The leading travel guide Lonely Planet praises the famous Navagio Beach in Zakynthos, Greece including it in the list with the beaches that will blow your mind.

The travel guide is thrilled with Navagio Beach describing it as follows:

“OMG.
Completely. It’s 87 kinds of beautiful coming at you all at once. Secluded, protected by vertical cliffs that tower above, sparkling azure as imagined by Greek gods, pure, perfect sand and, just to give it an extra bit of character, like a beauty spot on a face, a shipwreck!”.

The article also explains how the “that wreck get…wrecked” saying that “It was a smuggler’s ship caught doing its dirty work in 1982. During bad weather a while after the seizure, the boat was washed up on the shore where it was left to rust.”

Lonely Planet’s list of 5 beaches that will blow your mind are:

1. Navagio Beach, Zakynthos

2. Bowling Ball Beach – Mendocino, California, USA

3. Tallow Beach – Byron Bay, Australia

4. Copacabana– Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

5. Porthcurno – Cornwall, UK