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I bet you know many beaches. This article is about my selection 9 fascinating beaches. With about 70% percent of the Earth covered by water, there has to be extremely long coast lines. Some of these lines are beaches.
This post is part of a series portraying the classic Elements of Nature: Earth, Fire, Water, Air. Beaches are examples of the third element, Water.
Previously unspoiled beaches
We start with two beautiful unspoiled beaches that became extremely developed tourist destinations after my visit:
1. White Beach on the island of Boracay, Philippines
White Beach on Boracay, view to south
2. Chaweng Beach on the island of Samui, Thailand
Beach boats on Koh Samui
Four developed ones
We continue with four beautiful beaches that were developed already, when I arrived:
3. Copacabana and Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro – Copacabana
4. Albena, Bulgaria
Albena beach on the Black Sea
5. La Croisette, Cannes, France
Cannes
Some beaches have a special story, but are not particularly pretty.
6. The Bay of Pigs, Cuba
Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs)
And some more
Others are just plain pretty. Period.
7. Palombaggia, Corsica, France
Palombaggia beach
You know that a beach does not have to be situated on the sea. Lakes have beaches too, like this one.
8. Lican Ray, Chile
Lican Ray beach and the Calafquén Lake
Some beautiful beaches may not need to be accompanied by swimming or sunbathing. They are too cold, although surfers do not care about that detail.
9. Orrestranda, Jæren, Norway
Orre beach
Further reading
That was my selected 9 fascinating beaches. Missing anything? For sure, I’ve had to skip some of my images related to this subject and refrained from mentioning some of my visits. Feel free to search this website for more. In addition, you are surely missing famous places or your own favourites. Chances are I haven’t been there, and I only include my own images and visits in this series.
All articles in this series
(1) Introduction
(2-7) Element: Earth
(8) Element: Fire
(9-14) Element: Water
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