The Blue Lagoon is a part of the maltese island most often photographed because it just looks like a little slice of paradise.
It’s a small bay with shallow, azure-coloured water that’s located on the West coast of Comino between the main island and Cominotto (a rock-sized island).
The Blue Lagoon provides one of the most spectacular sights of the Maltese archipelago, attracting hundreds of tourists every day during the busy summer months. It’s without a doubt the biggest attraction that brings people to Comino during this time of year.
It’s a great place to spend a day to relax, swim and snorkel and you will never get tired of the view
If you can, it would be worthwhile swimming across the lagoon to the smaller, less crowded beach of Cominotto right across the lagoon. Other beaches on the island include Santa Maria bay and San Nicklay bay
The Blue Lagoon Malta offers a great snorkeling experience in the shallow water where most of it is only a few meters deep. However there are deeper areas towards the centre of the lagoon so swimmers are advised to take all precautionary care.
For those visitors who prefer to keep their feet on terra ferma, one can explore this small island and enjoy stunning views of the Blue Lagoon and the whole island from the top.
It is recommended that you also walk to Santa Maria bay, the other sandy beach located 20 minutes away from the Blue Lagoon. There you find the Comino Hotel where you can either have a meal or a drink at the hotel or enjoy the water sports offered by the hotel.
Comino is also worth a visit in winter, and is ideal for walkers and photographers. With no urban areas or cars on the island, one can easily smell the scent of wild thyme and other herbs. Comino was inhabited in the Roman period, but did not have much significance until the Knights arrived. It then had a dual role: hunting grounds and a staging post in the defence of the Maltese Islands against the Ottoman Turks.
The island had proved a useful base for pirates operating in the central Mediterranean and during world war II English troops built a castle and a hospital for civilians and soldiers in order to establish a good advantage point in the middle of the sea between the shores of Africa and the last piece of land of Europe
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