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Boulders Beach – World Famous For Its Colony of African Penguins
Boulders Beach is a protected beach made up of inlets between granite boulders, from which the name is found. It is situated in Cape Peninsula, near Simon’s Town towards Cape Point near Cape Town in Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is also usually known as Boulders Bay. It is a famous tourist stop because of African Penguins colony, which developed there in the year 1982. It basically forms a part of Table Mountain National Park. Albeit is set in the middle of a residential region, Boulders Beach is one of the few sites where there are vulnerable birds that can be seen at a close range. With just two breeding pairs of Penguins in 1982 it has grown to about 3000 in current years.
Boulders Beach is bordered mostly by indigenous bush above False Bay’s clear water on one side and [...]
Kenya’s heavenly beaches
Kenya is better known for its wildlife and safaris, but the country also has a veritable wealth in the form of its pristine beaches. Kenya has an impressive 500 kilo meter odd coastline, and this is filled with some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Swaying palm trees, pristine snow white sands and crystal clear blue waters, Kenyan beaches are a class apart. The unsullied beaches of Kenya has a good amount of tourists coming here, but the crowding is a lot less that the more famous beach destinations, the Caribbean for instance. The development in these beaches is substantial, although not that much to the point of spoiling the unsullied aura.
There are some excellent resorts and hotels that have sprung up here with the advent of tourism, and there are many good options that you [...]
Top beach resorts in the world
Beach resort vacation is best thing in world, where you just chill and relax or play beach volley ball or swimming, surfing, snorkeling, scuba diving or just taking stroll hand in hand together on the beach. Listed down are the top most destinations for beach resorts in world.
Seychelles
Most of your desktop backgrounds of beaches are of this destination only as this is most photographed beach in world, with pale pink sands of the Anse Source d’Argent unfurling across island of the La Digue, which is one from 115 components islands and islets of the archipelago in the blues of Indian Ocean. The sparkling of sands against the backdrop of soaring granite boulders, worn out by waves, weather and time. The azure hue of water is comparatively shallow as well protected from ocean’s waves by [...]
A quite holiday at South Africa’s Noordhoek Beach
The Noordhoek Beach is one of the best beaches in the lovely nation of South Africa. This beach is ranked as the longest on the Atlantic Seaboard on the Cape Peninsula. The beach has also made its mark in films and the popular Ryan’s Daughter movie was actually shot on the shores of the Noordhoek.
The exact location of Noordhoek is in the famous Simons Town in the Western Cape region of South Africa. The geographical coordinates of the place are 34° 6′ 0″ South, 18° 22′ 0″ East.
The natives of the areas in and around the beach refer the place as “Long Beach.” The logic behind this reasoning goes to the fact; the beach is the longest in the region and boasts of a 5-mile long coastline. Outside the boundaries of coastline, a striking feature of the town is [...]
Hunting for gold at Oudekraal Beach
Cape Town, the second most populous city located in South Africa is the paradise for tourists. People from all walks of life and from all over the world visits Cape Town for some or the other reason. Well, no doubt, Cape Town is a well-known tourist destination that offers amazing landscape and other attractions. Cape Town is the largest city that forms part of the Cape Town metropolitan municipality city. Cape Town is renowned for its harbour and also for its natural setting that could be better seen in the Cape floral kingdom. The well-known landmarks of the city are Table Mountain and Cape Point.
With the rising tourists, Cape Town is the most popular tourist destination of Africa. Being among the world’s most multi-cultural cities, Cape Town offers beautiful beaches as well. Due to the [...]
Seychelles: Ordinary land with extraordinary marvels
One word for Seychelles is EXTRAORDINAIRE
Seychelles is charisma is in its extraordinary island paradise, Seychelles is sensuous with unique Vallee de Mai, it’s claimed to the original site of The Garden of Eden such is its sensual, astonishing surreal beauty, ‘an island of love’ Seychelles presents you with the place where romance blossoms, a natural in flow of feelings, sentiments as the waves are caressing the shores in the moon light. Seychellois are unsophisticated people who are very warm, welcoming you with an open embrace and most important they themselves extraordinary with those smiles on their face- its contagious you know! As you go to Seychelles you are bound to be just happy, blissful, cheerful and in high spirits. The diversity of the Seychelles landscape is in these one [...]
Casablanca: Immortalized Beach Resort
A romance and mystical appeal of movie Casablanca has added to already fame of Casablanca, though over the years and in reality Casablanca has total make over as contemporary and dynamic with all modern day lifestyle with sprawl of avenues and concords along with noisy traffic jams with little romance, yet that magic has not completely left the place and it is still lurking in many places that you must keep a look out for. A place of aspirational North America, host to many financial and international institutions and centre of Banks and hub for all financial circuit this side, it is a running a race in financial sector with business oriented and forward looking attitude and as one of the busiest ports of this region Casablanca has come a long way and yet has taken with itself the stunning [...]
Fishing pirogues lined up at twilight: Bakau Beach
Bakau Beach is small town which will take you back in years where people had no watch but had time for each other and away from place where people have watch (Tag Heur and Cartier!) but no time for each other. Bakau Beach is a beautiful sight to see when you see the fishing pirogues lined on the shore in the twilight when the fishermen come over to take it and still practice the old age method of fishing and take boats in water. The Bakau beach brings you closer to be more human then machine and brings you close to the authentic life that was more hard work yet relaxing in end of the day then the life today with less physical hard work but filled with hassles and stress in the night. Tucked on a low cliff between the River Gambia’s mouth and Atlantic Ocean, Bakau in Gambia of Africa is small [...]
Hurghada- Playground of Red Sea
Always sunny, great people, beautiful surrounding Hurghada is a coastal town in Egypt a place that carved it’s nice in best of hotels, resorts and is one of the best Diving spots in world which attracts the divers like a magnet to iron. Though the place is quite costly and very commercial for some people’s taste it is a very beautiful place. Hurghada stretches to some 30 miles along the shore, but it doesn’t go deep in desert which makes it one of the best places for tourism in Red Sea, Egypt and Africa. The beach with swaying palm trees and such tranquility and peace you will be completely at ease and comfort here.
Hurghada is part of the western margin on the northern Red Sea, of Egypt, Hurghada is 530km (330 miles) to the south of Cairo and 290km (180 miles) in east of Luxor. It visited [...]
Bliss, Ecstasy And Delight Of Mauritius
Mauritius was made by God, may be when he himself must have felt that he wants to go on cool, happening and exciting holiday, away from human problems and their knick and knacks. Don’t know if God really made a vacation to this place (we don’t let him free at all!) but this island is just the thing and ideal place for, wait, will list it down:
Sunbathers
Their every whims will be take care of
Beachcombers
Iisland with lovely and superb beach. no comparison
Sightseers
Hey you will love here, with so many places to go.
Mountaineers
Mountains here are mystical and volcanic in origin, it will cool feat to climb it.
Swimmers
Enjoy in your hotel pools or in these beaches man you are going to love it!
Yachtsmen
Take your Yacht wide into the ocean, or harbor at Port Luis and enjoy its nightlife. [...]