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EPA to Investigate Destruction of Sandbank Allegedly by Gili Lankanfushi

EPA to Investigate Destruction of Sandbank Allegedly by Gili Lankanfushi

By Maldives Times 2 min read

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed they are investigating complaints popularized online that Gili Lankanfushi Resort has dug up a trench in a sandbank near K. Himmafushi, over which the resort allegedly had no rights. Residents of K. Himmafushi allegedly stopped digging of the sandbank by Gili Lankanfushi employees on the night of January […]

Gili Lankanfushi’s Private Reserve: World’s largest overwater villa

Gili Lankanfushi’s Private Reserve: World’s largest overwater villa

By Maldives Times 5 min read

(CNN) — Does being “stranded” over a lagoon for several days sound appealing? If not, one destination in the Maldives might change your mind. That’s The Private Reserve, the world’s largest overwater villa, which has more than three football fields’ worth of distance from its nearest neighbors. This mansion-on-stilts belongs to the Robinson Crusoe-inspired Gili […]