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Best of Maldives: Airport Terminal – Shangri-La Villingili
Published 25 April 13 6:15 PM | Maldives Complete
    One of the best ways to see the otherworldly images of the Maldives is by taking a seaplane transfer to your resort. In the beginning, such transfers were cumbersome affairs where you sat in a sweaty, open-air hangar. But now, most of the...
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What Else I Now Have Seen
Published 11 August 12 7:8 AM | Maldives Complete
After last year’s tour, I wrote one of the highest profile pieces of the blog to date called ‘ What I Haven’t Seen Yet’ . It got a bit of notoriety when the Maldives Tourism Promotion Board sent a copy of it around to resorts for...
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Best of the Maldives: Boat Deck – Shangri-La Vilingili
Published 16 April 12 7:29 PM | Maldives Complete
    For a bigger sailing sunrise and cruise that is just as enjoyable in silence , Shangri-La Vilingili has one of the best bows I have seen for relaxing in the best seat in the house. Sofa on the foredeck. Brill. Lori and I have done our fair...
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Best of the Maldives: Golf Course – Shangri-La Villingili
Published 28 March 12 2:46 AM | Maldives Complete
      Well, it’s about time. As I’ve discussed before , the absence of a proper scale golf course is one of (if not *the*) major inhibitor to prospective high visitors to the Maldives. Today, Shangri-La Viligili has plugged that gap...
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Best of the Maldives: Southernmost – Shangri-La Vilingili
Published 6 June 11 5:28 PM | Maldives Complete
  This award could also be called the ‘Driest of the Wettest’. That is, the driest place to be (south) during the wettest period of the year (June). June is the wettest month of the year with an average of 12 inches of rain . Not to fret too much...
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Best of the Maldives: Lacustrine – Shangri-La Villingili
Published 18 February 11 6:15 PM | Maldives Complete
  If 49 metres at Anantara Kihavah is not long enough (and you prefer your swimming in fresh water), then consider Shangri-La Villingili . Villingili is situated on the island of Gan which has 3 fresh water lakes including its largest, Hithadoo....
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Best of the Maldives: Indigenous Massage – Shangri-La
Published 8 January 11 11:31 PM | Maldives Complete
  All that working out got you achy and depleted? Well then, sounds like you need a spa appointment. Something different? Something that evokes the very paradise you are savouring each day? How about Shangri-La Villingili’s ‘ Cowrie Shell Experience...
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Best of Maldives: Most Remote – Shangri-La Villingili
Published 13 August 10 10:39 AM | Maldives Complete
(photo reprinted with permission) Today’s superlative comes to us again courtesy of Maldives photographer extraordinaire Sakis Papadopoulos whose Dreaming of Maldives site shares tidbits often as colourful as his snaps. Last week, I caught this...
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Best of the Maldives: Dining Experience – Shangri-La Villingili
Published 22 July 9 11:15 AM | Maldives Complete
One resort that has embraced our dining on the beach top tip is the newly inaugurated Shangri-La's Villingili Resort and Spa . They are proactively offering to serve meals on the beach in a variety of idyllic and romantic places... “The resort will...
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