The ring reef
The lagoon is enclosed by a near-continuous reef — calm inside, drop-off outside. Snorkel directly from the beach.
A near-perfect oval of palm and sand. No village. No airport. No traffic. Just a single low-density resort that hides into the trees, and a coral wall outside the lagoon that drops to thirty metres a short swim from your room.
If you set out to design a private-island holiday from scratch, you'd end up with something close to Bangaram. Forty villas on the entire island. Three kilometres of beach. A reef wall that drops to thirty metres a short swim from your room — and a dive boat that never feels crowded because there's nobody else on it.
The lagoon is enclosed by a near-continuous reef — calm inside, drop-off outside. Snorkel directly from the beach.
A small freighter sits in shallow water off the western shore — a fascinating snorkel and a popular intro-dive site.
Green and hawksbill turtles are basically resident. Sightings on most snorkels and almost every dive.
Forty villas on the entire island means even at full occupancy you’ll have stretches of beach entirely to yourself.
Bangaram is the only uninhabited resort island in Lakshadweep — ~120 acres of coconut grove ringed by a shallow lagoon and a living coral reef. On still nights the shoreline lights up faintly blue from bioluminescent plankton.