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Best of the Maldives: Squash – Palm Beach

Published 5 February 12 7:52 PM | Maldives Complete

  Also a bit longer swim away are the world junior squash championships in Chennai, India. Reethi Beach, with its surperb racket sports centre , is a top contender for Maldives squash honours. But Palm Beach features not only a brand new court, but...

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Best of the Maldives: Ocean Swim – W Retreat

Published 4 February 12 9:19 PM | Maldives Complete

    Sometimes you want the local island to be just that bit further away…especially if you are an open water swimmer. Swimming in a lagoon is like have your own, gigantic, tropical fish stocked super-Olympic sized pool. In the morning, it is...

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Best of the Maldives: Free Diving – Six Senses Laamu

Published 26 January 12 11:25 AM | Maldives Complete

  Not ‘ Free Diving’ as in ‘Free Beer’. ‘Free’ as in free of any artificial aids. A bit of a crazy and often quite dangerous sport. Its practice has been reigned in over recent years after some fatalities. But now the sport is more restrained and...

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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: Water Driving Range – Palm Beach

Published 21 November 11 6:34 PM | Maldives Complete

    This week marks my 6 th anniversary of blogging . I actually first cut my teeth on digital media a number of years prior to the launch of the Maldives Complete blog. I first started writing about “ Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity...

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Best of the Maldives: Beach Tennis – Palm Beach

Published 29 October 11 1:1 PM | Maldives Complete

  While perhaps the most famous ‘beach’ sport (and the only one of Olympic standing), Beach Volleyball is not the only ‘beach’ game in town. In fact, there are so many, that the Maldives was just this month announced as host of the next 2013 South...

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Best of the Maldives: Beach Volleyball – W Retreat

Published 28 October 11 2:11 AM | Maldives Complete

If you like your beach time a bit more active, then probably the most popular beach activity is Beach Volleyball. Not just in the Maldives, where it is definitely the sport you will see most often set up at resorts by the waterside with often a keen staffer...

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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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Best of the Maldives: Sports Island – Chaaya Reef Ellaidhoo

Published 13 July 11 11:50 AM | Maldives Complete

Photo courtesy of Francisco Negrin Some people like having activities of a water sports centre, but others don’t like the noise and activity. A solution...put them all on another island as Chaaya Reef Elaidhoo has done.  The sports centre is located...

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Best of the Maldives: Paddle-boarding – Four Seasons Kuda Huraa

Published 4 July 11 7:32 PM | Maldives Complete

  Happy 235 th Birthday America! I wanted to feature something distinctively American in honour of July 4 th Independence Day. I’ve already covered basketball and I couldn’t find any hot dog stands, so I’ve settled on ‘ Paddle Boarding’ .  Invented...

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Best of the Maldives: Bungee Trampoline – Beach House at Manafaru

Published 27 June 11 3:2 PM | Maldives Complete

  Most people don’t need much assistance in jumping for joy in the Maldives. If you do, the Beach House at Manafaru has a ‘ bungee trampoline’ ... “One of the unique highlights of Play, children will love bouncing their time away on this popular...

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Best of the Maldives: Surf Shack – Four Seasons Kuda Huraa

Published 22 June 11 11:38 AM | Maldives Complete

  Plenty of great surf spots in the Maldives (even more if you do kite surfing ), and a number of resorts offer surfing equipment and instruction , but there is only one ‘Surf Shack’ around – Four Seasons Kuda Huraa’s TropicSurf. The Surf Shack sells...

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Best of the Maldives: Cricket – Kuramathi

Published 18 June 11 12:35 PM | Maldives Complete

  Maldives may not be a ‘Test Status’ cricket nation, but they love their wickets as much as their Subcontinent neighbours. Their closest Indian Ocean neighbour Sri Lanka is right in the middle of a Test Match with England at this very moment. If...

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Best of the Maldives: Running – Shangri-La

Published 16 April 11 1:20 PM | Maldives Complete

The epic London Marathon takes place tomorrow so which resort is the best place for entrants to get their training in. Once you have carbo-loaded at Kuramathi , head to Shangri-La Vilingili for your training runs. Most Maldive islands would have you running...

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Best of the Maldives: Kite Surfing – Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru

Published 23 March 11 9:11 AM | Maldives Complete

March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb. As such it is classic kite flying season. The seasons are a bit different in equatorial Maldives, but we are heading into the half of the year with a bit more precipitation and breezes from the southwest...

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