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Today (March 18, 2019): Top 10 most spectacular coastlines in the world.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Wild and rugged coastlines rank among the most alluring and jaw-droppingly beautiful features of our planet. The combination of crashing waves, dramatic landscapes and far-reaching views often creates legendary scenery of epic beauty that has mesmerized people for centuries. If you need some inspiration for a scenic bay to explore or a coastal drive to set out on your next holiday, here’s my selection of the world’s ten most astonishingly beautiful coastlines, scattered across five continents and three oceans.<\/p>\n

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10. CAUSEWAY COASTAL ROUTE, NORTHERN IRELAND<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n

Running for 212 km (130 mile) along the rugged Atlantic coast from Belfast to Londonderry (Derry), the Causeway Coastal Route is studded with sandy beaches, Game of Thrones<\/em> filming locations, rope bridges, fishing villages, and dramatic landscapes. Scenic highlights include the spectacular Gobbins cliff walk which has clung to the enormous basalt cliffs of the Islandmagee peninsula for over one hundred years. Another standout is the UNESCO world heritage site of Giant\u2019s Causeway, a geological feature which consists of around 40,000 hexagonal basalt columns that appear to form a staircase-like pathway out to sea. The legend goes that the causeway was built by an Irish giant, so he could do battle with a Scottish giant.<\/p>\n

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9. GREAT OCEAN ROAD, AUSTRALIA<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n

The Great Ocean Road begins a 90 minute drive from Melbourne’s city centre. It spans 400 kilometres (249 miles) from the town of Torquay to Nelson on the South Australian border. From rainforests and rivers to old volcanoes and rugged coastlines, the Great Ocean Road showcases nature at its most diverse, covering an incredible range of scenery. This stretch of coast is most famous for a spectacular sea stack called ‘the 12 Apostles’. These are limestone pillars that were once connected to the mainland cliffs, but waves and wind carved them into caves, then arches, and eventually battered them down into 45 metre (150 foot) tall columns. There are, in fact, only eight Apostles at the moment, but who knows when the next stretches of cliff will become pillars.<\/p>\n

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8. HA LONG BAY, VIETNAM<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n

Ha Long Bay is located in the emerald waters of the Gulf of Tonkin in the northeast of Vietnam, approximately a four-hour drive from the capital Hanoi. Including over 1600 jungle-clad islands and islets, most of which are uninhabited and unaffected by humans, Ha Long Bay forms a spectacular seascape of towering limestone pillars and wind- and wave-eroded grottoes, and is an ideal model of a mature Karst landscape developed during a warm and wet tropical climate. The bay\u2019s ethereal scenic beauty is complemented by its great biological interest, hence why it was declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1994. You can catch a glimpse of Ha Long Bay on a day trip from Hanoi, yet if you want to get the most out of your trip, you should allow at least two days and book an overnight cruise.<\/p>\n