Six Senses Laamu

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In Koh Samui, your stays helps support a local orphanage

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Laamu:

organic restaurant / piano made of drift-wood

A virgin island. Powder white sand. Palm trees. Crystal clear turquoise water. Dolphins frolicking and rainbows of fish shimmering in and around the coral reef. Welcome to Laamu, Six Senses new resort on the island of Olhuveli, deep in the Indian Ocean.

Six Senses Laamu is the only resort on the virtually uncharted Laamu Atoll. From Male airport it is a short forty minute flight and ten minute speed boat ride to paradise. True to its philosophy of environmental protection, Six Senses has created the resort using local, sustainable materials and made only the lightest of footprints on the outstanding natural beauty of the island. It lays bare, ready to be discovered.

The 100 villas have been carefully designed to complement nature, sitting back on the beach amongst the lush, green, tropical vegetation or over the clear, blue, deep lagoon. Each allows utter privacy along with Six Senses signature of the deepest, luxurious creature comforts and acres of airy, open space.

Alongside, peace and rejuvenation Six Senses Laamu also offers a whole bunch of fun. Near to the peaceful blue lagoon is a surfer’s paradise, with majestic ten foot waves crashing on to the beach. Surfing lessons, both board and kite are offered, along with diving, skiing and snorkeling from the Ocean School. Laamu’s coral reef is amazing, divers and snorkelers swimming in virtually nearly un-swum waters with a visual feast before them. Boat trips to dive, swim, ski, snorkel or picnic on a sandbank are arranged daily. There are visits to the tiny fishing village and to the ‘bottomless’ lake, so deep it is black and mirror bright.

At night, Six Senses Laamu really starts to rock. The bar is built over the water and on several levels, with a world class cocktail list, inspired by recipes originated in the tropics and introduced to the wider world by intrepid explorers from its own wine complementing delicatessen – seeing (and tasting) is believing. The Longitude Restaurant is brasserie like, offering salads, fresh fish and pastas as well as an a la carte daily changing menu from Chef Stephen Wheeler. And The Organic Restaurant, perched high above the organic garden, serves the freshest possible food, picked and caught only hours before it is served. Growing in the garden are different types of papaya tree – yes it turns out there are many more than one – and the chili patch (there are many, many varieties of chili) has a private table for dinner parties.

A daily delight is Beans and Leaves, a bar with every available choice of teas and coffee and underneath it, Ice, for those essential sweet moments, crepes and chocolate and just 40 different flavours of homemade ice cream with countless toppings.

The Six Senses Spa offers signature Asian treatments, complemented by specific ones using local Maldivian ingredients, with experienced therapists offering holistic, wellness, relaxing and rejuvenating massage along with old-fashioned, feel good, pampering. Individual treatment rooms are set amongst the trees. The Yoga pavilion looks out across the sea – its good pain, beautiful pain, especially at sunrise – and is above a state of the art Kinisis Gym. And whether it is exercise or relaxation, the natural juice bar nearby serves a healthy, bespoke reward.