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Atlantis Paradise Island in frames

A lost city built at mammoth scale on Paradise Island — towers over lagoons, a river running through the grounds, and water in every direction you look.

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The great hall on the way in: patterned marble, arches, chandeliers, and the aquarium glowing at the far endThe way in Morning haze over the Royal Towers from a high floor, the grounds still in shadowFirst morning The Royal Towers with the river winding through the grounds belowThe towers and the river Looking down from the balcony: pools, palms and the harbour beyondFrom the balcony The Royal Towers with Nassau harbour behind them, cruise ships in portTowers and harbour The Royal Towers through the balustrade at the end of the corridorThrough the balustrade Dolphin Cay from above, the pens drawn in the clear water like a honeycombThe honeycomb The full sweep of the grounds in one frame: pools, daybeds, palms, then the AtlanticThe whole sweep The waterpark pools from above, the ocean flat behind themThe waterpark from above The main pool ringed with cabanas, seen from a high floorThe main pool A lagoon pool under the slide tower, palms leaning over the deckUnder the slide tower The swimming lagoon curving to the beach, the buoy line drawn across itThe swimming lagoon Clear water over the rock of a predator lagoon, dark shapes patrolling belowDark shapes below A trainer standing in the shallows at Dolphin Cay, two dolphins alongsideDolphin Cay Fountains working along a quiet pool, palms aboveThe quiet pool A fish under the violet light of the aquarium tunnelsIn The Dig The lagoon beach with its interpretive sign, loungers filling under the palmsThe lagoon beach Palms over the beach, the water shelving from white to turquoiseDown to the beach The shoreline at midday, surf folding onto the sandThe shoreline The mouth of the lagoon from above: the spit of beach, then the two blues of the AtlanticThe lagoon mouth The bridge over the lagoon, palms crowding both banksThe bridge Loungers under the palms around a cove pool, mid-afternoonThe cove pool Cruise ships on the horizon beyond the lagoon — Nassau harbour is next doorShips on the horizon Dusk going pastel over the lagoon beach, one palm leaning inDusk on the lagoon The Royal Towers in silhouette against the last orange of the dayLast orange The lagoon holding the last light, purple to blueLast light >