The Maldives, Barefoot

The journey.

The Maldives most people know is a brochure. Ours is the version the brochure was based on — a resort where the sand between your toes is the dress code and the evening's entertainment is the sky.

The water A house reef off your deck, a dawn swim with reef sharks and rays, and a marine biologist who makes you care about coral by the end of day one.

The nights Dinner alone on a sandbank the staff row you to, an observatory with a resident astronomer, and an over-water villa where the only sound is the sea against the stilts.

Barefoot luxury, meant literally — the most restful week we design, anywhere.