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Best Nude Beaches In The WORLD (PHOTOS, POLL)

First Posted: 12/16/11 11:15 AM ET Updated: 12/16/11 11:15 AM ET

Who needs a bathing suit when you've got a birthday suit?

All ages, all sizes, come bare your beautiful beach bod in these top tan-line free zones.

All you need to bring to get in is absolutely nothing at all.

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  • Saline Beach - St. Barth

    Tucked away underneath St. Barth's rocky hillside, feel free to forget everything at St. Barth's most secluded beach. Including your clothes. One sbhonline.com member recalled his favorite all-time memory of St. Barth as "enjoying a Cuban cigar and a glass of french rose wine on Saline beach in the late afternoon - wearing nothing but a hat."

  • Es Cavallet Beach, Ibiza, Spain

    In America, we have the right to remain silent. The saucy Spanish, however, have the right to remain nude. According to <a href="http://goeurope.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=goeurope&cdn=travel&tm=905&f=10&su=p531.51.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.naturismo.org/docs/legal_fen_english.pdf" target="_hplink">this PDF</a>, penalization for nudity violates constitutional rights. We're happy about that because this <em>rear view</em> above makes us giggle. Es Cavallet (pictured) is one of Ibiza's gay-friendly nude beaches.

  • South Beach - Miami, Florida

    Enter the beach near Haulover Park for big, bouncy, nude beach volleyball bliss. Who knew volleyball could ever be such a <em>spectator</em> sport.

  • Black's Beach - San Diego, California

    UC San Diego's mascot may be King Triton, but over by Black's Beach, its the bear. Join the Black Beach Bares, a group of local nudie sport enthusiasts, for a friendly round of stripped snorkeling, birthday suit boogie boarding or jiggly jogging.

  • Plage de Tahiti - St. Tropez, France

    No cameras allowed around this jet set crowd. Skip the ragmag subscription and catch a peak of your favorite celebrities' itties and bitties for free at this nude beach for the rich and the famous.

  • Praia do Pinho -Santa Catarina, Brazil

    The "itsy-bitsy-teeny-weenie-yellow-polka-dot-bikini" is <em>nowhere</em> to be found here. In 1987, Pinho became the first nationally sanctioned au natural beach in Brazil. Its motto? "Clothing is not an option." Amen.

  • Paradise Beach - Mykonos, Greece

    Paradise Beach is just that. Marvel at the tannest and fittest bosoms Greece has to offer while partying all day and night at the bars and clubs surrounding the sand line.

  • Little Beach - Maui, Hawaii

    Feast your big eyes on Maui's Little Beach. Little Beach is Maui's official "unofficial clothing optional beach". If you're lucky, you might run into Dr. Leisure, an artist whose been painting scenes of nude beaches for the past ten years. If you're luckier, Dr. Leisure might paint you.

  • Playa El Agua--Margarita Island, Venezuela

    Here's an interesting fact. Margarita Island in Venezuela <a href="http://www.margaritaislandbeaches.info/topless/" target="_hplink">claims</a> that in countries where nude sunbathing is the norm, there is less incidence of sexual assault. Here's to unclothing with a cause. <em>Correction: A previous version of this slide incorrectly showed a photo of Pedro Gonzalez, also on Margarita Island. We apologize for the error.</em>

  • Clifton Beach - South Africa

    Get naked, not nipply. Backed by steep dunes to protect against pervy gawkers, Clifton beach promotes itself as the ideal nudist beach because its four sheltered coves protect sunbathers from chilly winds.

  • Baker Beach, San Francisco

    Baker Beach is part of San Francisco's famed Presidio and was once host to Burning Man. The half-mile long beach, which lies on the peninsula of San Francisco, has stunning views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the city. Be forewarned: nude bathing (or rather "clothing optional") is only allowed on the northern section.

  • Haulover Beach, Florida

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/TV_people"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/TV_people">TV people</a>:<br />This beautiful, family friendly, regionally run park beach north of Sunny Isles is a great example of a US clothing optional beach that is open to the public.

  • Wreck Beach - Vancouver, B.C., Canada

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/stopgeorge"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/stopgeorge">stopgeorge</a>:<br />With or without their bathing suits, hundreds of thousands of people visit Canada's first and largest clothing-optional beach each year. This all-natural beach is 7.8 kilometers long and follows the coastline below a forested, 200-foot high, cliff system on the western tip of Vancouver. Eagles, kingfishers, and escaped domestic birds like parrots, lovebirds, and magpies hover about – as do vendors selling everything a sunbather’s heart desires, from sunscreen for your sensitive bits, to empanadas, organic fruit juices, and buffalo burgers to stave off those west coast munchies! Ah, Wreck Beach…so near to the city, and yet so far!

  • Hawaii - Kehena Black Sand Beach

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Patricia_Beach"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://graph.facebook.com/100000595729802/picture?type=square" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Patricia_Beach">Patricia Beach</a>:<br />Courtesy of Hangin'Loose Hawaii

 
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01:26 PM on 12/21/2011
Secluded it is. Be prepared to walk past cattle and long trails to find a lovely beach, but be careful in the water. There's a lot of wave action. I was taking a photo of a friend in mid-calf deep water, before a wave washed him off the rock cutting his ankle. Past the parking lot and restaurant, I figured anyone in that area would be naked, so I walked the long trail to the beach naked, with no problems encountered. John
07:26 PM on 12/20/2011
Sorry but Clifton is not a nudist beach.. Sandy Bay is the only nudist beach in the Cape Town area.
02:13 AM on 12/20/2011
allll offfff youuuuu sound stupipppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
08:18 PM on 12/19/2011
Missing are Orient Beach on the French side of St, Maarten and 8 Mile Beach near Negril, Jamaica.
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08:50 PM on 12/19/2011
how true, truly just beautiful beaches!!!!!!!!!!!!
08:05 PM on 12/19/2011
I think so many who read and think that going nude are missing the point. I bet many of the true nudist will agree here. We go not to just see other naked bodies. We go to enjoy the freedom of clothing and warmth of the great sun. We also know that when at a nude beach everyone is one the same page. No one is dressed better then the other person. So there no way in telling whom the poor man is or the rich man. or whom the low man on the labor roll or the top CEO of a large company. Everyone one is equal.

I don't go to look at age or check for hot bodies.. I go for the freedom of being free of clothing and enjoy what nature has to offer. I was created with pride not shame. Yes I am 70 years old and I don't have a old wrinkled body, In fact I don't have any wrinkles at all. I am 100% natural.
07:59 PM on 12/19/2011
would lve to be naked on the beach
07:39 PM on 12/19/2011
You missed Moonstone Beach in RI.
07:35 PM on 12/19/2011
This beach is not in Santa Catarina... this a photo from Rio de Janeiro.
07:32 PM on 12/19/2011
North end of Dunedin beach in Florida used to be nude...Eeeeeeeeewwww.. Like a car accident sometimes you look tooo long and see more than you desired.. Bunch of old men hiding in the giggly weeds.."THE BEACH HAS EYES III"
07:14 PM on 12/19/2011
Maui's Little Beach is the BEST!Tish and Ron in Illinois
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06:59 PM on 12/19/2011
Playalinda Beach, next to Merritt Island Reserve, (at the dead end) near Titusville, FL
06:56 PM on 12/19/2011
what happened to Orient beach in St Martin, doesn't that deserve to be included in this group of fun beaches to visit
Cacey
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06:33 PM on 12/19/2011
Hippie Hollow on Lake Travis in Austin Texas. Lots of UT students and their profs, close to Dallas and Houston. But any beach can be a nude beach if it is fairly off the beaten path and Costa Rica has two huge coast lines.
06:08 PM on 12/19/2011
Whoever writes these articles needs to get there info right. Haulover Beach in North Dade county is neither north of Sunny Isles,or is it part of South Beach. Anyone looking for this beach needs to know it is just at the south end of Sunny Isles and is approx 10 miles north of South Beach. The north part of the beach is primarly gay and the south side straight.
And to ESPN announcers none of the South Florida peo teams play in South beach as you so love to announce. Miami-the Heat and Marlins, Miami Gardens-Dolphins, and Sunrise-Panthers have nothing to do with South Beach.
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06:05 PM on 12/19/2011
Yes, and notice No people! The REAL Nudist are? OLDER THAN DIRT PEOPLE!
Ever See a naked 60 -80 yr old Woman? Don't, it will ruin your year !
Ever see a Naked 60-80 yr old Man? Don't It may ruin your Life, For LIFE !