The choice of hotels in the Maldives has never been greater
The Maldives has diversified its activity holidays too. Pro surfers have tackled the waves around the Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Kuda Huraa, which has its own annual surf competition and a Tropicsurf school. Tropicsurf also operates out of resorts such as Anantara Dhigu, Como Maalifushi and Gili Lankanfushi, while over at Four Seasons Private Island at Voavah, there’s a motor yacht that can sail you to a number of secret surf breaks you’ll most likely have to yourself.
When it opened at the end of 2016, the seven bedroom private island of Voavah was billed as the world’s first exclusive-use UNESCO hideaway, given its location within Baa Atoll, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve since 2011. But if all that privacy gets boring and you want to be more sociable, you can use the hotel’s motor yacht to cruise over to the nearby Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Landaa Giraavaru and hang out.
At the Four Seasons you can put your name down for “Manta on Call”, a service that contacts you wherever you are in the resort and whizzes you by speedboat to manta ray sightings. Since 2006 the resort has been the home of the Maldivian Manta Ray Project, and through its initiatives such as Manta Researcher for the Day and private manta “seafaris”, you can get to know more about these incredible creatures. They especially love Hanifaru Bay, tempted here – particularly from May to November – by the huge amounts of krill and plankton. If you happen to be there around full moon, you could see as many as 100 mantas congregating.
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