The Blue Lagoon
Comino’s turquoise channel
A sheltered channel of impossibly clear, shallow water between Comino and the islet of Cominotto — the Blue Lagoon is Malta’s most photographed swim, and for one good reason: nowhere else is the sea quite this blue.
Comino is barely a smudge on the map — three and a half square kilometres of garrigue and low cliffs, home to a single hotel and a handful of permanent residents. Yet between it and the neighbouring rock of Cominotto lies the Blue Lagoon, a shallow basin where white sand throws the sunlight back up through the water until the whole channel glows turquoise.
A handful of places that define Blue Lagoon — each one worth building a day around.
Come early and you’ll have the clearest hours to yourself; by midday the boats arrive and the lagoon turns festive. Swim out to the sea caves, walk the coastal path to the old watchtower, or simply float — this is the Mediterranean at its most postcard-perfect, and a world away from the cities a few miles south.
