Best of the Maldives: Nearest Local Island – Kandooma
Published 3 February 12 12:6 PM | Maldives Complete
    As for intimately close rocks , many islands are just a wade away from each other. Other resorts , companion resorts , deserted islands . But the closest island where Maldivian locals live and work is adjacent to Kandooma . The picture above...
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Best of the Maldives: Floor Decoration – Anantara Veli
Published 1 February 12 3:11 AM | Maldives Complete
    Bed decoration, with petals and blossoms from local gardens, is a longstanding tropical resort tradition practiced with great panache in the Maldives. Kuramathi has innovated on the concept with towel sculptures . And Anantara Veli provides...
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Best of the Maldives Online: Kids Site – Kuramathi
Published 30 January 12 5:4 AM | Maldives Complete
Kaki is not alone in bringing the marine delights and insights home to young guests on the web. Kuramathi’s web site features its very own ‘ Kids Corner’ online . Anyone on the Internet can join in the maritime fun and curiosity with...
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Best of the Maldives: Kids Marine Biology – Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru
Published 29 January 12 9:51 PM | Maldives Complete
  It’s not just the wee turtles and anemone fish that get special nurseries for their development at Four Seasons, but the littlest guest get their very own special area inthe Marine Discovery Centre .  Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru has put...
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Best of the Maldives: Baby Turtles – Four Seasons Kuda Huraa
Published 28 January 12 10:27 AM | Maldives Complete
A real ‘ Born Free’ story in the Maldives are the turtle nurseries that a few resorts support. Our family delighted at the nursery tank that Filtheyo had and visiting it fostered our daughter Isley’s love of turtles and her adoption...
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Best of the Maldives: Dolphins – Rihiveli Beach
Published 27 January 12 7:5 AM | Maldives Complete
The best free divers in the ocean are our aquatic cousins the cetaceans. As I said yesterday, that’s not ‘free diving’ as in ‘free beer’. Nor is it as in ‘born free’. But in Rihiveli Beach it is. Rihiveli have...
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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: Whiskey – Island Hideaway
Published 25 January 12 5:13 AM | Maldives Complete
“Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the puddin-race! Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy o' a grace As lang's my arm.” - Robert Burns, Address to a Hagis Scots...
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Best of the Maldives: Maldivian Experience- Park Hyatt Hadahaa
Published 24 January 12 5:6 AM | Maldives Complete
Happy National Day! A celebration of Maldivian independence from Portuguese rule in 1558. Our recommendation for the resort to celebrate all things Maldivian is Park Hyatt Hadahaa . For starters, they add a bit of an authentic twist to their local island...
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Best of the Maldives: Underwater Art – Soneva Fushi
Published 20 January 12 7:0 AM | Maldives Complete
  In the Maldives you can marvel at nature’s artistry through such masterpieces of its coral gardens , and some resorts feature reef regeneration to aid and complement such artistry, but Soneva Fushi showcased underwater art (which is coming up for...
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New Tags
Published 19 January 12 6:16 AM | Maldives Complete
    Reef-frames are the only things with better labels as I have this week updated the ‘Tags’ used on Maldives Complete. Of course, you can always use Google or the Search facility on the blog to search for text like ‘snorkelling’ or ‘surfing...
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Best of the Maldives: Reefscaping Labels - Kandooma
Published 18 January 12 3:27 AM | Maldives Complete
While for many the downsides of big lagoons are their less dramatic snorkelling and more remote house reef, many resorts now are using Reefscaping to both enhance the snorkelling in the lagoons as well as the aquatic environment overall. In fact, Lori...
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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: 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: 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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