Lagoon Overwater
Steps into two metres of water, and a glass panel in the floor you will stare at for hours.
Overwater and beach villas on a private atoll, a house reef you can swim to from your steps, and a kitchen garden that supplies most of the menu.
Fourteen villas is the maximum the reef can carry without stress — a number set by the marine biologist who surveyed the atoll, not by an accountant.
The island generates 92% of its own power from the solar field behind the garden, desalinates its own water, and composts everything the kitchen cannot use. None of it is a headline; it is just how the place is run.
Measured on the island and published every year, whether or not the numbers flatter us.
Every villa has an outdoor shower, a hammock and a ladder or a path straight into the lagoon.
Steps into two metres of water, and a glass panel in the floor you will stare at for hours.
Set back in the palms with a walled garden, a plunge pool and forty metres of sand.
Two bedrooms at the quiet end of the beach, with a kitchen and a shaded deck for four.
The house reef starts forty metres out. Guided drift snorkels run twice daily with Malik.
Plant a fragment on the frame and we will send you a photograph of it every year.
One long table in the kitchen garden, once a week, cooked from whatever came out that morning.
Kayaks and paddleboards, no engine, no charge. The lagoon is glass before seven.
Torches, a guide, and a reef that becomes a completely different animal after dark.
Genuinely a listed option. The hammock is included and nobody will schedule you.
“Fourteen villas means you recognise everyone by day two and still never feel crowded. That balance is very hard to get right.”
“Our daughter planted a coral fragment. Eleven months later a photo of it landed in my inbox. She has not stopped talking about it.”
“No jet skis. You do not realise how much noise they make until you spend a week somewhere that banned them.”
December to April is usually full by September. May and November are quieter, warmer and considerably cheaper.