Great Holidays to the Maldives

What’s all the fuss about the Maldives? The natural beauty and remote location are two of the first things that come to mind.

For starters, this is an exotic tourist destination in the Indian Ocean, a low-lying island chain and former British colony surrounded by turquoise waters and beautiful coral reefs, which make it a popular destination for holiday-makers.

The Asian island chain is made up of nearly 2,000 islands dispersed over 35,000 miles of the Indian Ocean. It’s an incredible statistic, and makes the Maldives one of the most geographically dispersed nations in the world. It is also one of the lowest-lying, and holds the title ‘lowest natural high point in the world’: at seven feet, ten inches, you’ll have no difficulty making the ascent.

Photographs from the Maldives rarely fail to inspire, and always seem to include pictures of uninhabited clumps of white sand with a solitary palm tree amongst a never-ending vista of turquoise, or a picturesque wooden walkway leading out to a private beach: exactly the sorts of places that the mind goes on blustery January days when the cold of the Northern Hemisphere seems interminable. Many who have visited the remote outpost, often taking a flight from Europe into the capital city of Male, and then taking a seaplane to a smaller island, have said that paradise looks a lot like the Maldives.

The Maldives offers weather to cure the winter blues and further boost its CV with average yearly temperatures in the upper 20s Celsius (low 80s F).

There are plenty of places to stay across the islands, and even the country’s smallest limbs of land seem to have at least one luxury resort for privacy-seeking tourists.

As soon as your accommodation is sorted, your Maldives holidays can be as active or restful as you prefer: there are a full assortment of water sports on offer – especially scuba diving and snorkelling, both of which are particularly famous given the area’s neon-bright coral reefs and exotic fish – but there are also empty beaches on which to completely relax.

The country has a large tourism sector, and most people involved in it will speak good English; however, the national language in the Maldives is an Indo-Aryan language closely related to one spoken in Sri Lanka (where the country’s original settlers come from) and spoken by most of the 350,000 people in the Maldives. The food and culture are in many ways related to Sri Lankan culture, and fascinating cultural experiences can be had throughout the Maldives.