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Are the Maldives Really Sinking?

Published 15 April 13 4:3 AM | Maldives Complete

My first ever guest post and it’s written by Maldivian born and raised Ahmed Shareef who looks at the shifting sands of the Maldive beaches… Maldives are the poster child of a sinking world. If the world is to be inundated by rise sea-levels...

Filed under: destination, climate

Regional Weather Update

Published 21 March 13 11:15 AM | Maldives Complete

  Today’s Spring Solstice is a traditional turning point to the seasons marking the shift to warmer days in the Northern Hemisphere. In the equatorial Maldives, seasonal shifts are marked more by the change of prevailing winds (especially since the...

Filed under: destination, climate

Maldives in Blue Marble

Published 13 February 12 8:1 AM | Maldives Complete

    Now the Maldives is front and (sort of) centre to the flip side of one of the “world’s” most iconic photos. The conventional image of the ‘blue marble’ portrait of planet Earth features North and South America, but now NASA has remedied...

Filed under: destination

Best for Surfing…in the World

Published 28 December 11 4:8 AM | Maldives Complete

“Who would have thought to find a place so perfectly placed between the ocean and the sky.” - Billabong model/surfer & singer/songwriter Catherine Clark What a great way to describe the uniqueness of the Maldives. Describing its perfection...

Filed under: Four Seasons Kuda Huraa, surfing, destination, video

Holiday Shopping

Published 26 November 11 4:45 PM | Maldives Complete

     This weekend in the USA is sort of the unofficial starting pistol for the Christmas shopping season. While purists bemoan the creep of holiday decorations, promos and music into the days before Thanksgiving, discretion dictates that...

Filed under: shopping, site, destination

Best Snorkelling in the World

Published 28 November 10 1:20 AM | Maldives Complete

Is the Maldives the best snorkelling in the world? The debate rages in the diver community about the best diving in the world. A number of clear criteria are considered... Clarity of water Quantity and diversity of fish (including ‘ Big 5’...

Filed under: snorkelling, destination

Great House Reefs

Published 26 November 10 3:12 PM | Maldives Complete

  One of the first questions a true Maldives aficionado asks of a resort is ‘How good is the House Reef?’ When I first heard the advice to seek out the best house reef, I didn’t even know what a house reef was. We arrived at Laguna Beach (the resort...

Filed under: snorkelling, Jumeirah Vittaveli, house reefs, ocean, destination

Top Tip - Dine on the Beach

Published 2 February 9 11:50 PM | Maldives Complete

Many of the resorts hold special ‘beach dinners’ which sometimes are just part of the normal agenda and sometimes incur a supplement charge. Do not miss these. Not only is there usually a distinctive buffet of locally caught seafood and local...

Filed under: tip, dining, Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu, destination

Atoll Terms

Published 29 January 9 12:51 PM | Maldives Complete

Tim Godfrey’s ‘ Dive Maldives’ is really the definitive work on these islands. It is focused on diving, but also has excellent general history, geography and background. The islands may look like plots of sand with a few palm trees,...

Filed under: Tim Godfrey, geography, destination

Atoll Formation

Published 11 January 9 10:46 AM | Maldives Complete

The defining element and the very essence of the Maldives are the coral atolls. Aesthetically and aquatically stunning geological formations that captivate from the first moments where the long haul jet is coming into the area on arrival. One of the first...

Filed under: atoll, destination

Greetings of the Season

Published 21 December 8 9:15 PM | Maldives Complete

Greetings are always a curious part of any language. The Hawaiians have ‘aloha’ which means ‘hello’ and ‘good bye’ as does the Italians’ ‘ciao’. The English - as in what people in England speak - have...

Filed under: Maldives, Dhivehi, language, Dilbert, destination, fun

Maldives for Families

Published 14 December 8 9:11 AM | Maldives Complete

(our children, Isley and Chase, fish watching including ‘wading with the sharks’ – harmless, mini-black tipped reef sharks – on the right) I had originally thought of creating a web site on the Maldives called ‘Maldives for...

Filed under: kids, destination

Air and Water Temperature

Published 1 December 8 6:31 AM | Maldives Complete

People often ask when the best time of year to go to the Maldives is for the best weather. As you can see from the chart above, provided courtesy of Hayes & Jarvis Maldives catalogue, there really is no bad time of year. January through April is the...

Filed under: water, temperature, weather, destination