# Where to find the best coastline

> Where to find the best coastline: Ao Nang, Tarifa, Dubrovnik, Essaouira, Nha Trang, Split. Travel guide and coastal fine art photography prints.

- Source: https://clevertourists.com/guides/collection-best-coastline
- Authors: Evan & Clara, Clever Tourists (first-hand, from a 526-day trip across 20 countries)
- Published: 2025-12-22

We built entire legs of this trip around a single stretch of coastline. These are the ones that earned it.

## Places

### Ao Nang, Thailand

A southern beach hub and launch point for Krabi's dramatic limestone coast.

### Tarifa, Spain

Spain's windswept southern tip, where two seas meet and Africa is visible across the strait.

### Dubrovnik, Croatia

Dubrovnik is a walled city on the southern Dalmatian coast, its limestone Old Town wrapped by ramparts that run almost two kilometers around the medieval core. The marble main street, the Stradun, polished smooth by centuries of foot traffic, anchors a grid of stepped lanes climbing toward the city walls and the sea beyond.

### Essaouira, Morocco

Essaouira is a fortified port on Morocco's Atlantic coast, known for its whitewashed and blue-shuttered medina, its working fishing harbor, and the steady trade winds that have made it a center for windsurfing. The sea light here is softer and cooler than the interior cities.

### Nha Trang, Vietnam

A coastal resort city with a long beach, offshore islands and ancient Cham towers.

### Split, Croatia

Split is built directly inside and around the Diocletian's Palace, a Roman imperial retirement complex from the early 4th century. Rather than a ruin set apart, the palace is a living quarter where apartments, cafes and shops occupy the ancient walls, cellars and colonnaded courtyards.