Tag: Beaches
Tulum, Mexico’s clifftop Maya city - Seaside ruins, cenote swims and the wild Sian Ka’an coast
Five hundred years ago, Maya traders watched for canoes from this cliff. Today the same view comes with a swimsuit, a fresh coconut and...
Santa Pola, Spain - Things to do in the Costa Blanca fishing town facing Tabarca Island
Five centuries ago, a stone fortress here watched the horizon for Berber pirates. Today it watches fishing boats bring in red prawns at sunset.Santa...
Alicante - Your base for castle views, Tabarca boat trips and Costa Blanca beaches
Land at lunchtime and by mid-afternoon you can be eating rice on a palm-lined promenade, with a Moorish fortress watching from the rock above.Alicante...
Where to stay in Santa Ponsa - 8 hotels for families, couples and every budget
Half the hotels in this resort are a two-minute walk from the sand. The trick is picking the right two minutes.Santa Ponsa is one...
First time in Nerja? The Balcón de Europa, a cave of giant columns and coves below the Maro cliffs
In January 1959, five young men went hunting for bats in a sinkhole above the sea. What they found underground still makes visitors stop...
Things to do in Tossa de Mar, the only walled medieval town on the Catalan coast
In 1934 Marc Chagall spent a summer on this bay and called it his blue paradise. More than ninety years on, the water is...