10 beaches where you can do without pink glasses
If there were a patent for the use of color, then pink would definitely be redeemed by the female half of humanity under the age of twenty. Indeed, the abundance of the most carefree of shades in our burdened lives is sometimes as annoying as traffic jams. But even the most desperate opponents of "vanilla" cannot deny that sometimes pink is so beautiful that it's not even embarrassing to tell your biker friends about it. The beaches of this delicate shade are just the case, so if it seems to you that your life lacks colors, then feel free to plan your vacation on one of the pink coasts. We even made a list of the top 10 so everyone knows what kind of paradise awaits them.
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1. Elafonisi beach in Crete
Elafonisi is located in the southern part of the Greek island of Crete. The pink sands of this beach can be reached on foot through shallow water in some months.
2. Spiaggia Rosa Budelli in Sardinia
The Italian island of Budelli is part of the Maddalen archipelago in northern Sardinia. Spiaggia Rosa is rightfully considered its most famous beach, the sands of which are given a pink tint by shells of foraminifers and other marine microorganisms crushed over thousands of years.
3. Komodo Beach in Indonesia
Of the 17.5 thousand islands of Indonesia, it was Komodo that was lucky to have such an attraction as a pink beach, which owes its color to corals, of which there are a great many. In addition, the island became famous due to the fact that the largest class of lizards in the world lives here, simply called the Komodo dragon.
4. Horseshoe Bay Beach in Bermuda
The island of Horseshoe Bay in the North Atlantic Ocean got its name because its shape really resembles a horseshoe. The pink beach on it deserves the word "pink" in the name, but then it would probably become too long - Horseshoe Bay Pink Beach.
5. Pink Beach on Great Santa Cruz
Great Santa Cruz is one of the islands adjacent to the Philippine city of Zamboanga. At the same time, the city itself is mostly located on the island of Mindano. The pink color of the sand on this beach is due to the presence of reddish coral chips in its composition.
6. Beaches on the island of Barbuda
Barbuda and Antigua are two twin islands located between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The difference between them can only be felt due to the abundance of pink on the beaches in the southwest of Barbuda and its absence in neighboring Antigua.
7. Balos Laguna Beach in Crete
This beach can be found by visiting the Greek island of Gramvousa off the coast of Crete. The lagoon is surrounded by a large number of rock formations that seem to guard the pink treasure of the sands and the purest waters of the local beach.
8. Tangsi Beach on Lombok
Lombok is part of the Indonesian Lesser Sunda Islands. Its main attraction is Tangsi Beach, whose sands are considered to be among the pinkest in the world.
9. Bonaire Pink Beach in the Caribbean
Bonaire Island is one of the three "corners" of the Leeward Antilles that form the so-called ABC triangle (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao) in the Caribbean.
10. Harbor Island in the Bahamas
This island is one of the administrative districts of the Bahamas in the Atlantic Ocean. The length of the local pink beach is almost 5 kilometers, and in one gram of sand here you can find several hundred living individuals of foraminifera and even more ground remains of their shells.