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Best of the Maldives: Flower Name – Mirihi

Published 21 May 13 11:48 AM | Maldives Complete

      100 th Chelsea Flower Show, one of the bellwethers of sunshine and blossoms in climate-challenged England, opens today. To mark the occasion we have our own online exhibit of botanical curiosity. Mirihi not only has it’s very own...

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Best of the Maldives: Lowest Population Density – Soneva Fushi

Published 9 May 13 2:44 PM | Maldives Complete

    Not a person in sight. What most of the prospective visitors on Forums ask about is the lowest population density . Perhaps burnt by crowded beaches and resorts elsewhere in the world, they are drawn to the Maldives by the tranquil seclusion...

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Best of the Maldives: Highest Population Density – Safari Island

Published 6 May 13 12:30 PM | Maldives Complete

  One trick to SEO is ‘keyword density’, ie. packing each page with the words ‘Maldives Resort’ every where. I didn’t think you folks would appreciate such gratuitous, self-serving clutter so I’ve avoided such contrived measures. One trick to ‘Population...

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Best of the Maldives: Twitchers – Sun Island

Published 26 April 13 12:21 PM | Maldives Complete

  Another sanctuary for the airbourne is Sun Island’s Kovelivaa park, the biggest bird sanctuary among the Maldives resorts. As it happens, today is Audubon Day established on the birthdate of the world’s leading ornithological illustrator, John...

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Best of the Maldives: Accessible Sand Bank – Six Senses Laamu

Published 5 March 13 9:42 AM | Maldives Complete

When I need to describe the Maldives to people unfamiliar with them, I say “You know those pictures of a deserted tropical island of a plot of sand in the ocean with a palm tree in the middle?...that’s the Maldives.” But, the even more...

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Best of the Maldives: Open Spaces – Equator Village

Published 4 March 13 3:5 PM | Maldives Complete

If you get geographically claustrophobia, then you can still enjoy the tropical splendour of the Maldives on the more substantial plot of land, Gan. Covering 1500 hectares, it provides expansive open spaces rare in the Maldives. Big enough for an airfield...

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Best of the Maldives: Canopy Entrance – Four Season Landaa Giraavaru

Published 5 December 12 12:33 AM | Maldives Complete

  The arrival jetty is a just one step of an august procession of anticipation when arriving at a Maldives resort. It starts with spying the first splotch of turquoise out your airplane window . It continues boarding your transfer boat/seaplane where...

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Best of the Maldives: Parakeets – Paradise Island

Published 29 November 12 12:1 PM | Maldives Complete

      You can get up close and personal with musical creatures on land as well. Paradise Island features an extremely friendly family trio (mom, dad and kid) of parakeets . My Maldive expert network informs me that another resort also has...

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Best of the Maldives: Natural Frontage – Holiday Island

Published 9 August 12 9:49 PM | Maldives Complete

    Could be dubbed ‘Best Curb Appeal’. All of Holiday Island buildings have been kept sequestered behind bush so the beach looks completely natural. Walking along the beach, you could convince yourself that you were on your very own dessered...

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Best of the Maldives: Orchids - Kanuhura

Published 23 May 12 3:59 PM | Maldives Complete

The sellout Chelsea Flower Show in London started yesterday and tickets are scarcer than some of the prize blossoms trotted out for the horticultural world to admire. Flowers have always been part of the Maldivian paradise spectacle. From lining the flour...

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Best of the Maldives: Beach – Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru

Published 3 May 12 1:38 AM | Maldives Complete

    Whether it’s weddings , tanning, games or just relaxing, one of the best beaches in the Maldives is Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru . Now, the entire Maldives nation is renowned for its seaside, so what makes FSLG so special… Size – FSLG is...

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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: Biggest Lagoon – Chaaya Lagoon Hakuraa Huraa

Published 15 January 12 1:30 PM | Maldives Complete

  To each his own. Many Maldive aficionados focus on the best house reefs as a critical decision criteria. The deep, coral and fish filled features stand in stark contrast to the shallow and sandy lagoons that also permeate the archipelago. Typically...

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Best of the Maldives: Skinniest – Jumeirah Vittaveli

Published 10 January 12 2:41 AM | Maldives Complete

  With so many tempting treats to savour, my wife Lori has decided that she needs to shed a few of the pounds that she brought back with her from our last Maldives trip. She’s started the ‘Rice Diet’ whose first phase includes eating nothing but...

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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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