The Maldives ranks number 3 among the 28 finalists of “New 7 Wonders of Nature” which also includes popular tourist destinations from across the globe such as the Grand Canyon in USA, Puerto Princesa of Palawan, Philippines, Indonesia’s National Park Komodo, and the Amazon Rainforest.

Award-Winning W Maldives Resort

New 7 Wonders of Nature is a worldwide campaign featuring clearly defined natural sites that have neither been created by nor significantly altered by humans for aesthetic reasons. Currently, the Maldives ranks no. 3, with a 99.74% increase in the past month. Ranking is based on both international and local votes.

Maldives Tourism Promotion Board Encourages Voting

One of the main reasons why Maldives is climbing the ranks in New 7 Wonders of Nature lies in the efforts of MTPB (Maldives Toursim Promotion Board). The organization has been active in various tourism/travel fairs and expos, both international and local. It has also gotten support from the private sector, which is a big plus.

Maldives New7Wonders of Nature Campaign

The Maldives Tourism Promotion Board had some additional motivation for the voters by conducting a raffle at the end of each travel expo. Lucky winners received an all expense paid 1-week holiday at a Maldivian resort sponsoring the event.

Maldives Tourism Promotion Board

If you want to support Maldives in its campaign for New 7 Wonders of Nature, you may vote at their official website at www.new7wonders.com.

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The Maldives Hotel Fresco is a newly built hotel launched in 2006. This luxurious holiday destination in the Male capital island features 40 first class guest rooms.

Maldives Hotel Fresco

Hotel Fresco Maldives also offers special packages and tours for its guests, including Male city tours, fishing trips, and island excursions. The hotel has a 24-hour room service as well.

Maldives Hotel Fresco Accommodations

There are 40 luxury rooms in Maldives Hotel Fresco, each sporting the newest and on-demand amenities. Guests can choose from both deluxe and suite rooms, some of which providing spectacular bay views.

Maldives Hotel Fresco Bedroom

Deluxe accommodations in Maldives Hotel Fresco has individually controlled air-conditioning, wireless internet access, IDD telephone, hot/cold shower rooms, and a personalized digital safe box for your precious belongings. Suite rooms feature all of the said amenities as well, but are much more spacious. Also exclusive to top-of-the-line accommodations include LCD television sets and a private balcony.

Maldives Hotel Fresco Suite

Maldives Hotel Fresco Guest Activities

As a guest in Maldives Hotel Fresco, you are presented with a ton of opportunities for fun and leisure by the hotel service and staff. These exciting activities include fishing excursions, Male city tours, inter-island excursions, beach picnic, and shopping.

For further inquiries and hotel bookings, you may visit Maldives Hotel Fresco’s official website at www.hotelfresco.com.

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The Sheraton Maldives Full Moon Resort & Spa has recently completed the construction of their island getaway’s new phase. One of the main highlights of this widely anticipated re-launch is the addition of 20 brand-new Ocean Villas, located on the eastern side of the paradise island.

Sheraton Maldives Ocean Villa

Guests that will be staying in Sheraton Maldives’s Ocean Villa also has the exclusive privilege to avail of the “Ocean Plus” all-inclusive package which offers a ton of benefits such as daily buffets in various restaurants within the resort, restocked mini-bars, unlimited internet access, allocation of premium brands of alcohol, just to name a few.

Brand New Ocean Villas at Sheraton Maldives

The 20 brand-new villas in Sheraton Maldives Full Moon Resort is designed by a world-class, Thailand-based company know as P49. These luxurious guest homes provide contemporary style and utmost privacy, being totally secluded from the rest of the resort facility.

Sheraton Maldives Ocean Villa Bathroom

Modern in-room features in the Sheraton Maldives’ majestic Ocean Villas also include uninterrupted views of the Indian Ocean, spacious outdoor living space, including plunge pool, dining area, hammock, outdoor shower and a large garden seating area, the Sheraton Sweet Sleeper bed, a large bathroom with stand alone tub, and a walk-in closet among many others.

Sheraton Maldives Ocean Villa Bathroom

Sheraton Maldives Full Moon Resort Upgrades

In addition to the 20 Ocean Villas in Sheraton Maldives, the resort has also announced numerous upgrades in their beach island paradise. Here are some of the new features of this world-class resort.

- 156 Newly renovated rooms also designed by P49

- The new Sheraton branded interactive buffet known as the “Feast”, where you get to see live cooking stations sampling a variety of cuisines.

- The “Sea Salt” restaurant

- Sheraton Adventure Club which is a kids club hosting a variety of fun activities

- Renovation of the Anchorage Bar

- Revamped menu selections by culinary veteran Chef Garth Welsh, who has taken his services to Sheraton Maldives after spending two-years in the award winning Amanpulo resort in the Philippines

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The luxurious Coco Palm Bodu Hithi Resort in Maldives has reportedly been chosen as the venue for the prestigious Miss France beauty pageant this coming year. This grand event will showcase 38 contestants from different regions and territories of France.

Maldives Coco Palm Bodu Hithi

Considered as one of the biggest events to be held in the Maldives, the Coco Palm Resort has proudly announced their affiliation with the globally recognized organization.

Miss France 2011 Contestants to Sample Aspects of Maldivian Culture

According to a statement by the Maldives Coco Palm Resort, the 38 Miss France contestants are going to be demonstrating various aspects of Maldivian Culture during the event. The prestigious beauty pageant has been held since 1920, and is considered one of the biggest television broadcasts in the country.

Miss France 2011 in Maldives

The Maldives Coco Palm Resort is owned and operated by a Maldivian owned company of hotels known as Sunland Hotels. This five-star resort is under the hotel company’s luxury division called Coco Collection.

In addition, the resort also stated that, “The tremendous coverage that Maldives as a destination will receive throughout France and central Europe is bound to give a significant boost to the whole nation as well as the Coco Collection.”

Maldives Coco Palm Resort Information

Location: North Male’ Atoll

Distance from Airport: 29 Kilometers

Number of Rooms: 100 Rooms

Transport: 40 minutes from airport via Speedboat

Room amenities:

- Satellite televisions
- Personal Bar
- DVD player
- Music System
- Private Safe
- IDD Phones
- Hair Dryer
- Hot and Cold Water
- Over head fan
- Individually controlled air conditioning
- Flat screen TV

Resort Facilities & Recreational Facilities:

- Yoga Pavilion
- Tai Chi Pavilion
- Over water fully equipped fitness space
- Infinity swimming pool
- Tennis Court
- Recreation space with Indoor games, Table Tennis, Volleyball, and Snooker Table
- Scuba Diving – PADI certified
- Water sport centre with Sailing, Canoeing, Windsurfing, Water Skiing
- Extensive choice of excursions

Maldives Coco Palm Water Villas

For bookings and inquiries, you may visit Maldives Coco Palm Bodu Hithi Resort’s official site at www.cocopalm.com.

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World-class hotel living simply defines Holiday Inn Maldives. The newest holiday destination in the capital city is also the first one owned and operated by the Intercontinental Hotels Group. Launched in September of 2009, the luxurious 15-story hotel is also said to be the tallest in Maldives.

Holiday Inn Maldives

Holiday Inn Maldives is simply the ultimate choice if you’re planning to stay in Male. It is located near the harbor, with most markets and landmarks within walking distance.

Holiday Inn Maldives Hotel Accommodations

Totaling 117 first-class guest rooms, the Holiday Inn in Maldives has the newest in-room amenities. Aside from enjoying a commanding view of the harbor and beyond, you’re also spoiled with all the comforts of home. Broadband internet, high-definition LCD television sets, coffee/tea making facilities, and in-room entertainment are just some of the luxuries that Holiday Inn Maldives can provide.

Holiday Inn Maldives Hotel Accommodations

Holiday Inn Maldives Hotel Facilities

Holiday Inn Maldives has the most updated and modern set of facilities available in Male. There’s a swimming pool located at the roof top, a first-class fitness center, and the first branded spa in the capital city known as the Coconut Spa.

For those who are engaged in businesses and needing a venue for conferences, seminars, or other special occasions, the Holiday Inn Maldives has a 255 square feet grand ballroom. There are also three more venues for conventions, each conveniently located within the hotel premises.

Holiday Inn Maldives Hotel Restaurant

As for typical tourist, there are a bunch of services and facilities in Holiday Inn Maldives to help you achieve an unforgettable vacation. The hotel provides guided tours in Male, island excursions, scuba diving, snorkeling, big game fishing, seaplane rides, resort day trips, submarine trips, and many more!

To know more about Holidays in Maldives, you may visit www.maldivesdivetravel.com.

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Mookai Maldives is a five-star hotel located at the country’s capital city. It is known to be one of the best hotels in Male because of its outstanding style and premium service.

Mookai Hotel Maldives

Situated near the main jetty of the island, Mookai Hotel Maldives is not only popular for traveling businessmen, but also a frequent choice for vacation-goers. This ten-story landmark hotel features 51 stylish guest rooms which provides all the comforts of home.

Mookai Hotel Maldives Tourist Attractions

Being on the capital city of Male itself, the Mookai Hotel is an excellent venue where you can experience the local lifestyle in Maldives. There are numerous gardens, museums, historic mosques, and markets to explore, with pretty much everything within minutes reach. Guided tours are always available through various travel agencies.

Maldives Grand Friday Mosque

Mookai Hotel Maldives Accommodations

There are 51 stylish and comfortable apartment-style rooms in Mookai Hotel Maldives, with a good number of those providing a fantastic view of the Indian Ocean. Choose to stay in one of these luxurious suites and you’ll have unlimited access to the resort-style amenities that include a roof top pool, sauna and gymnasium.

Mookai Hotel Maldives Accommodations

Catering to both on-the-go businessmen and rich tourists, the Mookai Maldives Hotel will not disappoint in class and comfort. All rooms are equipped with modern amenities such as satellite tv, spacious bathrooms with hot/cold shower, internet access, IDD telephones, and mini-bar just to name a few.

Mookai Hotel Maldives Pool

The Mookai Hotel is one of the most popular hotels in Male where you can easily access the nearby scuba diving sites and romantic islands of the beautiful country Maldives. To know more about Holidays in Maldives, visit www.maldivesdivetravel.com.

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Manta rays and stingrays are rather popular sea creatures in Maldives. Thousands of tourists travel long miles from their hometowns just to experience these marine wonders themselves. These two exotic species of rays not only occur in this tropical paradise, but are also surprisingly common.

Maldivian Manta Ray

Maldives Manta Rays are fascinating sea creatures, attracting scuba diving and marine enthusiasts worldwide in this tropical paradise. There are numerous dive sites in Maldives  that feature sightings of these spectacular creatures. This largest species of rays can grow up to 20 feet and weigh 4,000 pounds heavy but is very friendly and harmless to scuba divers despite their frightening  size.

Maldives Diving with Manta Rays

Manta Rays in Maldives are very popular attractions to scuba divers because of their majestic appearance and unique habitat. These creatures migrate across the 26 atolls of Maldives with the changing monsoons, following seasonal shifts in their planktonic food source.

Maldives Manta Ray Project

The Maldives Manta Ray Project (MMRP) is an organization dedicated to data collection and marine research of mantas in Maldives with the purpose of caring and preserving for the population of these precious creatures. With only 3 years of existence, the project has already gathered data that identifies over 1,500 manta rays in Maldives and counting.

Sharks and Rays

This non-profit research organization also aims to promote greater awareness and understanding of manta rays in Maldives. MMRP conducts education initiatives and other marine conservation activities as part of their responsibility towards a better and safer marine life in Maldives.

Stingray Feeding

Stingrays often dwell on shallow waters in search of their prey. This is the perfect opportunity for you to feed these tooth-less and velvet-like creatures with pilchards and other small fish.

Maldives Stingray Feeding

There are numerous resorts in Maldives that holds nightly stingray feeding events. Before allowing their guests to feed these graceful and gentle sea creatures themselves, a resort professional will give a short orientation about stingrays and their habitat.

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It doesn’t come as a surprise when we say that the Maldives features a tremendous amount of wreck dive sites, given the vast majority of its huge bodies of water. Most tourists actually embark on a holiday in this captivating paradise to experience an unforgettable scuba diving trip.

Wreck Diving Maldives

Some holiday packages in Maldives offer scuba-diving-specific itineraries via liveaboard lodging, which is probably the best way to experience wreck diving. Although, there are also numerous resorts that organizes wreck diving trips as part of service to their guests.

Maldives Victory Wreck

The Maldives Victory Wreck is probably the most popular shipwreck open for commercial diving in the country. This 110 meter long vessel sank on the western side of Hulhule Island back in 1981, and has gradually turned into a natural habitat for a colorful and exotic variety of marine life.

Maldives Victory Wreck

The ship’s main deck is to be found at a depth of 12 meters, where you’ll be greeted by turtles, large groupers and tuna. The Maldives Victory Wreck is classified as an advanced dive, mainly because of strong currents and the many sharp objects surrounding the site.

The British Loyalty Wreck

Another interesting dive in Maldives is the British Loyalty Wreck. This 140 meter long ship was neutralized by Japanese torpedoes during the Second World War back in 1946.

Maldives Wreck - The British Loyalty

The British Loyalty is a very popular wreck site in the Maldives’ Addu Atoll. With its upper portion at a depth range of 17 meters, the ship’s vertical orientation basically allows beginner-friendly diving. More experienced divers can easily explore the British Loyalty’s propellers at 29 meters deep, and could also swim through its torpedo hole in the hull.

British Loyalty Wreck Diving

Aside from the usual reef fishes, some of the other marine features of the British Loyalty Wreck include large sea turtles, omnipresent wrasse, parrotfish, clownfish, angelfish, and bannerfish.

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In an arrow-shaped island locally known as Lakanfinolhu lies the Paradise Island Resort in Maldives. Opening its doors to worldwide tourists back in 1994, this majestic hotel structure is famous for its first-class service, eco-friendly architecture, five-star lodging, and is surprisingly rather affordable.

Paradise Island Maldives Resort Activities

Paradise Island Resort Maldives is no doubt an attractive tourist destination, with a variety of restaurants to dine-in, a huge range of water sporting and other leisure activities available, not to mention, the perfect opportunity to relax in its world class spa.

Paradise Island Maldives Water Villas

This beautiful resort at the Maldives’s North Male Atoll is easily reached by seaplane or speedboat in short day trips. In Paradise Island, you get a chance to escape the stress of city living, as it is surrounded with lush greenery, flawless white sand, and crystal clear waters.

Paradise Island Resort Maldives Accommodations

Bond with nature as you enter Paradise Island. The luxurious guest accommodations here are all spacious and comfortable, certainly rating amongst the best in Maldives. Its excellent design is mostly highlighted by elegant furnishings of local Maldivian wood, a fantastic panorama of the ocean, and simply the beauty of its surroundings.

Paradise Island Maldives Beach Villas

All deluxe beach bungalows in Paradise Island Resort Maldives are fully equipped with modern amenities such as satellite television, IDD phone, in-room safe, mini-bar, hot/cold shower, air-conditioning, and a private veranda.

Dining at Paradise Island Maldives

There’s no denying that one of the best things-to-do during a vacation is to eat. Here in Paradise Island Resort Maldives, you’ll get to experience an unforgettable feast. Guests has the option to dine in any of these tastefully decorated restaurants and cafes.

Main Restaurant – Breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets are served daily.

Ristorante al Tramonto & Sunset Bar – Italian cuisine in a romantic setting. Provides an excellent overlooking view of the sea.

Fukuya Teppanyaki – A cozy indoor restaurant, not only serving authentic dishes, but sporting a true Japanese design as well.

Dhaavan Coffee Shop – A casual snack bar with once a week DJ nights.

Karaoke Bar – Friendly atmosphere for karaoke lovers.

Beach Bar – Conveniently located right near the beach and water sports center.

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Shark diving is a very exciting and popular activity in a country surrounded by vast bodies of water such as the Maldives. It is a common misconception that shark diving is an extremely dangerous activity, given the species’ notorious underwater reputation and unpredictable behavior. Although in truth, there are many kinds of sharks which actually allow safe diving.

Maldives Shark Diving

In the Maldives, there are many kinds of sharks you may encounter, making the possibilities of your underwater adventure endless. There’s also something for every level of diving skill and preference. For beginner to advanced divers, Shark diving in Maldives is not only safe. It can be a very unique and fascinating experience.

Shark Diving Trips in Maldives

Whether you’re staying in a resort or enjoying your holiday via liveaboard, the accommodating party is most likely to have shark diving in its menu. Liveaboards are usually the superior choice, as these first-class Maldives holiday cruises basically intend to provide its guests a scuba diving holiday not to be forgotten.

Whale Sharks in Maldives

Whale shark diving is extremely popular for liveaboard divers in Maldives. The ship captain with the help of a very experienced and well-trained staff can spot a whale shark approaching or near the ocean with ease.

Maldives Whale Shark

Once it has been spotted, guests may simply grab their snorkel gears to meet these friendly marine creatures. Swimming with whale sharks are pretty much commonplace in Maldives and a safe activity even for first timers.

Maldives Grey Reef Shark

The grey reef shark is probably the most commonly sighted kind in Maldives. These seemingly dangerous underwater species are actually safe to dive with. Many popular dive sites in Maldives such as the Maaya Thila and Cocoa Corner offer sightings of grey reef sharks, where they usually hunt their prey. Unlike whale sharks, these kinds are usually seen while diving. An opportunity not to be missed by any avid marine or scuba enthusiast.

Maldives Grey Reef Shark

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