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The water is crystal blue and clear and there are huts in the water

Tetiaroa · French Polynesia

The Brando

Marlon Brando's private atoll, reborn as a carbon-neutral hideaway.

On the atoll Brando fell in love with while filming Mutiny on the Bounty, thirty-five villas front a lagoon so clear it looks lit from below. The resort runs on coconut biofuel and seawater air-conditioning, and hosts its own marine research station.

Why it's cool

  1. 01Entire private atoll, reachable only by the resort's plane
  2. 02Pioneering seawater air-conditioning and solar power
  3. 03Each villa has its own stretch of beach and plunge pool
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