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Fact: It sucks to get sick while traveling, especially if you’re in a foreign country. But it happens. And in the last year, it’s happened to me a lot, from a torn ACL while skiing in Idaho to a bout of gastrointestinal distress in Bangkok, vomiting in the Marshall...

Forget bath towels folded into animal shapes. The Sun Siyam Resorts where I stayed in the Maldives Islands went a step farther. They used palm fronds to create works of art on top of my bed at night. Read more: Ten things to know before you book a trip to the Maldives...

I felt like a character in a James Bond movie last week when I flew in a float plane to reach Sun Siyam’s Iru Veli resort in the Maldives Islands. After a 45-minute flight in the small plane, which soared over a string of tiny islands set against a turquoise backdrop,...

Ten things to know about the Maldives Islands before you book a trip... About 1,200 islands scattered across an underwater ridge in the Indian Ocean make up the Maldives Islands. It takes a long time to get to there from Texas. I flew Austin to New York City to Doha,...