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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Maldives

The Maldives is a tropical paradise comprising of about 26 atolls.  All atolls are made up of a group of smaller islands.  In total there are 1190 islands.  Only selected islands are inhabited and only a few have hotels built on them.  Each island is surrounded by an exotic marine-life enriched coral reef, offering excellent diving and snorkelling opportunities.  The reefs surrounding the islands ensures a protected lagoon around each island offering stunning, clear turquoise water and the softest, whitest beaches.  What more can you expect in Paradise?  The Maldives is such a unique destination and is many traveller's dream destination.  It will easly succeed in leaving anyone speechless...

Each island varies in size, and one of the many advantages are that each island only have one hotel on it and the islands are often small enough to walk around in about 30 minutes to an hour.  The only inhabitants on a tourist insland are the hotel staff that run the resort.  Another unique feature is that this destination is one of the only that offer accommodation on stilts over water.  This ensures the experience of a lifetime and is really different.  The guests staying at the resorts on islands located in close enough proximity to the main island of Male (international airport) will be transferred to their resort via speedboat. 
The guests staying at resorts on island located too far from the main island, will be flown via sea-plane to their resort.  This promises another exotic and exciting experience to view the Maldives from above. 

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