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Bicycles and a scooter on the sand outside a white two-storey guesthouse

Belena Maldives

Thoddoo · North Ari

Thoddoo is round, green and unusually quiet for an island this well connected. Fruit farms cover the interior; the beach sits along the western edge, ten minutes’ walk from almost anywhere.

Belena keeps eleven rooms around a pool in the middle of the island. Bicycles at the door, and the shore near enough that you never think about how to get there.