![]() ![]() The resort is all-inclusive and the diving is run by the very professional and award-winning Prodivers – good chance of seeing manta rays from May to November.įrom £1,788 pp for six nights, including UK flights. The diving in the atoll is excellent and includes the Shipyard site with two very diveable wrecks and Madivaru Kandu is a high-energy channel pulsing with pelagics. It is in Maldivian terms a relatively large island nearly 2km long and up to 325m wide, and there are more than 380 rooms. Kuredu was one of the first resorts in the area and has been popular with divers for more than 20 years. Lhaviyani Atoll which lies about 100 kilometres north of the international airport has less tourist development than other atolls. Website KUREDU RESORT & SPA, LHAVIYANI ATOLL ![]() ![]() The diving is gentle with few of the highs you would find further south – but on the plus side there are very few divers and you will have the reefs to yourself.įrom £2,295 pp for seven nights, including UK flights. The island sits just below the Eight Degrees Channel which separates the Maldives and India’s Lakshadweep Islands and, sadly, has been brutally overfished in the past – today they have clamped down on illegal fishing and the pelagics are slowly returning. The dive centre has everything you will need, and you will dive from a traditional dhoni. It seems as if all the village’s families come down to the beach to hang out and relax in the early evening - a totally different experience than the hermetic luxury of being pampered on a resort island. The simple but chic and very environmentally friendly (no single-use plastic & solar power) hotel is in the middle of a traditional village, complete with a school and mosque.Īlcohol is banned on local islands, so you have to take a five-minute boat ride out to a floating bar if you are desperate for a beer. Hanimadhoo in the far north of the Maldives has a population of more than 2,000 farmers and fishers. See the real Maldives – this is one of the few hotels based on an inhabited island. Revillagigedo Archipelago & Guadalupe Island. ![]()
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