Calling all beach bums: the Maldives is a region famous for its palm-fringed desert islands, most of them surrounded by gin-clear water teeming with tropical fish.
These islands’ sheer beauty means you’d be forgiven for never quite summoning the effort to pry yourself away from your beach towel. After all, lying out for hours will be your reward for the long journey to your private-island-resort paradise, which will almost certainly involve a connecting propeller flight from the international airport at Male, the Maldives’ capital.
It will all be well worth it when you arrive at any of these destinations, the best beaches in the Maldives.
This Shaviyani Atoll resort has several breathtakingly beautiful stretches of sand. The best of these is the beach that borders the island’s huge lagoon (it’s an ideal place for sunset selfies). From here, you’ll enjoy spectacular views of the Fairmont Maldives Sirru Fen Fushi’s Coralarium, a semi-submerged structure, art installation and coral-propagation project designed by artist Jason deCaires Taylor, famous for his underwater sculptures. The Colarium doubles as an artificial coral reef – and if you can muster the energy to leave the resort’s soft white sand for a moment or two, you can swim inside it and admire the tropical fish, crustaceans and coral that call it home.
Planning tip: When you sign up for a guided snorkeling tour of the Coralarium with one of the in-house marine biologists, you’ll learn fascinating facts about the coral-propagation project. Plus, you’ll stand a better chance of spotting the local marine life.
Beach lovers will swoon for The Point, a restaurant and beach at the northernmost tip of the island on which the Six Senses Kanuhura is located. Here, you’ll find one of the Maldives’ largest beaches: an uninterrupted stretch of powdery white sand that extends along its entire western side. Thanks to the proximity of the house reef and the gorgeous backdrop of towering palms, few things beat spending a few hours on this particular beach. We’re also huge fans of the soundtrack here: the high-pitched, song-like call of the Asian koel, a charming songbird found throughout the Maldives.
Baros Island resort is famous for its coralline beaches, which consist of ridiculously soft sand made from fossilized and sun-bleached red coralline algae. Such stretches are rare indeed (they account for only about 5% of the world’s beaches) – and the ones on Baros have several other factors working in their favor, too. To start, the house reef is just a short snorkel away, which means schools of tropical fish can often be spotted even from the sand. What’s more, the island’s small size means finding space to lay out your towel will never be a problem. To ramp up the
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