South Beach Florida
Florida’s south beach was not so popular in the 70s and 80s, but now it has become one of the most popular beaches in the country, and is ritzy and expensive, attracting the kind of people that would normally be found on the luxurious beaches of Club Med or Monte Carlo. The fabulously wealthy live here in high priced condos and beach houses, while throngs of ordinary tourists swarm to not only enjoy the water and the beach, but to scope out the beautiful people who can afford to live here all year round or own hideaways that they might use for annual holidays. People speaking all sorts of different languages frequent the trendy bars, restaurants, and hotspot nightclubs of South Beach. There is even a diet named for this place, and the assumption of most readers is that if you can go on a diet and end up looking like some of the supermodels who hang out on South Beach - which allows topless bathing, another magnet for sightseers - then the diet must be an incredible one. If you visit Miami and want to get a taste of the exotic, take a ride down to South Beach and stroll around. It is not like being in the USA, but is more like being in some cosmopolitan world city where the super rich and famous people of the world - the Paris Hiltons of the jet set scene - come to play and frolic while spending obscene amounts of money. But it can be a fun place for even the ordinary tourist on a small budget, just because it affords such glamorous people watching possibilities, great restaurants and bars, and of course a beautiful beach for swimming and sunning.