Resorts In Maldives - Malta's Beaches Attract Thousands of Tourists Each Year

Sandy or rocky beach; locals and tourists alike are faced with only one dilemma - where shall we go today, c on the tiny Mediterranean Island of Malta, as temperatures hit 40°?

Malta's beaches are still the main attraction for sea lovers, although hotels pools are full up with tourists bathing and licking the sun.

No matter how hard you wash and scrub there is an inevitability that the microscopic specks will keep coming out of your body for days on end. There is a latent negative touch to going to a sandy beach and enjoying oneself, according to some.

What better way is there to keep the kids occupied than hours of endless sandcastle creating, let's face it, people enjoy the cushioning effect the sandy beach gives them while they sunbathe and, still. Ouch. To clean the inside of your car afterwards, if you can, and try.

There are also two sandy beaches on Comino - Santa Marija Bay and San Niklaw Bay. Marsalforn and the splendid Ramla l-Hamra beckon on Gozo, while Xlendi Bay, pretty Bay and Armier Bay provide the main sandy beaches on Malta, paradise Bay, golden Sands, ghajn Tuffieha Bay, ghadira Bay. The forest of umbrellas and the fast-food outlets, but there are also some big ones where the holidaying crowds gather in their multitudes to spend their days among the ice-cream vendors, malta's sandy beaches are often small and hidden away in sheltered little bays difficult to reach.

The demand for sandy beaches is ever so vociferous that the Maltese authorities have also wisely - and quite successfully at St George's Bay and Bugibba - embarked on perched-beach projects intended for the enlargement of some of the smaller sandy beaches and the conversion into sandy patches of rocky shores in a concentrated effort to fulfill demand.

Malta has just about enough beaches to make your holiday perfect, but for those who love them. Picking sand out of your orifices for weeks on end might not be everyone's cup of tea, as I said.

Your best bet is to check out a map and see which one is closest to you! Are more centrally located, like St George's Bay, others. Getting to the ones in the north of Malta is best done by car if you are renting or by bus if not. Most of which are located in the north of Malta and a couple in Gozo, although sand is not Malta's biggest natural resource there are still plenty of beaches to choose from.

Toweling off and relaxing without the worry of sand getting in your ears, these places which are literally littered around the island are ideal locations for taking your daily dip. Malta has an abundant supply of rocky beaches, but for those of you who are not overly enthused by the idea of sand in every crevice.

St Paul's Bay and Sliema sea front, st Thomas Bay, salina Bay, mistra Bay, marsaxlokk Bay, marsascala Bay, ghar Lapsi, some of the top rocky beaches in Malta are Anchor Bay. The sandy beach vs rocky beach dilemma which spoils visitors to Malta for choice, of course it is a question of preference.

While some of the top diving clubs operate from the rocky shores at very reasonable rates, you can hire boats and go water skiing, if you can't build sand castles. Dining and relaxing, most rocky beaches have very good facilities for showering. Perhaps the clearest water off a rocky beach anywhere in the Mediterranean, in its Blue Lagoon, boasts, little island caught mid-sea between Malta and Gozo, barren, that strange, while Comino, there are also great rocky beaches at Marsalforn Bay and Xlendi Bay in Gozo.

If you can even remember it. . . . It will be difficult switching back to that other tempo you left behind. One that openly dictates the tempo of life in the Mediterranean - allegro andante, it is a completely different scene from daytime. The late-evening barbecue parties come next with their heavy cases of cool beer and enough food to feed a regiment. It is a joy to go back there and watch anglers hooking some interesting-looking fish from the very spot you were swimming in a few hours earlier, in the evening.

And of the sharp bits. Just be careful of any warning signs that may be in place. The vast majority of Malta's shoreline is open to the public and you will normally find people swimming from just about every available rocky outcrop during the summer months. So finding a rocky beach is generally as simple as stepping outside your front door. Rocks are something we have a plenty, while sand may not be Malta's strong point.