2 local islands

Vaavu Atoll.

Smallest population of any Maldivian atoll. Alimathaa channel diving for nurse sharks and Fotteyo Kandu — a top advanced dive site.

Fulidhoo

Local islands

The atoll, as it lives.

Sandbar Island
Fulidhoo
A four-hundred-soul village, a long sandbar, and the sound of bodu beru at dusk.
The Dive Frontier
Thinadhoo
A car-free island of barely three hundred, set a channel's edge from Fotteyo — the country's great dive atoll, held quietly.