• Introduction
• 1. Ao Phra Nang Beach
• 2. Baía de Sancho
• 3. Bowman's Beach
• 4. Costa de la Luz
• 5. Enderts Beach
• 6. Kaihalulu
• 7. Palmetto Point Beach
• 8. Santa Teresa
• 9. Shipwreck Beach
• 10. Whitehaven Beach

Costa de la Luz

An Andalusian affair with sand and sea awaits at Spain's southernmost point, where from the small coastal cities of Huelva to Cadiz and on to Tarifa, over 50 miles of dune-backed beaches beckon with fine white sands trimmed by pinewood trees, animated fishing villages, and wide Atlantic-facing waters. Abundant year round sunshine ensures that this Costa de la Luz, or “Coast of Light”, is well-deserving of its moniker. Yet its shores manage to remain blissfully crowd-free and devoid of unsightly high-rise development, an European rarity largely attributed to its lack of proximity to any major Spanish city (it’s about a 3-hour drive to Seville), as well as to the forceful Levante (East) and Poniente (West) coastal winds that detract the masses, aside from the avid windsurfers who consider the area to be a sporting mecca. But come July and August, once the breezes quell and ocean ripples flatten, the sands heat up with the perfect combination of summer sunshine, sizzling Spanish bods, and coveted (relative) seclusion.

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