Paris Plage

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Paris in the summer can get pretty hot. Fortunately for Parisians and visitors to the city in a need of a quick cool-off, some inventive soul has come up with an ideal solution. The Paris Plage is a stretch of sand along the banks of the Seine where you can laze on a sun-lounger, sink your feet into the sand, and enjoy all the pleasures of a day at the beach without leaving the heart of the city. For one month every summer, the Georges Pompidou Expressway along Paris’s Right Bank transforms into a refuge for those Parisians unable, or unkeen to, swap the capital for the coast. The Paris Plage is peppered with beach chairs, cafes, cooling fountains, and shady palm trees – and there are even pools for people to take a dip (because for all their efforts to make this beach-like, the Seine isn’t for swimming). Since it began in 2002, the Paris Plage has become an urban oasis in the truest sense, bringing a small slice of the seaside to the city of lights each summer.

 - Boracay Island Beach
 - Costa Smeralda
 - Playa Flamenco
 - Lizard Island
 - Whitehaven Beach
 - Bantry Bay, Western Cape
 - Ipanema Beach
 - Copacabana Beach
 - Tulum Beach
 - Halong Bay
 - St. Tropez
 - Bangaram Island
 - Elbow Beach
 - Koh Samui
 - Acapulco Bay
 - Zlatni Rat
 - Isla Tortuga
 - Brighton Beach
 - Anse Source D'Argent
 - Cadaques
 - Caneel Bay
 - Cap Skiring
 - Eilat Beach
 - Great Mercury Island
 - Guludo Beach
 - Jericoacoara
 - Mounu Island
 - Musha Cay
 - Ocracoke Island
 - Olu Deniz
 - Oxwich Bay
 - Paris Plage
 - Pink Sands
 - Sunset Beach
 - Super Paradise Beach, Mykonos
 - The Curonian Spit
 - Zanzibar

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