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Most Beautiful Beaches |
| Sexiest Beaches of World in August
 Caprera Island, Sardinia, Italy |
| A subdued day haunt just off Sardinia's ultrachic Costa Smeralda, Caprera Island's secluded bays and secret coves call out for skinny-dipping or a beach picnic for two. One of seven islands in the Maddalena archipelago, and now a national park, the beaches are gently bathed by the cobalt Tyrrhenian Sea. The Costa Smeralda is all about supertoned divas in teeny-weeny Missoni bikinis and Italian industrialists in oversized Prada sunglasses—but out here you'll be sharing nature with the abundant seabirds.
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| Salvador, Bahia, Brazil |
Located in the northeast of Brazil, Salvador lies between green tropical hills and broad beaches along the bay of Todos os Santos. Originally a slave port city, the delicious melting pot of African and Brazilian cultures and foods draws a particular brand of sensual-minded traveler. Expect pounding drums as background music and the heady smell of palm cooking oil in the air.Shirtless athletic men practicing the martial art–cum-dance of capoeira on the beach; slinky Bahian women with dark skin and green eyes drinking cold bottled beer in the umbrella-covered beach bars.
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| ANGRA DOS REIS, BRAZIL |
This jet-set archipelago on the Costa Verde, southwest of Rio, has 2,000 beaches dotted across its almost 365 islands—one for every day of the year, locals joke. The vibe? Hamptons with a dash of the Hollywood Hills.Well-to-do weekenders from São Paulo, making the most of their society connections—and their friends' yachts.Best way to cool off: Draft beers, called chopps, served frigidly cold.
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| Cousine Island, Seychelles |
Looking to get off the grid? Take your lovely to the privately owned Cousine Island, home to alabaster beaches and an exclusive little lodge retreat. A nature reserve dedicated to conservation, the island also integrates four villas aimed at putting you out of civilization's reach and back to a more skinny-dipping state of mind. Precious few. The couple two villas away is likely an international gallery owner and his Gucci-loving girl. There are the dewy-eyed honeymooners making out in a hammock made for two. Sir Paul McCartney is one starry convert.
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| CORFU, GREECE |
Corfu isn't just for boozing 'n' bonking package-holiday Brits: There are still plenty of unspoiled, olive grove–rimmed beaches for the more discriminating (and less sunburned) among us. This exotic island has a long literary history, too: After all, it supposedly inspired Shakespeare to shipwreck Prosperos.Tousle-haired Greek shipping heirs and the spoiled-but-sexy girls who bed them
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| HUAHINE, TAHITI, FRENCH POLYNESIA |
This atoll in French Polynesia has a rustic, romantic air that puts Bora Bora to shame. The best part of Huahine? A lagoon that's rimmed with Fantasy Island–worthy beaches—imagine lolling on mounds of powdered sugar and washing off in Evian-clear waters. And there are plenty of places to find a private moment, au naturel. Barefoot honeymooners, washboard-stomached surfers, and the occasional privacy-craving celeb.
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| Kuta Beach, Bali, Indonesia |
Bali is a fine place to drop onto a chaise lounge, pull up a parasol, and sleep in the sun. That's the best way to detox from the all-night singing, dancing, and hooking-up action of Kuta Beach, in southern Bali. The cafés, bars, and nightclubs lining the streets of Kuta and Legian are the hub of hedonism for the young and the restless. Wall-to-wall buff bodies—many of them honed on the beaches of Australia—in this season's hot metallics, beads, and bangles.
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| VENICE, CALIFORNIA |
Los Angeles's most beautiful bodies and wildly charismatic types (read: the kooks) still show up on Venice Beach in a Rollerblading, chaotic parade of skin. And even if the outdoor weight machines at Muscle Beach are bereft of beefy boys these days, there's still plenty of eye candy: The L.A. Lifeguard Division is HQ'd here.The eclectic band of Angeleno hipsters that have been gravitating back to Venice in recent years.
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| Pigeon Point Beach, Antigua |
Antigua famously boasts 365 glorious beaches—one for every day of the year—but if you have to pick just one, make it Pigeon Point, where lily-white sands slope gently out into blue-blood waters and hammocks hang between swaying palms. Close to the historic English Harbour and Nelson's Dockyard National Park, it's home base for the jet set. This crew are often defined by what they own (look-at-me yachts) and what they're wearing (Hermès, Rolex, Dior, Armani). In fact, Giorgio himself is one of the celebs who owns a home here, along with Eric Clapton and Oprah.
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