Framed by palms and with sparkling turquoise sea, nowhere does beachside bliss like the Maldives. And with a string of new openings, this Indian Ocean the islands’ hotel scene has never looked better.

This story appears in the April 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Picture two boulders dancing. That’s an approximation of green turtle sex: two sumo-size behemoths clipped to each ...

Bora, Ra’iatea and Papeete, the region retains a mystique that stems from the 18th-century British sailors who discovered a ...

Before Charles Darwin came up with his famous theory about evolution, he proposed a theory of how coral reefs and atolls formed. Some of the specimens he collected to support his theory are now cared ...

The Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean comprise seven atolls, with the northernmost atoll called Peros Banhos. Maldivians know the Chagos islands as Foalhavahi which are just 300 miles from Addu ...