So, where exactly is Velaa Private Island? It’s situated on Noonu Atoll and it is one of the less developed and less visited atolls in the Maldives, which means it retains much of its natural ...

Paradise is not exclusively for couples—and with over 1,000 islands to explore, the Maldives is one place that shouldn’t be ...

Housed within an architectural Marvel inspired by a butterfly cocoon -- Beneath the striking ivory-white Tavaru ...

Courtesy of Velaa Private Island For the health-obsessed ... There’s also the Velaa Spa, which is home to the Maldives’ only snow room. It doles out treatments like caviar facials and the ...

Enveloped by jungle within the $200 million, 47-villa island resort, the newly unveiled Velaa Wellbeing Village has a dedicated yoga and pilates pavilion, a center for multi-day ayurveda ...

Somewhere between the Maldives’ northern-splayed Lhaviyani and Noonu atolls, we slipped through some kind of portal; from heaven, into something better. Pulling up to Velaa Private Island aboard ...

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The Maldives may be heaven on earth, but when you’re running a luxury resort like Velaa Private Island, all that fresh sea-salted air can take a devilish toll on the furnishings. Which might explain ...

just off the beach at Velaa Private Island. My installation is one of many aimed at helping to reverse a die-off that is happening not only in the Maldives, but across the globe. The coral ...

As I biked back to my sunset-facing overwater villa, I thought about how discomfort and hard truths aren’t the typical draws of a Maldives getaway—but if the challenging path to wellness means doing ...

The coral guardian program at Velaa is one of many urgent reef-restoration projects taking place at resorts across this nation of 1,192 tiny islands. In the Maldives, coral is everything.