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The world’s 33 best swims Whether you prefer muscle-pumping laps across a rugged lake, or stargazing lazily on a city rooftop, we’ve got your swim sorted – to infinity pool and beyond! Bronte Baths, Sydney 24 worldtravellermagazine.com
BEST SWIMS Adaaran Select Meedhupparu POSTER-PERFECT PLUNGE Raa Atoll, the Maldives If you’re lucky, you’re the first person here. You pad a virgin trail of footprints from bungalow to sea, and stretch out on the cool sand. Picking up snorkel gear, you chat with the hut attendant about recent star sightings (‘There’s a lionfish about — you might have to dive down to see it’), before your flippers propel you past the shallows, to that crescent of pulsating coral you’ve become addicted to. Here, 20 strokes from the beach and an arm’s length from your mask, sea that looked a blanket turquoise from your seaplane reveals swirls of Day-Glo parrotfish, sail-shaped Moorish idols and blue tangs. Then, there’s that surly lionfish. You watch its striped mohican slink down to where the reef drops off to an intimidating indigo. Head full of ocean colour scenes, you paddle back to laze by the pool for an hour at least. That reef’s not going anywhere. BUCKET-LIST DIP The Dead Sea, Jordan Cleopatra bathed here, King David hid here from Saul, Jesus was baptised upriver — even Herod slipped on his Speedos for a dip. You’re floating in a sea of history, and the amazing thing is, despite the corporate hotel chains thronging the shores, it still feels transcendent. That salt stings, though, which is why it’s best to access the water via a hotel’s (with its freshwater pools and showers for after). Try to keep the salt out of any cuts or grazes, and don’t shave any part of your body the day you plunge! SECRET SPLASH Pigeon Island, St Lucia You didn’t come here to swim, but you’ll miss out if you don’t. Pigeon Island is a former British military fort, now a national park, at St Lucia’s northern tip. Stretch your legs on the spiralling hike to its hilltop, snapping the obligatory photo with the cannons there. You’ll be trekking back down just as the sticky heat of late morning sets in — so first slip down to the curves of sand on its south side for a secret swim. There’s a public loo to change in, and shade from the trees. Kick off your shoes and plunge into the Listerine-fresh ocean. HOTEL POOL HEAVEN Grand Hotel Tremezzo, Lake Como Outside, you have the glittering expanse of Lake Como and a ‘secret’ garden pool — all visible from your room. Inside, there’s a velvet-red staircase to sweep down as you head for dinner in your best holiday togs. But, floating in the lake, as smugly as George Clooney on his hols is this special swim spot. It’ll get in the way of your Como sightseeing — lizard-still on the hotel’s loungers, drink in hand and the gelato-cool pool right by you, you’ll watch the tourist ferry pass by with no urge to move. worldtravellermagazine.com 25
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