10 most amazing beaches in the world

Here's a selection of amazing beaches — but today it is not the standard areas for recreation, and really unusual places. Some of them were the result of human activity, others can be called wonders created by nature itself.

1. Beach Benagil, Portugal

Portuguese Benagil beach is located near the resort of the Algarve, located in the South of the country on the Atlantic coast. Photographers, romance and courting couples from all over the world come here to enjoy the fantastic beauty of the caves of the Algarve which can be reached only from the sea.

The cave leads to an arched entrance, and its dome has a large circular hole through which sunlight penetrates, creating a unique atmosphere.

2. Hidden beach, Mexico

Hidden beach (Hidden Beach) on the island of Marietta, just a few kilometers from the coast of Mexico, known as one of the most picturesque places on earth.

In the early 1900s the island was used by the Mexican government for military testing, and not so long ago learned about it the tourists and found an amazing secluded beach, in a circle covered with natural rock formations, protecting his guests from the scorching sun. To get to the beach, visitors have to swim through a short tunnel.

Thanks to the photos on the Internet and social networks on the beach recognized worldwide as fans of the place gave him a new romantic name — Playa De Amor, or love Beach.

3. Pink beach, Bahamas

The Bahamas are a Paradise for relaxation, but on one of the Islands of the archipelago, tourists will have an unforgettable picture, namely the scenery of the Pink Sands Beach — amazing beach with pink sand.

Pink Sands Beach stretches along the shore of harbour island, nearly 5 miles, and the sand is painted in an intense pink color. This unusual shade of the beach give the particles in the shells of molluscs and tiny fragments of corals, which are mixed with sand.

The construction of any facilities on this beach is prohibited. Landscape adds only tall palm trees and sun loungers for guests. Forbes magazine named Pink Sands Beach the most beautiful beach in the world.

4. Glass beach, California

A long time ago on one of the beaches on the coast of California was a garbage dump. Household waste, glass and even broken cars for years to accumulate along the coastline in Fort Bragg.

Some of the debris was removed, another was burned, and broken bottles and glasses left. The ocean eventually grind their sharp corners, and on the surface of the beach is left to Shine with colored glass, similar to faceted precious stones.

5. The beach of the cathedrals, Spain

Spanish dаs Catedrais Praia is located near the town of Ribadeo, in the province of Lugo (Galicia). Its unusual name comes from the rock formations, the arches of which are similar to the arches of Gothic cathedrals.

If you wait for low tide, you can wander through the majestic stone corridors, lined with a soft, damp sand, and look into the cave during high tide from the prying eyes guards the sea.

6. The Beach Koekohe, New Zealand

The main attraction of the new Zealand beach koekohe (Koekohe) — huge boulders almost perfectly round Moeraki Boulders. Scientists estimate that they were formed by erosion about 60 million years ago, and the formation of large boulders left at least 4 million years.

People with a good imagination believe that the Moeraki Boulders is nothing like fossilized dinosaur eggs.

7. Black beach Punaluu, Hawaii

Located between the National Park of Hawaiian volcanoes and the small town of Naalehu, Punaluu Black Sand Beach is considered the black beach in the world and represents a truly unforgettable sight.

Coconut palms fringe the edge of the dark sand formed from basalt, a volcanic substance, trapped in the sea as a result of the eruptions.

With Punaluu is forbidden to take sand as a souvenir. Local tell scary stories about a strict goddess who will bring down his wrath, and inflict misery on everyone who will take a piece of the beach, and in confirmation of his words show the tourists a collection of small bottles, which allegedly was brought back to disobey travellers.

8. Atoll Vaadhoo, Maldives

On this beach it seems that the border between sky and sea does not exist. When night falls, billions of tiny lights blue light lights up at the water's edge. This is bioluminescence — the wonderful phenomenon when live microorganisms (phytoplankton) react to oxygen and converts its energy into a soft light, illuminating the surf.

9. Shelly Beach, Australia

Scenic Shell Beach, located on the Eastern side of the Peninsula Peron, has a length of almost 60 km. Instead of sand it is covered with trillions of white shells — tiny shells of Fragum erugatum clam.

The water in the Bay is very salty, and adapt to it other organisms are unable, but these clams feel great and have multiplied in an incredible amount. The remains of their activity covered the kilometers of the coastal line, and now tourists enjoy coming here for the beautiful photos.

10. Maho Beach, Saint Martin

Tourists who visit this beach on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, waiting for a wonderful sight: here the planes fly right over the heads of tourists. The thing is that the end of the runway of Princess Juliana international airport is located right next to Maho. As the aircraft land as close as possible to its beginning, the tourists have a unique opportunity in all the details of flying the ship.

Because of the constant noise of engines fans to relax on the Golden Sands of Maho is almost there, but full of hunters unique shots. For example, with appropriate perspective, it is easy to "catch" the plane's tail.