Regularly voted among the world's best beaches, Flamenco is a horseshoe of blinding sand and gin-clear water on a sleepy island east of Puerto Rico proper. Snorkellers head to the rocky ends of the bay for coral, fish and the occasional turtle, or walk over to Tamarindo beach where the seagrass meadows all but guarantee them. The rusting tanks on the sand are relics of the navy years — now murals.
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