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Ekefaru Inn

Guesthouse island in Gaafu Alifu. Its reef is measured from satellite; guest reviews live on the booking sites.

Guesthouse islandVillingili
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The property at a glance
6.2/10
Guest rating · 10 reviews
via Booking.com
6
Rooms
Registry
Domestic flight + speedboat
Getting there · ~382 km from Malé
By distance
Gaafu Alifu · Villingili
Setting
Registry
6.9
House reef · Very Good
Measured →
6.9
The Villingili island reef · shared by 3
Very Good — 338 m to the drop-off, 40% coral or algae cover
The full reef, and how we measured it →
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What we add
Guest reviews rate the whole stay. The reef is the part no booking site measures — and the one thing we score ourselves.
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Snorkelling & marine life

House reef & underwater

Ekefaru Inn · Gaafu Alifu · a shared island reef

6.9

Very Good house reef

Reef Conditions · top 23% of the 297 reefs we have measured


Shore entry Measured

~338 m across the lagoon to the drop-off — a genuine swim, not a wade.

Living cover Measured

About 40% of the mapped reef reads as living coral or algae from satellite.

Heat history Measured

Peak heat stress 4.45 DHW since the imagery, 2 bleaching-alert years on record (2016, 2024).

From satellite this reef reads Very Good — roughly 40% living cover. We have not surveyed it in the water, so fish counts and big-encounter ratings stay pending. We don't estimate them.

Reef data modelled from Allen Coral Atlas benthic & geomorphic maps (CC BY 4.0) and NOAA Coral Reef Watch. No in-water survey — every figure above is a measurement. Marine icons: game-icons.net (CC BY 3.0).

Documented in Gaafu Alifucited

No atoll-level wildlife study exists for Gaafu Alifu that we can cite — so we assert nothing here, rather than guess.

Not established here honest

We only list what the evidence supports for this atoll — nothing is claimed by inference.

Photos

Ekefaru Inn — photo 2
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Ekefaru Inn — photo 3
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Ekefaru Inn — photo 4
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Ekefaru Inn — photo 5
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Ekefaru Inn — photo 6
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Where it is

0.75537, 73.43560

The pin is the island centroid from our geocoding, not the building — properties on the same island share it. Satellite imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.