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As the Maldives opens its inhabited islands to tourism, Heidi Fuller-love island hops and meets loca...
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Though somewhat inconvenient, becoming a castaway needn’t be a harrowing experience. Heed t...
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The Great British beach holiday is back in vogue. Ruth-Ellen Davis rounds up the best coastal resort...
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A little-known surf paradise in the Philippines is about to get a big wave of tourism. Emilee Tombs ...
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Basking near Australia’s continental shelf, Marie Barbieri loses herself among marine creatures of...
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We sent Daniel Fahey to the very cusp of the known world to catch some Chinese monsters. Here’s ho...
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Samantha Wilson heads to Útila in Honduras in search of Old Tom, the legendary barnacle-en...
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Self-professed musical enthusiast Jack Palfrey visits the Greek Sporades, setting of 2008 hit fil...
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Whether you want to tan on a beach all day or party the night away, there’s a Caribbean island to ...

Top Beach Guides

Djerba has an inviting year round climate and stunning sandy beaches, plus the more recent addition of some excellent hotels. All of the resort hot...

About 10,000 people live in St Pete Beach full time, and with a few exceptions, most serve the tourists that double the population of this Gulf of ...

Since backpackers first arrived in Koh Samui in the 1970s, the Thai island has not looked back. In the 1980s the first tourist hotels opened and to...

The Black Sea's biggest and most popular resort, Sunny Beach lives up to its name and the huge swathe of powdery golden sand enjoys several undisturbe...

Sleepy staid rural backwater, back-in-time holiday resort, cache of childhood memories, Victorian hotspot, home of Brit...

The green, low-lying, fertile island of Kos, is one of the 12 Dodecanese islands in the southeast Aegean Sea. The 'father of modern medicine', Hippocr...

The sun-drenched state of Kerala offers a mix of beautiful sandy beaches, historic colonial towns, lush forests and tranquil hill stations.

Bold and energetic Limassol, one of Cyprus's liveliest cities, has long attracted holidaymakers to i...

The Gambian capital is a low-key city with a distinctively tropical flavour. Situated right at the mouth of the River Gambia, it was settled by the...

The self-styled 'Pearl of the Andaman' is the largest, most celebrated and most popular of Thailand's resort islands. Blessed with tracts of tropic...

The colourful city of Salvador is the cultural jewel of Brazil's Bahia state. Whereas Rio to the south has become a slick, ...

Laid-back Porto Santo, a pleasantly low-key resort island renowned for a 9km (6-mile) stretch of fluffy golden sand that flanks the southern shore,...


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