Beaches Archives ⋆ The Passenger

July 8, 2024January 30, 2025

Lost lake

Lost Lake is a serene alpine lake near Whistler Village, offering a peaceful escape with stunning mountain views, crystal-clear waters, and scenic trails surrounded by lush forests. The lake is a popular year-round destination, with hiking and biking trails in the summer and groomed cross-country skiing and snowshoeing routes in the winter. To reach Lost Lake on foot, start from Whistler Village and follow the Valley Trail, a well-maintained, easy path that takes about 20-30 minutes to walk.

July 6, 2024January 31, 2025

Beach hopping

The Pacific Rim National Park is a wonderful place on Vancouver Island with many different beaches you can try out. A road and cyclist path connect them from Ucluelet until Tofino and thereby make them easily accessible. You’ll find paid parking areas in all these places, but there is one pain: you can only pay by app and connectivity via the mobile network is sometimes bad. The best beach in my opinion is Tonquin beach near Tofino.

April 20, 2024January 30, 2025

Muizenberg

Muizenberg Beach, located along the False Bay coast near Cape Town, is one of the most popular and picturesque beaches in South Africa. Known for its long, sandy stretch and gentle waters, Muizenberg is a favorite spot for surfers, families, and beachgoers of all ages. The beach is especially famous for its row of colorful bathing huts, which have become an iconic symbol of the area.

July 5, 2020July 9, 2020

Relaxing on the beach

Normally I travel pretty far for celebrating my birthday and this year I planned to be in Moldova – but because of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic travel restrictions applied and social distancing became a pure necessity. At least I wanted to get away from home and decided to wake up at the sea, the Baltic Sea to be precise. Therefore, I booked a cube at the southern beach of Eckernförde near Kiel, Germany.

October 6, 2018October 16, 2018

Cala Monte Turnu

The Cala Monte Turnu beach is a sandy beach at Castiadas, Italy – in the southeast of Sardegna, named after the mountain next to it. After a very short steep section it is pretty flat and good suitable for children. You’ll find parasols, sunloungers and a beach bar there, but you can also rent a boat or join a boat tour. Continue reading “Cala Monte Turnu”

October 6, 2018October 16, 2018

Capo Carbonara

If you go to the southeastern end of Sardegna you’ll reach the Capo Carbonara located near Villasimius, Italy. It is a nice area obviously mostly used for tourism. There you will find several beautiful beaches that invite you to some hours at the shore. Continue reading “Capo Carbonara”

July 10, 2015July 1, 2018

Sand, waves & saltwater

If you leave Haifa and drive through the Carmel tunnels (with the craziest interchange in the mountains I’ve ever seen; where the roads 23 and the 672 meet) you come to an area close to the sea. At first you’ll see a technology park with all tech giants also known in Europe gathered. But behind this at the shore there is a wonderful beach.

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July 8, 2015April 19, 2022

Beach life at the Sea of Galilee

During some times of the year the weather conditions at the Mediterranean sea aren’t well enough for swimming (unimaginable but true). In these times the people go to the Sea of Galilee, 200 meters below sea level in a different climate zone. The main city is Tiberias built up into the mountains. As there is no beach in the city, where can you cool down in the waters?

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July 5, 2015July 15, 2023

Floating

The Dead Sea is a lake 400 m below sea level – the lowest point of the world. It is kind of a different climate zone and as everybody has heard of – it has very special water conditions. The lake has a very high salinity (28-33 %) and the bottom seems to consist of pure salt. The water is brought in by river Jordan and there is no outflow; the water simply evaporates here.

February 28, 2015November 4, 2018

Copacabana & Ipanema

A lot of songs have been sung about these two beaches in the Zona Sul de Rio de Janeiro, both only divided by the Forte do Copacabana. Remember The Girl from Ipanema? The areas are in the rich south of Rio and are touristic zones secured by the police. If you don’t have your hotel here (might be better, cause the prices in the area are a bad joke) – the metro is running all along Copacabana and for Ipanema you can go to the terminus General Orsório.

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