Maldives Travel Guide

Maldives Resort

Here you can find almost everything you wanted to know about the Maldives and plan your Maldives travel.

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Maldives Travel Information - Location Of The Maldives

The Maldives is a group of 1200 separate tiny islands set in the Indian Ocean with India and Sri Lanka being the closest neighboring countries.

Only approximately 17% or one-sixth of these 1200 islands in the Maldives are populated. Male is the capital and the most densely inhabited island.

But while Male, it seems, is simply bursting from the seams, there certainly are no space problems on the other islands. Male alone holds about a third of the Maldivian population while the remaining are scattered around various other islands.

A Brief History Of The Maldives

While there are no certain facts, it is estimated that the Maldives have been populated as early as 1500 BC, most likely explorers from India and Sri Lanaka (Ceylon).

During 1152 there was a conversion to Islam although there was a brief period from 1558 to 1573 when the Maldives was taken over and ruled by the Portuguese.

The Maldives was first under Dutch rule and then under British protection in 1887. In 1968, three years after independence in 1965, the Maldives became a republic.

President Maumoon Abdul GAYOOM who is currently in his sixth terms of office has dominated the islands' political scene since 1978.

The president and his government have pledged to embark upon democratic reforms, following riots in the capital Male in August 2004, including an expanded political freedoms and a more representative political system.

Maldives Island Resort and Travel Guide - The Last Paradise on Earth

Lush tropical islands and Robinson Crusoe type isolation in heavenly turquoise blue waters - these are just some of the many images that come to mind when you go deeper into this Maldives travel guide.

This is a beautiful world beyond the imagination of most people where you’ll discover a new world altogether. A world where you can be one of a small handful of people that have an island all to themselves.

This website is dedicated to tell you everything you need to know about these tiny palm-fringed on Maldives resort islands. You can even access to video clips.

Tourists are being wooed by resorts in the Maldives travel programs with promises of 'the last paradise on earth'.

You will not be disappointed, if your idea of paradise is a pristine, pure white beaches, tranquil tropical island with swaying palm trees, and brilliant turquoise lagoons.

This group of 1200 coral islands of fabulous reefs and the wealth of marine life is also a major destination for scuba divers.

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