Whether you swim or surf, be careful as Ocean Beach has very strong rip currents. Black’s is located about 1km north of the Scripps Pier and just to the South of the Torrey Pines Glider Port (port or park I am not really sure…I just know they fly big kites there). Most of the Black’s [...]
Zanzibar’s brilliant white beaches lapped by the warm turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean provide the perfect place to relax, soak up the sun and take a break from some busy sightseeing. The beaches in Zanzibar are a paradise, interspersed with picturesque fishing villages, where the people live a simple way of life, unchanged over [...]
Byron Bay is a town replete with accommodation, but it is not necessarily cheap, since demand keeps up well with, and sometimes even outstrips, supply. Even backpackers accommodation tends to be rather more expensive than one might expect. Byron Bay is about 800 km north of Sydney and 200 km south of Brisbane. Cape Byron, [...]
What has made Rio famous is its Carnival. Just north of Recife is the beautiful colonial town of Olinda, which has one of Brazil’s best carnival celebrations. The travel highlight (in terms of beaches) of this region is undoubtedly Fernando de Noronha, which Brazilians will tell you has the best beaches in Brazil. Rio de [...]