Stone Town Zanzibar
Stone Town is Zanzibar’s UNESCO-listed old quarter — a 19th-century Swahili trading hub of coral-stone buildings, carved wooden doors, and landmarks like the House of Wonders and the Old Fort.
Diving: Destinations & Places
Scuba diving travel guides covering top dive sites, certification destinations, liveaboard reviews, and seasonal visibility data from the Red Sea to the Coral Triangle.
-
-
Laganas Zakynthos
Zakynthos’s busiest beach resort — a long sandy bay on the island’s south coast, lively nightlife, and a gateway to the loggerhead turtle nesting grounds of Marathonisi and the Bay of Laganas.
-
Aldea Zama Tulum
Tulum’s polished, master-planned neighborhood between downtown and the beach zone — modern condos, wellness studios, and the free Cenote Aldea Zama, a favorite of digital nomads.
-
Tamarindo Beach Tamarindo
Costa Rica’s most popular Pacific surf town on the Guanacaste coast — a long golden beach, reliable waves for all levels, and a lively beachfront dining and nightlife strip.
-
-
Gros Islet Castries
A lively fishing town in northern St. Lucia — known for its Friday-night street party (the ‘jump-up’), nearby Rodney Bay and Reduit Beach, and easy access to Pigeon Island.
-
Playa Del Carmen Riviera Maya
The heart of Playa del Carmen on the Riviera Maya — the pedestrian Quinta Avenida promenade of shops and restaurants running parallel to a wide white-sand Caribbean beach.
-
Manuel Antonio Quepos
Costa Rica’s most popular national park near Quepos — white-sand beaches backed by rainforest, home to sloths and the endangered Central American squirrel monkey.
-
Bavaro Punta Cana
The resort strip of Punta Cana on the Dominican Republic’s east coast — a long white-sand, palm-backed Caribbean beach lined with all-inclusive resorts and adventure parks.
-
Downtown Quepos
The working-town gateway to Manuel Antonio National Park — a Costa Rican Pacific port with the Marina Pez Vela, a seafront Malecón, fresh seafood, and budget-friendly Tico eats.
-
Spiaggia Grande Positano
Positano’s main beach — a lively stretch of grey sand and pebbles framed by the town’s cliffside pastel houses, lined with beach clubs and the port for Amalfi Coast ferries.
-
Centro Playa Del Carmen
The walkable downtown heart of Playa del Carmen — built around the pedestrian Quinta Avenida, steps from the beach and the ferry to Cozumel, dense with hotels, dining, and nightlife.
-
Ton Sai Village
The car-free commercial heart of Phi Phi Don, set on a sandy isthmus between Ton Sai and Loh Dalum bays, with pedestrian lanes of shops, tavernas, dive shops and bars.
-
Old Phuket Town Phuket
Phuket’s historic quarter — restored Sino-Portuguese shophouses along Thalang Road, with cafés, boutiques, street art, and a lively Sunday walking-street market.
-
Jungut Batu Nusa Lembongan
The main beach village of Nusa Lembongan, a white-sand arc with surf breaks, beach warungs and dive operators, looking across the strait to Bali’s Mount Agung.
-
Kelingking Beach Nusa Penida
Nusa Penida’s most iconic site, a dinosaur-shaped limestone headland nicknamed the T-Rex cliff, with a steep ridge trail descending to a white-sand cove above turquoise water.
-
Waikiki Honolulu
Honolulu’s famed beachfront neighborhood on Oahu’s south shore, birthplace of modern surfing, lined with historic resorts along Kalakaua Avenue beneath the Diamond Head crater.
-
Baie des Citrons
A sheltered, family-friendly beach cove minutes from central Noumea, New Caledonia, with calm swimming water and a lively waterfront strip of bars, restaurants and ice-cream terraces.
-
Maharepa Moorea
The main tourist village on Moorea’s north coast in French Polynesia, beside Cook’s Bay, with shops, black-pearl boutiques and lagoon-front restaurants near the island’s big resorts.
-
Old Town Mostar
A UNESCO-listed Ottoman old town in Bosnia spanning the Neretva gorge, centered on the rebuilt 16th-century Stari Most bridge and the Kujundziluk coppersmiths’ bazaar.
-
Kaunakakai Molokai
The main town of rural Molokai in Hawaii, a single block of 1930s tin-roofed storefronts with no traffic lights, beside a 1,900-foot wharf, the longest in the state.
-
Lahaina Maui
Maui’s historic west-coast town, a former whaling port and royal capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, whose Front Street and plantation-era landmarks were destroyed in the August 2023 wildfire and are being rebuilt.
-
Le Caudan Waterfront Mauritius
A waterfront shopping and leisure complex on Port Louis harbour in Mauritius, opened in 1996, with shops, a craft market, restaurants, cinemas, a casino, marina and the Caudan Arts Centre.
-
Valletta Valletta
Malta’s fortified capital, built by the Knights of St. John after the 1565 Great Siege — a UNESCO World Heritage city known for baroque St John’s Co-Cathedral and its Caravaggio masterpiece.