video of some of the best beaches in the world.


THE 5 BEST BEACHES IN THE WORLD. 0:00

5. DIE PLAAT, WALKER BAY NATURE RESERVE, SOUTH AFRICA. 0:48

Don’t be surprised to spot the occasional southern right whale wallowing offshore at Die Plaat, a ruggedly beautiful swath of sand fringed by rocky limestone outcrops near Hermanus, South Africa’s whale capital. Chubby seals slouch on the rocky shoreline here, and you’ll find the ground littered with huge, pearlescent abalone shells. There’s history to be courted in these windwhipped sands as well; the beach is home to Klipgat Cave, a batfilled cavern where late Middle Stone Age people lived up to 85,000 years ago (keep your eyes peeled – you may even spot ancient tools on the ground).

4. AWAROA, SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND. 2:03

Set deep in the heart of New Zealand’s glorious Abel Tasman National Park, Awaroa is hemmed in by clovergreen native bush and seas that sparkle like freshly blown glass. Most visitors come here either by water – swooshing in on kayaks or small boats – or on foot, to ramble around the park’s lush forests. It has an important place in the hearts of the locals, who banded together to crowdfund the purchase of the privately held beachfront when it came up for sale in 2016, thus giving this pretty part of the planet the nickname the ‘People’s Beach’.

3. ORA BEACH, INDONESIA. 3:32

With a higgledypiggledy 37,000mile coastline (the world’s second longest), Indonesia has a glut of beautiful beaches. One of its finest is Ora, snuggled away on the north coast of sparsely populated Seram island. The area is known as Indonesia’s Little Maldives due to its agate seas and whitesugar beaches, but the island still retains something of a wild feel. Seram sits amid several tectonic plates, meaning that the surrounding landscape varies cinematically, from lush, birdspeckled tropical rainforest to ogrelike mountains.

2. DUNE DU PILAT, FRANCE. 4:45

In the warmer months, Europe’s tallest sand dune, just an hour’s drive from Bordeaux, is cloaked in a constant, shimmering heat haze, giving the illusion that this sprawling French beach is scattered with gleaming treasure. The sand here, which forms peaks as high as 300 feet, is as finely milled as fresh flour, perfect for sausagerolling your way down to the tussocky Atlantic shoreline and standing to gaze back at the pine forests behind the beach. The surrounding Arcachon Bay holds miles of beaches ripe for exploring, and you’ll find a jumble of huts nearby where fishermen set up tables to sell oysters, pâté and prawns.

1. LUSKENTYRE, OUTER HEBRIDES. 6:19

At the end of a winding road on the windbattered west coast of the Isle of Harris, you’ll find something to make your eyes pop. Luskentyre Beach is a paint splash of brilliant white, surrounded by almost impossibly azure water. On a sunny day, it’s so unerringly blue you may find it hard to believe you are in Scotland at all. But regardless of its paradoxically tropical feel, it’s at its most beautiful when eelcoloured storm clouds roll in and seas turn flinty, turning this dramatic landscape an eerie monochrome.

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