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Best of the Maldives: Underwater Pool – Maaprolfulshi

Published 1 April 13 12:14 PM | Maldives Complete

  Underwater marvels are some of the signature features of the Maldives paradise. And with the flood of underwater restaurants , bedrooms , night clubs , function rooms , spas , cabinet meetings , golf courses , Christmas trees , art , and even scuba...

Filed under: fun, underwater

Flat Empty Water

Published 15 March 13 5:1 AM | Maldives Complete

    Red Nose Day today. No, not a rash of under-applied zinc-oxide, but the UK’s day for goofing around for charity. I love the XKCD cartoon and it’s ‘deeper’ message about how much richness is below the surface. An apt metaphor for the always...

Filed under: fun

Beach Wedding Fail

Published 30 April 12 11:37 PM | Maldives Complete

      Is this some kind of April Fools Joke ? Or maybe just a joke by some fools in April? More evidence that the British Isles are twinned with the Maldives in Opposite Land . At first, it is hard to believe that a country with 11,073...

Filed under: fun

Maldives QI, Part 4

Published 5 April 12 12:8 PM | Maldives Complete

    Having recently had a beer with a writer from QI and keeping up the humour , I thought it time for the next instalment of ‘Maldive QI’… Q: Where do you find the ‘Maldives Coconut’? A: Maldives? Buzzzz! The ‘Maldives Coconut’ is very much...

Filed under: landscape, fun, QI

Best of the Maldives: Underwater Massage – Kurumba

Published 1 April 12 2:14 PM | Maldives Complete

If a sliver of sand is not close enough to aquatic blissful relaxation, then Kurumba’s underwater scuba massage treatment (launched today!) should literally soak away the stress. Aprille Phoulle of the Veli Spa explained… “Many of our...

Filed under: fun, underwater

Maldives QI, Part 3

Published 13 September 11 2:32 AM | Maldives Complete

  Question: What is this a picture of? Answer: A Yellow Box Fish. [Soundeffect]: Ding! Correct. You get no points because that was so easy (it is yellow and it looks like a box). Now, what is the fish below?...     Answer: A grey/green...

Filed under: fun, QI, marine biology

Maldives QI, Part 2

Published 11 September 11 9:1 AM | Maldives Complete

Question: What is this a picture of? Answer: A Jelly Fish. [Soundeffect]: Buzzzz! Wrong. This is a ‘ Portugese Man of War’ which is not actually a ‘jelly fish’ but a “ siphonophore . Siphonophores “differ from jellyfish...

Filed under: Kurumba, fun, QI, marine biology

Maldives QI, Part 1

Published 10 September 11 9:21 AM | Maldives Complete

In honour of Stephen Fry’s brilliant QI (short for ‘Quite Interesting’) TV comedy quiz show returning to BBC this weekend, we feature a couple of Maldives QI questions of our own... Question: What common, colourful fish in the Maldives...

Filed under: fun, QI, marine biology

World’s Worst Snorkelling

Published 3 September 11 1:59 AM | Maldives Complete

  If the Maldives is the ‘ Best Snorkelling in the World’ , then where would be the worst? Hint – Think about the opposite of sunny, tropical weather. Also, think desperate nut cases. The opening line to this MSNBC Today report says it all - “ Wet...

Filed under: snorkelling, fun

Sex on the Reef

Published 13 June 11 4:52 PM | Maldives Complete

Now that I have your attention! (you know, sometimes titles just write themselves…though ‘Polypamory’ was a really close runner-up). The Maldives is renowned for newly betrothed couples consummating their nuptials with a honeymoon celebration...

Filed under: Sheraton Full Moon, romance, event, ocean, fun, marine biology

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...

Filed under: Velassaru, photo, fun

Photosynth Maldives

Published 13 November 9 2:13 PM | Maldives Complete

One of my tasks when I visited Kurumba last week was to get a boat and circumnavigate the island taking pictures to create a Maldives Photosynth . Thanks to the kind assistance of Andreas Ronecker of the Unlimited Watersports centre there, I got a full...

Filed under: Kurumba, fun

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