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Best of Maldives - Online: Interactive Map – Dreaming of Maldives
Published 22 April 13 5:37 PM | Maldives Complete
Like the resurgent corals , the vibrant inter-web thingy just gets richer and more colourful every day. When I launched Maldives Complete, there was a really dearth of good, useful information about the resorts. The resorts themselves had weak and limited...
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Best of the Maldives: Make-Up Table - Velassaru
Published 27 February 12 6:22 PM | Maldives Complete
  The award for “Best Make Up” might have gone to ‘ The Iron Lady’ last night, but the Best of the Maldives Award for ‘Best Make-up Table’ goes to Velassaru . All too often the ‘make up table’ is stuck away in some alcove or hallway typically between...
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Best of Maldives Online: Most Languages - Velassaru
Published 21 February 12 5:43 PM | Maldives Complete
Today is UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day which seemed an appropriate occasion for a shout out to Velassaru for their language rich and diverse web site. Their 8 supported languages far surpasses any others I have come across… English...
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Best of the Maldives: Sand-Between-Toes Dining: Velassaru
Published 16 December 11 8:55 AM | Maldives Complete
Dining on the beach is pretty standard now, but dining ‘in’ the beach? There are ‘beach chairs’ and then there are ‘beach’-chairs. As in ‘made out of beach’. And I don’t mean ‘beech’. If...
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Best of the Maldives: Bean Bags–Velassaru / Baros
Published 24 October 11 1:36 PM | Maldives Complete
  If you don’t want to sit on a gigantic beach towel, then Velassaru has the biggest beach beanbags I have ever come across…” Fatboys ”. Bean bags are becoming more an more popular in the Maldives as a cozy seating. We saw them at Kurumba and Kandooma...
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Best of the Maldives: Biggest Water Villa Private Pool – Velassaru
Published 20 October 11 8:44 AM | Maldives Complete
If the biggest private pool is not enough aquatic acreage for you, then of course you have the water villa option. And if you really want it all, then you can have a big private pool on your water villa. Velassaru’s Water Suite features a 30 metre...
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Best of the Maldives: Biggest Glass Floor – Velassaru
Published 24 September 11 2:40 PM | Maldives Complete
  For those with weaker sea legs, you don’t have to go on the high seas or undersea to have a window to Maldivian marine life. In fact, just this week the topic of glass floors came up on the Trip Advisor Forum . A couple of posters dismissed them...
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Best of the Maldives: Fish Frenzy - Velassaru
Published 14 August 11 8:6 AM | Maldives Complete
A perfectly tranquil lake-like ocean with shimmering shades of mottled blue...then suddenly it erupts with a hundred tiny splashes. What the...? This is fish hunting. Big fish going after little fish. The little fish congregate in big schools for some...
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Maldives Tour 2011 – Day 11: Velassaru
Published 29 July 11 4:48 AM | Maldives Complete
You never forget your first time. Lori and I returned to the first ever island that we visited in the Maldives back in 1996. Back then it was the 3 and half star ‘Laguna Beach.’ Simple, but enchanting for us first-timers. It wasn’t the...
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Photo Paradise
Published 14 March 11 8:10 AM | Maldives Complete
The upcoming ‘ Times Travel Photo Competition’ and the incorporation of the some of my favourite pictures of the Maldives by Sakis evoke own favourite pictures. The photo above is not just one of the my favourite photos we have taken in the...
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