Camping Costa Silvestre

Plenty of coastal options are around this smashing setting: prep for long lazy beach days, sandy hikes, high dunes and long piers. Local resort Aquas Verdes has one of the widest and cleanest beaches of the region, along with sand dunes of up to six metres high, heaps of space, and eucalyptus, pine, acacias and poplar trees. See it all from above by booking a helicopter tour at the Helipuerto La Caldera in Costa Azul. To the south of Aquas Verdes lies La Lucila del Mar, a fishing village with a 100-metre pier and a two-hectare pine wood, and to the north is Costa del Este, a seaside resort with fine sands, more dunes and a nature reserve. The coastal city of Santa Teresita has one of the longest piers on the Atlantic coast at over 200 metres; a meteorology office open to visitors, and a replica of the Santa María de la Inmaculada Concepción, the biggest of the three ships sailed in by Mr C Columbus on his way west from Europe.