Cayo de Agua

A narrow sandbar connects two halves of this island in the Los Roques archipelago, running straight into open water until it seems to dissolve into the horizon. The turquoise shallows around it are so clear and calm you'll spend hours standing in knee-deep water doing nothing in particular, which is the whole point. Protected inside a national park, the beach stays uncrowded in a way that feels increasingly rare. The World's 50 Best Beaches ranked it eleventh in 2026.