An island with a daily life

Maafushi is an inhabited island in the Maldives’ Kaafu Atoll. It offers a different setting from the image of an isolated resort: a place where island life and visitors share the same small geography.

The colour of the shoreline

From above, the meeting of land and shallow water creates a striking palette. The island’s compact outline makes the sea feel close to everything, turning the shoreline into the organising line of the landscape.

An earlier journey

I visited Maafushi before my journey to Makkah and Madinah. It is a useful reminder that the Maldives is a country where people live and work, not only a picture in a holiday brochure.

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