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Beach travel guides covering the world’s best coastlines — from Caribbean white sand to Greek volcanic black sand — with hotel picks, swim safety notes, and seasonal advice from the ViaTravelers team.

  • Kaunakakai Molokai

    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.

  • Monte Carlo Monaco

    Monte Carlo Monaco

    Monaco’s glamorous district around the Belle Epoque Casino de Monte-Carlo and Place du Casino, lined with luxury hotels and the yacht-filled Port Hercule, and a centerpiece of the Grand Prix circuit.

  • Le Mont Mont Saint Michel

    Le Mont Mont Saint Michel

    A Gothic Benedictine abbey crowning a tidal island off Normandy, ringed by a medieval village whose Grande Rue climbs to the Wonder of the West amid some of Europe’s highest tides.

  • Little Havana

    Little Havana

    The heart of Miami’s Cuban community, centered on Calle Ocho (SW 8th Street) with cafes, cigar shops, murals and the domino players of Maximo Gomez (Domino) Park.

  • Le Panier Marseille

    Le Panier Marseille

    Marseille’s oldest quarter, founded as ancient Massalia, a hillside maze of narrow stepped lanes above the Vieux-Port and home to the Baroque Vieille Charite.

  • Lahaina Maui

    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

    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

    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.

  • Centar Makarska

    Centar Makarska

    The heart of Makarska on Croatia’s Adriatic coast, set between Mount Biokovo and the sea, with a palm-lined Riva promenade and the 1776 St. Mark’s Church on Kačić Square.

  • Centro Histórico Málaga

    Centro Histórico Málaga

    Málaga’s historic core on the Costa del Sol, home to the Moorish Alcazaba, the Renaissance cathedral known as La Manquita, Picasso’s birthplace and the marble shopping street Calle Larios.

  • Echo Park Los Angeles

    Echo Park Los Angeles

    Echo Park sits just northwest of downtown Los Angeles around its 1860s lake, known for lotus blooms, swan pedal boats, skyline views and the Victorian homes of Angelino Heights.

  • Echo Park

    Echo Park

    A artistic, lakeside, hipster neighborhood ideal for Artists, young professionals, nature lovers in city.

  • Kuta Lombok

    Kuta Lombok

    Kuta is a laid-back beach town on southern Lombok and the hub of the Mandalika resort area, known for its surf breaks, white-sand beaches like Tanjung Aan and Merese Hill’s views.

  • Miraflores Lima

    Miraflores Lima

    Upscale clifftop district on Lima’s Pacific coast, known for the Malecón parks overlooking the ocean, the cliffside Larcomar shopping center and lively Parque Kennedy.

  • Barranco

    Barranco

    Lima’s bohemian, coastal district filled with street art, galleries and old mansions, centered on the 1877 Puente de los Suspiros (Bridge of Sighs).

  • Sirmione Lake Garda

    Sirmione Lake Garda

    Sirmione is a narrow peninsula town on southern Lake Garda, crowned by the moated 13th-century Scaliger Castle, the Roman Grotte di Catullo villa ruins, and sulphur-rich thermal springs.

  • Lanai City Lanai

    Lanai City Lanai

    Lanai City is Hawaii’s historic plantation town on Lānaʻi, built by James Dole in the 1920s around Norfolk-pine-shaded Dole Park, with vintage shops, local eateries, and the 1923 Hotel Lanai.

  • The Strip Las Vegas

    The Strip Las Vegas

    The Las Vegas Strip is a 4.2-mile stretch of South Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County’s Paradise and Winchester, lined with the megaresort casinos, showrooms, and nightlife that define modern Las Vegas.