Azure waters, verdant green forests, terracotta structures gleaming in the sun: around the world, there’s no shortage of eye candy waiting to satisfy your visual sweet tooth.
Yet as stunning as the frosty white peaks of a mountaintop or the warm ocher of desert adobe can be, it pays to see the world through rose-colored glasses every once in a while.
For those moments, there’s nothing like the whimsical, charming and cheeky joy a splash of pink brings to a destination. And from the blushing shores of Pink Sands Beach in the Bahamas to the vivid magenta-drenched Pink St in Puerto Plata, there’s no shortage of places ready to envelop you in confectionary pink hues.
With the imminent release of Greta Gerwig’s new Barbie movie, now’s the perfect time to take a page from Travel Barbie’s playbook and embrace all the globe-trotting pink the world has to offer. These five pretty-in-pink destinations fit the bill.
1. Strike a pose against LA’s pink wall
A photography icon long before Instagram became, well, Instagram, Los Angeles’ famous Pink Wall has been the backdrop of choice for amateur and professional photographers alike for nearly 20 years. It’s part of the Paul Smith store on Melrose Ave, and welcomes over 55,000 visitors a year, who line up in front of the boutique for their shot at a selfie.
The wall is repainted every three months at an annual cost of $60,000 to ensure it stays in pristine hot-pink shape. The color, incidentally, has its own trademarked Pantone swatch (“Pink Lady”) – so you’ll have to cover your living room in convincing dupe unless you have the secret code to use at your local paint shop.
Planning tip: Pictures of the Pink Wall can only be taken using your phone’s camera. DSLRs are no longer allowed, a rule that’s enforced by the security detail present around the wall.
2. Fly over Western Australia’s Lake Hillier
Situated on Australia’s Middle Island, the largest of the Recherche Archipelago, Lake Hillier looks more like a massive glass of spilled strawberry Quik than a body of water. Researchers once believed it was high salinity levels that gave the 1970ft(600m)-long lake its bubblegum-pink tint, but they’ve recently discovered that the real cause of its eye-catching color…
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