Long, wide and blessed with great surf, the beach is reached via the zig-zag Ho Chi Minh Trail from the cliff-top Torrey Pines Gliderport near the University of California, San Diego. Set between the deep blue Mediterranean and multi-colored salt pans near Ibiza’s southernmost point, official nudist beach Es Cavallet is separated into various different sections, including a beach club party section, a gay scene and a more secluded, middle section where the clothing-free crowd hang out.

Pioneered by Euro hippies during the 1960s, the beach offers chair and umbrella rentals and is home to a funky little bar called Yiannis that’s renowned for its mojitos.A two-hour drive north of Salvador, the nude beach is about a one-kilometer walk from the parking lot along the shoreline flanked by coconut palms, rolling dunes and very surfable waves.

So once the buzz started to hit us one of my friends tried to start a game of spin the bottle, but being a group of three couples and one single guy we decided to play truth or dare instead. And their popularity continues today, with more and more popping up each year. Here are 20 of the best nude beaches around the world: Playa Naturista Chihuahua, Uruguay

Metsoke Dragot, Israel

Jessica Sebor, the editor of Women’s Running Magazine, first stripped down in 2012 for that year’s edition of the Bare Dare. “I know it’s going to take more than one Sunday morning to cure my self consciousness, but running the Bare Dare did teach me this: If you don’t challenge yourself, you will never have the chance to be crowned a champion,” Sebor wrote in her column. That year, she won the inaugural National Championship of Nude Running. i rarely wear a bra but i used to go clubbing in dresses that sort of hinted that i was bare underneath. not completely sheer but if you looked closely and the light was good you could tell.