The 20 Most Beautiful Beaches in the World

9. Lopes Mendes, Brazil, Ilha Grande

Lopes Mendes is two miles of undeveloped, abandoned, dust-white sand that leads for some of the world’s clearest, most crystalline seas. You can find restaurants or no seaside shacks here; instead, you’ll locate for sleeping beneath thick, arms , almond trees, and wild ocean shrub, ideal. It’s a serious trek—a three- hour drive to dos Reis from Rio, then a ferry, then the cab-ship, then a quick stroll via a forest—but worth the energy.