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Where we go

Each is a coast our guides live on or have walked for years. Point at a photograph for its name, or open the tours that go there.

Granite boulders rising from the shallows of Anse Source d’Argent on La Digue, a clear kayak resting on the water in front of them

Indian Ocean

La Digue

Seychelles

Ko Tapu, the narrow limestone pillar in Phang Nga Bay, standing in green water between two forested cliffs

Andaman Sea

Phang Nga Bay

Thailand

Manarola’s pink, yellow and ochre houses stacked on a rocky headland above a small blue harbour

Mediterranean

Manarola

Cinque Terre, Italy

A white sandbank curving out of turquoise shallows in the Maldives, a few people standing on its far end

Indian Ocean

The Maldives

Local islands and sandbanks

White cliffs above Porto Katsiki beach on Lefkada, the sea bright turquoise below and pine scrub in the foreground

Ionian Sea

Porto Katsiki

Lefkada, Greece

The Sete Cidades caldera on São Miguel: a small green crater lake in front, the larger lake and the village beyond, the Atlantic on the horizon

Atlantic

Sete Cidades

São Miguel, Azores

What travellers say

Amina knew which beach would be empty at eight in the morning, and she was right every single day.

— Helen Marsh, Seychelles Island Hopper

We walked every village of the Cinque Terre and never once queued for a train. Small group, big days.

— Tom and Priya Ashworth, Cinque Terre Coast Path

Lunch on Ko Yao Noi was cooked by our boatman’s aunt. You cannot book that anywhere, and we did not have to.

— Marcus Lindqvist, Andaman Coast by Longtail

Nine days, three islands, and a suitcase that always seemed to reach the guesthouse before we did.

— Sarah O’Neill, Ionian Islands by Boat