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Far away from the commercial clatter, you can truly escape the worst and access the best in Acapulco. Here is one way to enjoy Las Playas, the cliff divers and pozole Thursdays
Asia’s Finest Beach | Brent Hannon | Philippines, Visayas, Boracay
On the other side are the realists. They like their rooms cold, their showers hot, and their swimming pools warm. They want in-room safes and room service and Internet
Copacabana 24/7 | Mark Jolly | Brazil, Rio and the Southeast, Rio de Janeiro
Copacabana - one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the world - is everybody's backyard and then some. It is, as John Steinbeck said of New York, "all of everything"
No Beach Too Far | Joe Cummings | Thailand, Southern Thailand: The Gulf Coast, Koh Phi Phi
The protagonists at the center of the novel are so convinced that the Lonely Planet guide to Thailand is to blame for crowding on Ko Pha-Ngan and other Thai islands favored by international backpackers
Size Matters | Alf Alderson | United States, California, San Francisco
For a select few surfers, winter is the time of year they really look forward to, when the big swells arrive and they can challenge themselves up against waves the size of buildings
The Real Greek | Lucretia Stewart | Greece, Cyclades (south), Naxos
To the east of Naxos, the largest (and most beautiful) of the Cyclades, lie four tiny, exquisite, virtually uninhabited islands, the Small Cyclades or Mikres Kyklades
The South Atlantic’s Best-Kept Secret | Mark Jolly | Brazil, The Northern Beaches, Fernando de Noronha
The archipelago conjures something almost mythical in the minds of most Brazilians, for whom a trip here is so absurdly expensive that it's a lifelong impossibility. Yet beyond Latin America, these islands are almost unheard of
Men venture off into the milky blue sea to spear fish from outrigger canoes...
Wave Theory | Nick Maes | Australia, New South Wales, Byron Bay
It is impossible to get any further east on the Australian mainland than Cape Byron - a ridiculously photogenic finger of land that prods the Pacific and stirs up waves