Sunday, May 17, 2009
Jeffreys Bay South Africa
Jeffreys Bay
The home to perfect wave, and the surf capital of SA. Set against a typical East Coast backdrop of sand, dunes and aloes, Jeffreys Bay is home to the annual Billabong Pro WCT surfing event and boasts one of South Africa’s many Blue Flag beaches. It also famous fro seafood, particularly its calamari, and for a variety of watersports and venture activities. Jeffreys Bay is definitely one of SA’s premier beach destinations.
Gansbaai Beach South Africa
Visitors to Gaansbaai are not usually thinking about the beach. This is the cage diving mecca of South Africa where close encounters with great whites are a daily feauture. Despite this Gaansbaai is another of those languid stretches of white sandy beach with dunes and mountains to set the soul aslumber. Great food and wide are also a feature of this Cape Coast Wonderland.
Cape town Bunch of beaches
Cape Town
Cape Town is not a beach but a bunch of beaches, and all rank up there as among the best in the land. Clifton Beach is perhaps the most famous, but others like the nudist Sandy Beach, and Muizenberg, Kalk Bay, Boulders Beach, Noordhoek and Camps Bay all grace this most beautiful of all the worlds graceful cities. Cape Town is a jewel, and as a coastal town one of the choisest in the world. It cannot be beat, so don’t even try.
Beach Facts: The KwaZulu/Natal South Coast and Maputaland are comfortable all year round, although summertime (October/March) can get very hot and sticky. There is always a Christmas holiday rush at all of South Africa’s holiday destinations, and in particular at beach resorts, so advance book or avoidance is the key here.
The waters of the Atlantic Seaboard – those around Cape Town as far east as Hermanus, and along the coast west of Cape Town, are always cold. This is a summertime destination with sea temperatures in the region of 12C or 13C, while further east, as the Indian Ocean currents appear water temperatures rise to 21C and 24C on beaches around Durban and north-east, up to Cape Vidal. Summer air temperatures range from a low of 22C in Nature’s Valley, to 28C plus in Camp’s Bay [Cape Town], Durban and up to Cape
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Gwangalli Beach South Korea
Gwangalli Beach South Korea is famous for its cafes, bars, and restaurants along the beach.
Haeundae Beach South Korea
Haeundae, an affluent beach front community, attracts tens of thousands of Korean tourists. Along the 12 km of coastline Haeundae Beach is Busan's most popular beach, and with Seogwipo's, it is one of the best known beaches in South Korea
Pitinga Beach Brazil
Locate in the Porto Seguro District, and very near Arraial De Ajuda, Pitinga beach is for sure one of the most beautiful beaches in the state of Bahia, which means, one of the best beaches in Brazil. In front of the beach there is a big mountain, full of green vegetation, that gives you the idea, while you are swimming of being in a lost paradise. There are a lot of swimming pools in Pitinga Beach, and you can take a bath there while colorful fishes swim around you.
The beach has a very good infrastructure, because you can find almost whatever you want, but does not loose the sense of virginity.
Praia Do Rosa Brazil
Praia do Rosa (Rose Beach) is a crescent shaped beach-bay surrounded by lagoons and hills covered with wild vegetation. It has 3 kms/1.8 miles of extension and initially this beach was discovered during the seventies by surfers, who enjoyed Praia do Rosa´s excellent waves.
Not only surfers could have fun in Praia do Rosa, but also you will find other activities like hiking/tramping, horseback riding and lagoon and waterfall baths. The beauty of this beach bay is recognized worldwide, being the only bay in Brazil to be part of the "Most Beautiful Bays of the World Club", which comes with UNESCO´S official seal.
Morro Do Sao Paulo
Morro de Sao Paulo (St. Paul's Hill) is one of the most desired tropical destinations in the world, and ranks very high in the Top Brazil's Beaches, because it still has clean sand, palm trees, crystal and warm water containing colorful fish living in deserted beaches.
Just for you to imagine, the Morro is a kind of volcano, with the beaches on the bottom, and the houses (or "pousadas", as the local says) in the top. So you can live at the top of hill with a fantastic landscape, and go down just to go to the beach. To make things quieter, cars are prohibited in Morro do Sao Paulo. Only four wheel drives and tractors are used to access the more remote spots, and there are no streets, just alleys.
Porto Galinhas beach Brazil
Porto de Galinhas (Port of Chickens Beach) is in our selection the second best beach in Brazil. This spectacular beach changed from a fisherman village to a very popular destination for domestic travelers, that are hypnotized by its beauty and happy about the medium level of infrastructure that the beach has developed.
The history of the beach name is very interesting. In the 19th century, Brazilian government prohibited the slave commerce, which was very common in Recife until then. So, pirates had to create a solution to continue bringing slaves to Brazil avoiding the law, and then they started delivering slaves to other beaches more deserted, like for example Suape and Ipojuca. When the "black ships" (named that was given to the ships that commerce slaves) arrives to the port, to avoid suspicious the code message was "there are new chickens in the beach", where chickens were obviously the slaves; hence, the beach get the name of Port of Chickens Beach.
Jericoacora beach Brazil
Twenty years ago this beach was a simple fishing village with no electricity. Nowadays, the place has grown on infrastructure but keeps all the peace and tranquility that you will expect from a place like this. The main reason for this is that for accessing to this beach you will have to use a 4 wheel vehicle to pass dirty roads. And even once you arrive in Jericoacoara beach you will find that most of the streets in the village are covered by sand, so to move yourself in the beach you will have to walk or drive a buggy.
The meaning of the word Jericoacoara is Hole of Turtles, and came from the fact that lots of turtles comes to this beach to dig holes to lay their eggs. So you can expect to see a lot of turtles in Jericoacoara beach.
But what is really incredible about Jericocoara beach is the sunset. In fact, one of the most popular activities is to go to the Sunset Dune, in the west part of the beach, and watch the sun in confrontation with the dune. At night, is also impressive to watch the sky as it is one of the most astonishing view of a clean limpid sky you could ever had.
Ipanema Beach Brazil
The Ipanema beach is one of the best beaches of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, and one of the most famous of the world. Immortalized in worldwide well-known song of Tom Jobim, "Garota de Ipanema", that in fact was based on the beauty of the beach and the grace and the sexuality of the Brazilian women, Ipanema is one of these beaches that not only stand out for his beauty, but also for the adrenaline that surrounds it: many persons, bars, restaurants, movement . exactly the opposite from a beach to find peace and calmness, but the ideal beach to know the Brazilian culture and to make friends.
Also, Ipanema is located in an expensive quarter of Rio de Janeiro, reason for being considered to be the beach more "chic" of the "wonderful city". Ipanema divides his approximately 2 kilometers long, in different sectors like the familiar, the one for lonely girls, the homosexuals part, the sports one, etc.
Fernando De Noronha (Brazil)
Fernando de Noronha is a group of 21 volcanic islands 340 miles from Recife, Pernambuco, which was declared National Marine Park since 1988, in order to protect land and marine vegetation as well as land animals and marine life. In fact is difficult to catalogue Fernando de Noronha as a beach, because is a group of islands with many beaches, but we at Brazil Beaches decided to do it because will be unfair to make a ranking of the best beaches in Brazil and not include the most beautiful place in the whole country. The most important island in Fernando de Noronha, who has the same name as the group of islands, has 7.1 square miles and the total population rise to 2,100 inhabitants. Here you can find interesting historic sites to visit, like the ruins of Fort of Sao Pedro, but of course the main attraction at Fernando de Noronha is its islands and beaches. Besides Fernando de Noronha itself you can find other 20 islands and you can divide the beaches in two groups: the ones pointing Brazil (10 beaches and a Dolphin Bay) and the ones pointing Africa (4 beaches, lot of swimming pools and one creek).
Pipa Beach Brazil
This beach is located in the southern end of the coast of Rio Grande do Norte, and is just 90 KM from Natal and has 10 km of beaches where you can swim, take a romantic walk, contemplate nature surrounded by golden sands, natural pools of warm waters, coconut palms and spectacular cliffs. Besides, this beach is usually visited by turtles and dolphins, so you can take a look at them from the different viewpoints or even play with the animals while taking a bath in the ocean. The beach is known as Pipa because of the stones that you can find in it, that seemed to be barrels of wine or, at nights, spirits. This fact increase the mystery that evolve the beach and help to create a lot of legend related to the pirates that in the past came here to steal the most famous Brazilian wood (Pau Brazil).
A lot of activities can be done in this beach: for surfing, Pipa has excellent waves; for canoeing this beach also count with calm waters surrounded by lovely sceneries; for horse riding you can explore trails through the Atlantic forest. In this beach the concept of luxurious villa has taken another step and you can find villas even better that some hotels in Brazil.
Copacabana Beach Brazil
The Copacabana beach is probably the most famous beach in Brazil, and why not, one of the most famous beaches in the world. But what does that this beach so famous? The first explanation is that Copacabana is one of the beaches in Rio de Janeiro, the wonderful city, where resides Christ, one of the seven modern marvels and a symbol of Brazil. In addition to that, Copacabana is a 4 kilometers long wide beach framed by the hills of Rio de Janeiro and where millions of "cariocas" (the inhabitants of Rio) meet to enjoy what the Brazilians more like: beach, the sun, beer and nice women in bikinis.
It is certainly one of the most crowded beaches of Brazil, and for that reason it has the necessary infrastructure to attend so many clients. Restaurants, pubs, street vendors, infinity of courts of Beach Volley, and an incomparable whirlpool, turns Copacabana in the New York of the beaches, where everything happens, where the people socialize, coexist and enjoy the beauty of his waters. Immersed in Samba rhythm, Copacabana presents itself as the ideal beach to meet and to contact the Brazilians. Of course, when the sun falls down or when is very strong, there can be covered all the tourist attractions that Rio de Janeiro offers: Redeeming Christ, the Botanical garden, the mythical stadium Maracaná and much more.
Canua Quebrada Beach (Brazil)
Canua Quebrada is an old and small village installed on cliffs that was discovered and popularized by the hippies in the sixties. This beach has transparent water surrounded by enormous multicolored dunes. From the top of these dunes, you could see what the locals call "the magic sunset" or, at night of full moon, the sea becomes a silver mirror where you can see a dancing moon moving across the sea. The nature of this beach is fragile, and for that reason a special attention must be given to the dunes and cliffs and any construction in the beach is allowed only after a detailed study and considering that destruction of the vegetation is prohibited. This beach is in a Protected Area that was created in 1998 to protect the area and keep untouched all natural attractions as well as local flora and fauna.
Brackley beach (P.E.I)
Brackely Beach, located in Prince Edward Island National Park, offers long stretches of pristine sandy beaches and majestic dunes of the sort that enthusiasts of the Anne of Green Gables miniseries are sure to recognize. But look for conservation measures along the dunes: unique flora and fauna is protected by National Parks initiatives along the shoreline.
While you're in the park, of course, visit the literary landmark Green Gables – it may feel a bit touristy, but it's also a Canadian traveller rite of passage.
Malmerby Beach (Nova Scotia)
Nova Scotia's Northumberland Shore offers some of the warmest waters north of the Carolinas. Melmerby's mile-long sand beach is one of the finest beaches in the province and a fantastic saltwater destination. Nearby New Glasgow offers historic sights, an artistic community, and fantastic shopping and dining.
Qualicum Beach (British Columbia)
Qualicum Beach is one of the “grande dames” of Canadian seaside destinations, and a truly traditional beach resort town. Its location and sandy beaches make it a popular spot for swimming and beachcombing. It offers lovely views of the Strait of Georgia, Texada and Lasqueti Islands as well as the Coast Mountain Range.
The town itself offers a sense of Vancouver Island culture – with beautiful and extensive private garden, local theatre, jazz events, and several museums just a few of the ways to appreciate the area. There's also a strong natural heritage here, with several provincial parks within driving distance.
Devonshire Beach Alberta, Canada
The 7 km of beaches within the Lesser Slave Lake provincial park are simply stunning – white sand and inviting water. But Devonshire Beach is something special indeed, with rare sand dune ecology that goes back 1500 years. It's also the site of an annual sand building competition. You can also view the lake from the 983-metre Marten Mountain Viewpoint, within the provincial park.
The town of Slave Lake itself is a hub for recreation and activity when you've had enough of the tranquil peace of the provincial park. While you're in the area, enjoy the Riverboat Daze, the Lesser Slave Lake Song Bird Festival and annual fishing Tournaments in the area and along the lake as well.
Sauble Beach Ontario, Canada
Located along the shore of Lake Huron west of Owen Sound, Ontario, Sauble Beach was voted the best freshwater beach in Canada by Reader's Digest readers this year. There's a reason for that too – 11 km of sandy beach. Creating by sandbar deposits, the water is shallow and warm which makes it a treat for young and old alike.
The town of Sauble Beach is friendly, and the beach's reputation means there are enough visitors to keep the people-watching intriguing. But for those who want to explore beyond the confines of a towel on the sand, the area also offers a unique chance to commune with nature -- the Bruce Peninsula National Park, a world biosphere preserve, and a little further a field, the Fathom Five National Marine Park -- home to 22 ship wrecks and several lighthouses.
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