The island hideaway built for people ‘bored with the Maldives’ Asia

The island hideaway built for people ‘bored with the Maldives’

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Riau Islands, Indonesia (CNN) — An urgent message lit up phones around the island: it was baby sea turtle o’clock. Bawah, a resort island in a remote stretch of Indonesia, has a sea turtle protection program. Three resident marine biologists travel around the archipelago, collecting sea turtle eggs before monitor lizards


A Slice of the Maldives in Kent: The UK's Newest Aquatic Escape
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A Slice of the Maldives in Kent: The UK's Newest Aquatic Escape

A former English quarry offers a surprisingly tropical aesthetic that has visitors drawing comparisons to the Maldives.…