While you’re there

• Keep your camera handy to take pictures on the sea-plane flight from Male to Niyama, where you board a boat for the final leg to Kandima • Go on a sunset fishing trip. We linecaught red snapper and an Emperor in the Maldivian manner and ate them for supper the next night • Enjoy a piña colada in the round seating pods set in the 100m pool —the biggest in the Maldives—in front of the Breeze bar • Go snorkelling or diving with the resort’s resident marine biologist. The region’s coral reefs are home to 12 species of whale and dolphin, exotically marked lobsters, octopusses and shoals of bioluminescent lionfish • The resort’s aquaholics centre offers every water sport under the sun, from para-sailing to paddle boarding • For those who prefer to stay on terra firma, there’s a luxurious spa, cooking lessons with Kandima’s chefs and an art school