Atoll Explorer

Atoll Explorer

Atoll Explorer Equipments, Facilities,& Extra Activities : Private Charters, Security Safe, TV, Binoculars, Mobile Phone, Live Bouys, Medical Oxygen, Audio/Visual Room, DVD Collection, DVD/VCD Player, Music Player, Ipod Docking Station, Public Computer, Game Room.


Atoll Explorer has been especially designed for Maldives live aboard diving cruises since 1996, when she became the first ship to offer first class cruising in the Maldives.

The atmosphere on board is that of an exclusive, well-run, floating family hotel. Dress code is shorts and swimwear during the day and casual dress in the evening, both on board and in the Maldives islands.

With a maximum of 40 passengers, guests soon get to know each other and every week long live aboard Maldives cruise become a jolly party with friends. With its scuba diving activities and different dive sites and visits to luxury Maldivian resorts, village and uninhabited islands, Atoll Explorer provides a unique and fun-filled way of getting to know the best that Maldives has to offer living aboard. Atoll Explorer comes equipped with 20 cabins, simply furnished with either a double bed or two single beds with attached bathrooms. On board the Atoll Explorer, there are several facilities to make your live aboard Maldives stay more comfortable including a restaurant and bar for your dining needs.

 Maldives Reservations/ Inquiries Information : 39 Orchid Magu, PO Box 2015 Male 20-02. Phone: (960)3323080, (960)3325301.

Anantara Kihavah Villas The Natural Beauty of Untouched

Anantara Resorts latest hideout in the largest island paradise on Earth deliver on new chapter unique guest experience unsurpassed in luxury surrounded by the natural beauty of untouched. Anantara Kihavah Villas is a luxury five star resort set on Kihavah Huravalhi island of the Maldives, one of the most pure, which is located only 35 minutes by seaplane from Male ' international airport.

With an area of asylum 78 private pool set above the water or tracts of land located along a pristine private beach, the resort that opened early 2011 defines the island sanctuary. Anantara Kihavah Villas very interested in collecting stories of tourists bringing closer to the charm of nature, culture and history of this fascinating island, and nowhere more perfectly articulated than in heaven in the Earth.

Guests are spoiled for choice when it comes to eating, with six restaurants and bars, each offering distinctive menus, settings and atmosphere. View and enjoy The abundance of marine life with India down to lovers of travel in one of the wine cellar under the water and some restaurants in the world, the sea. Located on the edge of the reef, the main display window that is ready on the side channels that provide spectacular displays of fish and marine life in the vicinity.

Anantara Dhigu Resort & Spa

Anantara Dhigu Resort & Spa, comprised of extensive over-water suites and beach villas, some with private pools. Only 35 minutes from the Male international airport of speedboat ride. Setting up a tropical lagoon Maldives paradise creates amazing natural wonders, where the hottest leads heartfelt welcome to the journey that can be very casual or totally refreshing. From the moment you arrive, peer into the crystal waters under the dock in a Sting Ray puffer fish, small reef sharks. Take part in a variety of water sports including diving, snorkeling, and glove hope island.

37 Sunrise Beachfront Villas, 25 Sunset Beachfront Villa, 18 Sunrise Suites, 18 Sunset Overwater Suites, 2 Sunset Pool Villas, 6 Pool Villas,  2 Anantara Overwater villas pool. Any type of room you choose, all are air-conditioned with TV, DV D/CD player, mini bar, storage box, in-room coffee machine, access the intemet, terrace or sun deck, snorkel equipment and sunbeds and more of a bathroom-sized indoor or outdoor.

Relax at Anantara Spa with various treatments of famous signature. An array of cuisine options await from butfets Fushi International Cafe, Italy to dish on the Terrazzo or enjoy the fresh Grill at Fuddan. Anantara Dhigu enioy also guest access to a choice of eating more in the sister island of Anantara Veli.

Anantara Dhigu Resort & Spa location : South Male Attol, 35 minute from airport by speedboat.

Honeymoon in Maldives

If the honeymoon is the most important as a beautiful celebration of love in the atmosphere, intimate, undisturbed, then the Maldives is the best place for all these things in the world. You as a couple to feel the charm of holidays and events are presented. Dinner under the stars with occasional flashes of light a candle to bring you back to the real world, a brave vacation to a nearby uninhabited island all by yourself all day, or just lazing in your private bungalow watching the endless turquoise waters, while you are in the room were treated to a spa treatment.

Know each other through the house reef swim around with masks and fins, or dive among beautiful coral bright, is an experience you will become an unforgettable event when you get home. Enjoy some light competition in the evening fishing trip to see a better catch. You will not forget the enchanting boat trip that you made at sunset before anchoring in a suitable fishing spot. As if nature played with sunset colors just to make sure that you remember this day, date, and this love forever.

Honeymoon in Maldives give you a lot of a lifetime experience either. You will relive the honeymoon repeatedly, every time you revisit to these magical islands.

Money Changers

Money can be changed at the banks while there are some shops on Chaandhanee Magu offering this service as well.

The Bank of Maldives main branch located in the capital. Habib Bank, Bank of Ceylon, Mauritius Commercial Bank, State Bank of India, HSBC located in Boduthakurufaanu Magu along the north-east corner of Male. The Mauritius Commercial Bank located in Orchid Magu.

There are a number of ATMs of Bank of Maldives and other banks located at key points of the capital. There is one State Bank of India ATM near the artificial beach and one near the ADK hospital, there is also one Bank of Maldives ATM near ADK Hospital as well as one near Olympus theatre located in Majeedhee Magu.

You can withdraw money at these ATMs using your credit or debit card.

Fishing in Maldives

A day of fishing be able to establish relaxing and a lot of fun. Hiring a fishing boat, or a 'dhoni' as they are known in the vernacular, is low-cost and includes qualified fisherman to navigate the craft.

Big Game Fishing
Maldivian resorts on top of private charter operations recommend big game fishing trips. Adrenaline junkies be able to savoir that sensation of hooking a large yellow-fin tuna, wahoo, marlin or a majestic sail-fish on such trips. There are no local laws that require the mandatory statement of big-game fish after catching and often the catch are taken back to the resort for a Maldivian style BBQ.

Night Fishing
Night fishing is a to a great extent more leisurely thing than big-game fishing. Almost all of the resorts present regular night-fishing trips or you might even book a trip from a private charter operation. Red snappers (locally known as the tastiest reef fish around), groupers, grunts, etc are worthy and formidable catches. Do remember to release endangered species such as sharks if caught.

The Whale Submarine in Maldives

The whale submarine is capable of carrying a maximum of 50 passengers and reaching depths up to 150 metres though it normally goes and stays at depths between 10m - 40m as this is the range in which coral growth and fish life are abundant.

The whale submarine operates from the capital Male’ and is docked near to the capital. Bookings can be made directly from their office located in Male’ or from your selected resort. Prices for adults range around US$75 and US$38 for children. Discounts maybe available for the whale submarine group bookings.