50 Beaches to Blow Your Mind

by Ben Handicott

From the people who have been delivering trustworthy guidebooks to every destination in the world for 40 years, Lonely Planet's 50 Beaches To Blow Your Mind helps you discover the planet's most pristine, jaw-dropping, wild and wonderful sandy spots. This pocket-sized book is the perfect gift for any sun-worshipper or beach-lover and is the ultimate guide to the world's best beaches.

A beach always feels like the ultimate escape, with the sound of the waves lapping against the shore, which science says has a calming effect on our brain activity. And then there's the guaranteed hit of vitamin D our exposed skin absorbs.

Whether you're looking for black-sand beaches, high-octane watersport hotspots, secret bays or the finest palm-fringed tropical paradises, Lonely Planet shows you where and how to find them. So pack your beach towel and hit the sands.



Bliss // Tropical desert island paradises

Cabbage Beach // Nassau, Bahamas Crane Beach // Barbados Flamenco Beach // Culebra, Puerto Rico Green Island Beach // Green Island, Antigua & Barbuda Hanalei Beach // Hawaii, USA Nalaguraidhoo Beach // South Ari Atoll, Maldives Drama // Wild & unusual beaches

Bowling Ball Beach // Mendocino, California, US Giant's Causeway // County Antrim, Northern Ireland Gulpiyuri Beach // near Llanes, Spain Hidden Beach // Puerta Vallarta, Marieta Islands, Mexico Action // Surfing & diving meccas

Bells Beach // Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia Biarritz Beach // Biarritz, France Bondi Beach // Sydney, Australia Ehukai Beach // Hawaii, USA Discovery // Beaches for combing & exploring

Charmouth Beach // Dorset, UK Conche des Baleines // Ile de Re, France Navagio Beach // Zakynthos, Greece Squeaky Beach // Wilson's Promontory, Australia Parties // Social & nightlife beaches

Bacvice Beach // Split, Croatia Copacabana // Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gulf Shore Beach // Alabama, USA Paradise Beach // Mykonos, Greece Encounters // Wildlife & conservation hotspots

Agonda Beach // Goa, India Diani Beach // Mombasa, Kenya Espiguette Beach // Le Grau du Roi, France Manuel Antonio Beach // Puntarenas, Costa Rica Family // Calm, safe all-rounders for all comers

Brandinchi Cove // Sardinia, Italy Koh Kood (Koh Kut) // Trat Province, Thailand Porthcurno // Cornwall, UK Praia de Mira // Mira, Portugal Will Rogers State Beach // Malibu, California, USA About Lonely Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

118 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 17, 2016

Reviews

[Gal · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had read the same text 50 times.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

It looks like a dull blog post, far from an article and nothing like a book.

[Mielejt · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are so many more...



French Polynesia... Yes please! Maldives too! Can't wait to visit Cornwall and finish all my Scotland beaches. Greece looks intriguing.

[Erica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well...that was a very quick yet not very informative read. The photography was excellent and the photos were breathtaking. I wished there had been more information about the beaches and how to get to them, etc., like in normal lonely planet books but that was not the case here. The book definitely made me long for a vacation, though!

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a short book about beaches. I was neither impressed nor disappointed.

I did appreciate that it embraced a wide variety of beaches and included col, but beautiful shorelines in Iceland and the British Isles.

[Shamsher Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very thoughtfully curated list and descriptions.

This is a book for any free-spirited soul who has the happy-go-lucky attitude alongwith pennies in his/her pocket. A mesmerizing rendezvous with the most bountiful lot of beaches all over the world awaits you !

[Bradley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is visual porn during the 2020 covid-19 pandemic. It's exactly what it says it is, 50 beautiful beaches that I want to visit.

#popsugarsummerreading
Prompt: book with a body of water or pool on the cover

[Adrienne Bibb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informative

Good source and very informative. Not as much info on how to get to certain beaches but just enough to peak interest and do more research on your own.

[garfunkelgrass · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was in Bali and had some currency I needed to spend before returning to the states. At the airport I didn't see anything I wanted until I saw this. The beaches in Bali are some of the best in the world, and it was a nice souvenir. I ended up removing all the pages and making a beach photo collage that I plastered on my wall; the ocean is my favorite place in the world.