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Best of the Maldives: Seahorses – Kuredu

Published 21 June 12 10:13 PM | Maldives Complete

    The Queen has been such a supporter of of all of the June Jubilee activities including rocking out at the Buckingham Palace Concert which is probably not her dream Saturday night out. Rather, one’s favourite day in June is most definitely...

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Best of the Maldives: Fluro-Diving – Kuredu / Komandoo / Vakarufalhi

Published 12 May 12 1:56 PM | Maldives Complete

      For an even closer investigation into reef life, state-of-the-art ‘fluro-diving’ has come to the Maldives. Night dives shed a whole new light (or lack thereof) on the undersea world. Night dives never had much appeal to me because...

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Best of the Maldives: Sanitizing - Kuredu

Published 11 April 12 1:2 PM | Maldives Complete

    If your biggest health concern for your skin is germ-free rather than wrinkle-free , then the Kuredu has hand sanitizer dispensers set up all around the resort so people can have a quick clean. I guess I could also dub this one ‘Best for...

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Best of the Maldives: Arboreal Signs – Kuredu

Published 6 April 12 5:45 PM | Maldives Complete

   If you don’t have a tree guide book to hand but still want to know the identity and stories behind some of the striking landscape on the island, then you will appreciate Kuredu . We often describe the Maldives as a plot of sand and a few...

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Best of the Maldives: Beach Cabana - Kuredu

Published 29 March 12 12:10 PM | Maldives Complete

    You can carry on sleeping on the beach during the day with Kuredu’s beach hut cabana. If the Fatboy is not enough comfort for your shore-side lounging. You can book if for half a day for $50. A number of resorts have four-posted awnings...

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Best of the Maldives: Sandcastles - Kuredu

Published 27 March 12 1:30 AM | Maldives Complete

    If you need a visit from Mr. Sandman , then Kuredu has its very own. But he has nothing to do with sleeping. Unless it is a sculpture of a sleeping lady with a horse (?) like the photo above. A whole collection of sand scuptures were created...

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Best of Maldives Online – Facebook Input: Kuredu

Published 16 March 12 5:3 PM | Maldives Complete

          It’s all about the conversation. That’s the conventional wisdom on social media. It’s all very well and good to put up your blog, Facebook page/group, and Twitter feed, but if no one engages, then you’ve sort...

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Best of the Maldives: Pedalo - Kuredu

Published 14 January 12 8:9 PM | Maldives Complete

Photo courtesy of DJ Stotty . At Kuredu’s sporty island , even the leisure boating will get you skinny . The Maldives don’t have many resorts for a long run or bike ride (outside Gan), but there is boundless ocean. Not your English seaside, tired old...

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Best of the Maldives: Longest Shoreline - Kuredu

Published 12 November 11 3:42 PM | Maldives Complete

  Happy Birthday Dad. Today is my father , Edwin Lynn’s , birthday . And probably his best present is his recently published book ‘ Shorelines’ . It’s a present for himself to see this distillation of a life’s work of insight and reflection come...

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Best of the Maldives – Sports: Kuredu

Published 8 August 11 6:50 PM | Maldives Complete

Usually, Best of the Maldives has to focus in on quite particular if not peculiar features in order to justify calling them the ‘Best Of’ among such high quality offerings in the country. So calling Kuredu something as broad and bold as the...

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Maldives Tour 2011 – Day 6: Kuredu

Published 22 July 11 2:34 AM | Maldives Complete

Welcome to Eden. Eden resort of the film ‘ Couples Retreat’ that is. I wrote yesterday about the uncanny parallels between sister resorts Komandoo and Kuredu as depicted in the rom-com ‘Couples Retreat’. One of the plot lines of...

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Best of the Maldives: Online Community - Kuredu

Published 9 June 10 8:21 PM | Maldives Complete

  While TripAdvisor is the granddaddy of the general travel community/forums, many resorts are setting up their own online communities on their websites just focused on their resorts. Some of these have scant posts and interactions (and one in particular...

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Best of the Maldives: Golf – Kuredu

Published 15 July 9 2:18 PM | Maldives Complete

In a part of the world where there is not enough space in one place to land a commercial airplane, you wouldn’t expect to find an activity known for vast expanses – golf. While The Beach House has a golf simulator, Kuredu has a full fledged executive...

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Best of the Maldives: Wreck Dive – Kuredu

Published 29 June 9 8:43 AM | Maldives Complete

Given the omnipresent reefs that literally define the Maldives and the shallows around them, it is no surprise that the Maldives are littered with ship wrecks for divers to explore. But the best locale has to be ‘The Shipyard’ off Kuredu in the Faadhippolhu...

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Best of the Maldives: Turtles – Kuredu

Published 10 May 9 5:55 PM | Maldives Complete

Snorkelling and diving in the Maldives spoils you for colourful scenery and sealife and one of the popular favourites are the sea turtle. Several resorts, like Filitheyo and Banyan Tree Vabbinfaru , operate turtle hatcheries and nurseries. We have always...

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