Visiting beaches sounds fun when you talk about going on a vacation with your friends or even your family after having some hectic days in your busy life. When you think about any beach, instantly an image of sea green water with a bright sky above, a lot of people with their swimming costumes on, and a bed of sand hits your mind, right? You probably don’t know that there are many beaches with some strange landscapes exist in different parts of the world. Take a look at the list of 14 strange beaches of the world.

14. Purple Sand (Pfeiffer) Beach in California


1.Pfeiffer beach is located in the center of Big Sur which is a less populated coastline in California. This beach has a natural rock formation and a cold wet bed of purple sand. You will find purple coloured gemstones and pebbles while walking around the beach. This is a place worth visiting which will give you a chilled windy atmosphere.

2. The Giant Causeway, situated in the Northern Ireland was formed by the eruption of an ancient volcano. It is known as a World’s Heritage Site which was declared by UNESCO in 1986. The hexagonal slags formed out of volcano create stepping stones from the cliff leading towards the sea. Giant Causeway is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Ireland

3. Cave Beach (Benagil), Algarve, Portugal

The natural beauty of Benagil beach will leave you breathless. This beach is situated along the coastline of Algarve in Portugal. As you go there, you will find a dome-shaped cave curved in an astonishing manner from the cliffs. The sunlight peeps through the natural formed hole of the cave which acts as a spotlight beaming on the bed of the clean golden coloured sand. You can watch the fishermen at work there and can easily take a boat trip from Benagil to explore the whole area

4. Red Sand Beach at Rabida in Galapagos

The reddish sand beach gives Rabida a distinctive look. It is an uninhabited island where you can enjoy the fascinating nature of wildlife. The beach has a dark reddish sand which comes from the iron of the eroded hills and also from the oxidization of lava. You can get the opportunity to do swimming and snorkeling with an ample number of sea lions there. Besides, you can spot many flamingoes and other rare birds in the Red Sand Beach making it a noisy tourist spot. If you are a lover of nature and wildlife, you definitely should visit this beach at Rabida.

5. Koekohe Beach, New Zealand


Koekohe is an odd looking beach which is located in New Zealand. Visiting there, you spot Moeraki boulders lying on the bed of the not so clean sand. These boulders are unusually large and spherical in size. These are actually some concretions accumulated from the mudstones along the shoreline. Moeraki boulders are grey in colour with a cracked surface for which the locals have named it as dragon eggs. This strange looking beach has become a famous spot attracting all the tourists.

6. Hot Water Beach in New Zealand


Hot Water beach on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula is located in New Zealand. This beach is famous for the hot springs which filter up through the sand. People visit this beach and enjoy digging into the sand allowing the hot bubbles to escape and spring out from the surface which can form a swimming pool of hot water. You can surely visit the beach to enjoy the 45-degree temperature with an amazing view.

7. Cow Beach, Goa


Cows are considered as sacred animals in India. If you visit this beach in Goa, you can find cows roaming around freely without any heed till the sunset. This beach is weird in the sense that you can see as many cows as tourists loitering around or just sitting under the sunlight in the beach and species seem to enjoy equally.

8. Pink Beach (Tangsi), Komodo National Part in Indonesia


Have you ever visited a beach which is pink in colour? Tangsi Beach, located in Indonesia has a bed of pink sand which makes it distinguish from any other beaches. Although the location is too remote, but the beauty of the beach will make you feel worth visiting it. It was said that the pink colour of beach was derived from the parts of Homtrema rub rum, a type of coral reef. You can do many kinds of activities there including snorkeling, diving, fishing or surfing and can learn about underwater life.

9. Black Sand Beach (Jökulsárlón), Iceland


In southern Iceland, a large glacial lake is situated on the edge of Vatnajökull National Park. This glacial river lagoon was formed when the glacial started subsiding from the Atlantic Ocean. It has an amazing view of ice cap with a turquoise coloured vast dome of ice. In summer, the icebergs start to melt, they get break free from the lagoon and roll down along the sea water. However, in winter, the whole lake freezes. These icebergs are usually seen in two colours- bright blue and milky white. Numerous Hollywood film shootings were held in this famous lake over the years.

10. Hidden Beach at Marietas Islands in Mexico


This hidden beach at Marietas Island is a kind of natural wonder which was untouched by humans for many years. This hidden beach was discovered when the Mexican government bombed the whole area while they were giving military training in the early 1990s. Although no one can yet set foot legally on that island, hundreds of tourists are going to visit such a strange beach every day. This attractive place is like an ecological gem for the Mexicans which is always under protection by their government.

11. Vaadhoo Beach, located in Maldives


This amazing looking beach is renowned for the sea of stars. It is situated in the deep hearts of Maldives. The most attractive part of this beach is that at night, you can see uncountable number of bioluminescent organisms glowing which makes the whole dark environment a bright one. When the tiny creatures come together and start glowing, they form a star like constellation which is the main attraction for the tourists to visit Vaadhoo Beach in Maldives

12. Glass Beach in California


Glass Beach is also known as Praia De Vitro and is located in California. Although this beach looks like one filled with naturally formed stones or gems, these glasses lying on the surface are actually created from the garbage dumped from many years in the coastline. The dumped glasses get polished and form into different shapes and sizes as they get hit every time by the waves of the sea. It is needless to say that garbage can sometimes turn into beauty having the power to attract thousands of tourists from different parts of the world

13. Maho Beach of St. Martins


Maho Beach in St. Martins is one of the strangest beaches in the world. In this beach, you will be provided with some unique experience. As you are going to sunbathe or swim in this strange beach, you can find the plane taking off just a few feet above your head. This is one unique feeling you are going to experience which you can’t find in any of those other traditional beaches.

14. Green Sand Beach in Hawaii


Green Sand Beach, also known as Papakolea is situated in Hawaii. The beach has green coloured sand and it gets the colour from the mineral olivine found in the cinder cone. Sometimes this olivine can produce green gemstones which make the beach even more unique. If you want to spend some time peacefully with adequate privacy, you should visit this Green Sand Beach of Hawaii.

So, how strange did you find these top 14 beaches of the world? What makes these beaches unique is that they are strange and unusual in appearance from all other usual and traditional sea beaches but of course, they are quite beautiful as well. Their unique nature made them very famous among the millions of tourists from different parts of the world.

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Beauty of nature ... God's works are so incomprehensible. ..

Nice job OP.

I almost wrote "Explorers" until checked the original post

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Nice.

Those cows be like. "If only this were bar beach".

or, "bar beach things on my mind".

Breathtakingly beautiful. None in Africa....

and some fools will say there is no God,imagine having pink,purple, green,black beaches....O Lord,you are worthy to be praised!!!

Thank You lord for creating these beautiful places for my earthly comfort

God is so wonderful