Pink Sand Beaches

Rare and beautiful beaches tinted pink by crushed coral and shells

What are Pink Sand Beaches?

Pink sand beaches are among the rarest in the world. The pink hue comes from tiny fragments of red coral mixed with white sand. Found in Bermuda, the Bahamas, Sardinia, and a few other locations worldwide.

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Pink-tinted sand and shallow turquoise lagoon at Elafonissi Beach in Crete, GreeceEasy Access
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Greece

Elafonissi Beach

A rare pink-sand lagoon at the southwest tip of Crete, where shallow turquoise waters and crushed-shell shores create one of the Mediterranean's most unforgettable beaches.

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Aerial view of the Pink Sand Beach on Harbour Island in the Bahamas, showing a long curve of pale pink sand, turquoise Atlantic water, low-lying tropical vegetation and houses behind the beach, under a dramatic cloud-heavy skyEasy Access
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Bahamas

Pink Sand Beach

Harbour Island's three-mile east-coast beach, where a microscopic organism called Homotrema rubrum actually does make the sand pale pink. What it costs, how you get there, and why midday does not show what Instagram promised.

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