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Maldives Introduction
I will experience many times to the Maldives dedicated to you, or go to the Maldives for the first time people of ordinary travelers reference information, the rich level tourists do not see.
With the arrival of the Maldives tourism peppery, pile up people travel to the Maldives. A few days antecedent a lot of network together in the travel partition to see such a mutual travel plans: He does not know is that Vabbinfaru Banyan Tree Maldives Vabbinfaru that no water house. The tourists seem impatient to go to the Maldives, but the lessons do not, the target is not clear, may be skillful to do after the Maldives do not know. There are times in the half-way transit time to the Maldives, I chatted with a few tourists found that most visitors do their homework very poor. Go to the islands of their own situation and this is not the purpose of more clearly. Again, I have a homework election Island when, in Google Earth that class Santos Island, there are two Water Villas at the time, all the agents have not had this product suggested, so the agency intended to live in water villas, as agent of this do not know when the island has a water villa, after cross-checking on my set. So homework is essential. To let everybody have fun in the Maldives, I will experience several times to introduce to you the Maldives.
first put amenable the retinue warning to the domestic tourists, domestic tourists want to pay attention to the Maldives.
l some islands in the European tourist season, does not receive the Chinese tourists. This is not ######ism, for instance; MADOOGALI, the Italian team bought a hotel affair, the island received only Italy, Germany, the UK tourists. Probably affected by the recent economy crisis, depress the number of European guests, off-season began this annual in other countries including China received guests. European tourist season is still not receiving visitors from other countries. European Tour season roughly from early November appearance of the end of the end of January.
l some islands do not like the Chinese tourists. A variety of reasons;
1. Chinese tourists, many people do not tip. Usually in the Maldives, and the ground staff, boat and seaplane can not give tips, but tips to get people to take better service. For baggage handling staff, the room waiter, to pay one dollar per day or tip is accustomed, but also the main income of these people. Tipping is not surely unpopular, quality of service also declined. Some people blame this blame. Hotel dining on the island, the buffet usually do not tip, apparent when ordering food, service level to tip $ 1 (each).
2. Few Chinese tourists ordering is ordering, not user drinks. The hotel restaurant is a important revenue Oh. There is no rules, no manners. Dining is not line up do not say, that palatable, one half of a plate on the side hike, affecting poor! In fact, the hotel is always Tiancai people, how will the plate vacant?
3. Chinese tourists to live a short time, four days is a jot up! European tourists are often alive here for a pair of weeks of. The high spend of shuttle visitors.
4. Chinese tourists, regardless of where the loud rumpus, garbage readily litter, causing indignation and visitors from other countries complained to the hotel.
5. pay attention to protect the maritime environment, not just the garbage discarded into the sea, watch the coral in the sea when the prevalent phenomenon of coral collection and trampling. Normal weather conditions, the need for coral regeneratiin season of decades, and now increasingly global weather warming, coral ring once broken it can no longer be restored. So far all Chinese tourists to the island, similar to Full Moon Island, Laguna, etc., have largely not see the whole coral has.
little perception of coral: coral generally two types, one is shrieked hardware coral reef coral, superb,
Nike Shox NZ, the color is not very bright. Another software cried coral, most species, thousands of colors. After the decease of the coral reef, usually turn white, as albinism death. Common mart, made into handicrafts, mostly Acropora, is a coral reef. There are also pearly with brown or slightly green coral point, known as sea stone flowers, but also the coral reef.
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chief position and the Asian Indian Ocean, north-south strip of the island group, the waters cross the equator, the Islamic countries. Year-round mean temperature at 24 degrees, 32 degrees during the day, not four seasons, the wet season and dry season sub-only. But even during the rainy season, most of the rain is very eight minutes, a cloud over the bin, it is complicated to see the series for several hours under the rain. Generally dry during the rainy season in May and October as a dividing line. The best tourist season from February-April, this time the Maldives really calm, other times larger waves, not much impact on the snorkeling, but adore sick people, the impact is slightly larger. The countries from the Maldives, Sri Lanka recently, 770 kilometers to the Sri Lankan flight for one hour (one hour time difference), and Beijing has three-hour time difference. Currency for the citizen money and U.S. dollars, the National General. Use the same language, the Mandarin and English National General, China opened to multinational mobile phone business, you can use in any local islands, but expensive. Every minute more than twenty yuan RMB. In the domestic airport with flights to leave the nation, Chinese tourists in the Maldives to enjoy the visa, passport with at Male airport, air tickets and hotel vouchers accessible thirty days of portal permits. In fact, immigration alone can make you passport, but was set to Male Hotel, price is no great vantage, basically what is there to live, not the elected. Note: The entrance will let you keep a departure card, with the departure card exit, losing it will be very perplexing, and even wrong machine. Had to remind visitors to the Maldives tourism in the country needs a third country airport exit visa. In fact, you just go to the Maldives with passports and tickets to allow exit. It should be noted that: Your passport must be valid for six months or more! This includes your date of departure.
almost no substances produced in the Maldives, tourism and narrated revenues accounted for 85% of total citizen proceeds or more. A small number of fish, handicrafts and souvenirs. Consumer prices in the Maldives is not priceless in general, prices are pretty even and European airports; U.S. $ 3-5 a bottle of 300 ml cola, a local postcards also embody $ 1 postage. Therefore in the Maldives, the best increase to the banana, nought to buy. Security, the hotel is the best, apart from a few Chinese tourists to go up to the hotel, Chinese tourists have complained, there is little money and missing records, even if the morning you put money on the table, wash up after a day of the second later, will not be a penny less (if the U.S. put the pillow, the servant will go Oh when the tip proceeds). Airport to be a lot worse, I have a second family at the airport check-in baggage, returned to Shanghai and found that luggage is opened, all lost something precious, value more than 70,000 RMB, of special note the thousands of photos, and more than ten hours of underwater video wastage, truly heartbreak. Capital is very poor, a total of about 8 square kilometers of the island, the enrolled population over three hundred thousand, the population density, road approach the port is only two lanes, bicycle paths, all other. Buy things you can bargain, hard sell rare occurrence. But when you have lost your exhort and guide regional people to do lead you to the chief around the time you buy something and eat the cost, would certainly turn your own cost is much higher. If your English can not cope, then best not to wander.
the best of your English namely very good, good communication will surprise you, once we set a six-member delegation to the Taj Coral Reef Island FB, a friend of English namely quite good, a check Jiliguala Dayton speaking, really for us to conquer three meals a daytime plus a free beer when you drink concessions, so the envy of additional passengers. But by the time you do not muddle with whichever trouble, then, will some easy English, you fret to work well. English is really my basic educate graduates tin not reserve up with, merely I reason single English, but also to the 3 and did not meet any difficulty.
to Maldives snorkeling
First we must clear our intention. Many presentations that Maldives is a heaven for tourists. The heading should say yeah. But we must know the averaging of that term. Heaven is that it's overall condition or state tourist island is first class. So, be exact; favorite island heaven for tourists. Therefore, the most worthy of the Maldives in the international community to the 20 islands, has been ranked first.
1. First-class hotels and services. Do not look like a thatched house looks, but the internal facilities and a cosmopolitan city with the level of the hotel by no means inferior. Certain conditions even better, so that it can be said of the unique, such as the Hilton Hotel underwater restaurant. The hotel level to six stars rating from Samsung, for tourists choose.
2. Large number of islands with very good snorkeling and diving conditions. Visibility in the water more than 30 meters. Very clear.
3. Visa allows you to save a lot of trouble, settled flight, calm and tranquil island, suitable climatic conditions, the Maldives throughout the year so that visitors can have fun.
4. There are a lot of activities available to visitors to choose.
world prominent tourist island or beach a lot, one on certain conditions, there are also more than the Maldives. Such as Australia's Great Barrier Reef, far better than the new state of Maldives coral, but the other conditions is difficult and the Maldives, compared to living in Cairns, Every time I go snorkeling, to nearly two hours by boat. I have been to several Paracel Islands, where the snorkeling conditions are not poor according to the Maldives, the original ecological conditions are very good, but the climate, settlement and so the conditions can not be compared with the Maldives. In fact, the best snorkeling in Okinawa than in Japan, although Japan to open China's personal travel visa, but conditions remained coarse and petition blocking a lot of tourists. Similarly, other similar tourist attractions, various conditions compared with the Maldives, but always much worse, so unable to Maldives Bimei. Therefore, the overall condition of the Maldives is definitely a good tourist island paradise.
Now we travel to the Maldives on a very clear purpose: first dive (snorkel or dive), the second is where the sun and enjoy the food.
swoop very professional I will not say more, but to the Maldives, you did not even go snorkeling, sun all day, slumber, you spend so many money, so hard to sprint the Maldives do? Hainan on it! Some may say that I do not snorkel, not even swim! It is not a problem, my daughter 13 years age, never been snorkeling, most travel to far lands in the swimming pool 25 m, but to bring divers treasures,
Nike Shox TL3, a few meters deep water is several minutes, a trip that is several hundred meters per day at least double. Wear life jackets, bottomless places defiance. So even now you can not swim, go snorkeling is also wearing a life jacket! Some people with a drifting pad or air bed to go snorkeling, you can, but these asset easier to consume a large physical resistance, not as a life jacket safety. Especially plastic buoy and drifting mats, a scamper into the coral, the majority being lanced and exposed gas. At the same time you should always be cautious not to sell. Hands can not grasp what may air dry, like a life jacket, do not influence your hands, you can take pictures, tours and other assist.
the ordinary tourists, snorkeling is the elite of the Maldives. Is relatively easy to grip. Usually one hour you can main the basic ingredients of five hours of snorkeling you can free, 10 hours you can even down to one or two meters of where to be on a little meantime. But note the emulating points:
1. Pay attention to sun damage. Waterproof coating to exposed rind type 50 + sunscreen, but sunscreen is only the function to protect your skin from sunburn, tanning inevitably oh. If you want to tan or wheat color, can be used olive oil instead of sunscreen, olive oil to improve the color effect.
2. flippers, diving mask, snorkel snorkeling Sambo collectively, the best to buy sets of fins feet, do not buy lace. Wear a pair of first thick cotton socks wear flippers, it would not be snug and a lot of coral sand Ge injury or flipper rubs. Swimming goggles is not snorkeling. Have to buy the diving mask, snorkel the best to buy dry, customary and difficult breathing tubes, easy water. Diving snorkeling on the treasures in the many islands is provided free of dictate (which you should ask when production reservation), middling quality, at the peak of you do not resent other people his mouth to bite off, notwithstanding with. Check out the sometime also wants.
3. snorkel note the trend, do not pay attention, then swim out too far downstream, think back will be very strenuous tour, they must first master the tide the flow of the tide to avoid being too far with too Islands, intimidate your security.
4. mirror by the impact of temperature, easy to smog, the best every day with anti-fog agent into the water before handling time, saliva coating on the lenses, fog can also play a character in a short time. It does not matter if the water mirror, the mirror of water inside the upper hand to suppress up, snout to the top of the gas mask, water will be unloaded from the base. This method is to all over several correlates to master. When necessary, will head out of the water re-treatment. Note that when a track of hair with a mask can not be suppressed, otherwise water seepage.
5. If you swim in the sea level in general, it is best to wear life jackets, safety first! Need to be reminded that the vast majority of poor quality of life jackets provided by the hotel are lace. I suggest you spend thirty or forty dollars to buy chips snap, using a life jacket when the hoop tightly on the body, this will qualify you to control your own body without interference, it will not wear your whole body. More convenient to you to manipulate your camera and other supplies.
6. who have large wounds and bleeding, do not snorkel, it will cause the fierce ecology of sharks and eels! Unless you encounter rapids, snorkeling, try not to touch the coral, not to catch fish, to prevent injuries. Some fish watershed with nerve toxin, was pierced to cause anguish, serious when there will be life-threatening. Dead fish did not noxious.
7. snorkel a morsel more bread when you can, edible like instant noodles, rice balls, crush feeding the fish, then will gather around you a lot of fish. But it will not come shark, sharks are not amused in this food. But you do not try to arrest fish at hand, one touch any fish you are sure to stimulate the fish may make self-protective onset you. You know, even one pounds of heaviness of the fish will lightly snapped your fingers!
8. even now you use dry breathing tube, the tube will be water. This time you breathe, there will be rolling sound, Do not worry, the first inhalation, then suddenly the exhaust pipe to. It will pipe the water from the drain valve. Note that when you encounter problems when snorkeling can be physically translated backstroke state, loosen the breathing tube after management.
9. the most beautiful underwater landscape where the junction must be the depth of the water, the fish is large and more, the best coral state. But this rank is more sensitive where the water, and even shallow water depths are up to two meters away, so do not have snorkeling techniques, easy not to this location for snorkeling. But should retain sufficient strength to swim back, because many of the islands to the depth of the water from the superficial junction with tens or even hundreds of meters away, so we have to do what!
10. the vast majority of the Maldives sharks will not attack people, unless the sharks smell blood in Road, will have combative action. Snorkeling in the Maldives when I had several encounters a shark (or even to seek out sharks pictures), which are active to leave. Occasionally you will be ten meters away from the depths of hammering about the woods watching you, but one will slip up. Even when it is the individual near you, you must be calm! Ten million panic, the more nervous the more likely an accident. As long as you are calm and comfortable, the fish will soon leave you.
11. snorkelling attention when tidal fluctuations, fluctuations in tidal water level difference of about half a meter. Maldives is generally in the morning tide, the tide began after 9 to three in the p.m. and then began to ebb (tidal fluctuation in different season, different time, please note). When you are long in large areas of coral snorkeling, when will you avoid the decline and trapped in the coral area. If this occurs, we must not worry, first looked up the direction of the island, and then ascertain the deepest position in the water, try to flatten the body, networked feet with the ankle led to fetch water, and slowly swim out from the coral reef area above . Do not free the drill, there may be more distant islands and into deep water. This time do not stand in the coral, the coral is not only bad foot, but more importantly it will scratch your body. In large areas of coral in standing or walking, scratched, stabbed body of probability, almost 100 percent.
12. If you have a waterproof camera or video camera, ready to shoot when the snorkeling, the water must be carefully checked before a good waterproof stamp, the seal must be applied for all silicone fuel . A imply of cilia or a small ring on the pressure in the coral sand, water seepage and abuse to the equipment will be. Replace the battery or memory card is also remedied in the same time. Can be coated with a thin membrane of silicone oil, primarily to improve and restore the bounce and sealing ring. Security camera or video camera to use the tether on the wrist, to prevent falling into the water. Highly corrosive sea water, once the water is beyond fix. If the device is required after shooting in seawater collection preservation, rinse with fresh water a few minutes, then steep in fresh water for ten minutes, then water rinsed a few minutes. Gap in the camera all the salt cleaned off, dry it and save.
13. If you are snorkeling when passing somebody else's water room, do not quaint to go up, it is a violation of private territory!
14. Finally, when you are snorkeling attach, the good and maintain a close partner to take care of every other. If you want to go ashore, do and partner portrayal. Leave together.
fishing activities is also very good, but you can not equitable fishing in the Maldives, not authorized fishing and coral mining will be a nice of 5,000 dollars. Water House is better for hidden, you can steal went on fishing addiction, can also partake in the organization of the fishing hostel, the hostel rents boats. 2MM fishing on the hand with a line drive extra than 30 meters, 40 of the anchor, the configuration is very penniless. Best ship wand comes with 20 hooks, iron cable strand, 0.1 lines of lead sinkers, 100 grams of lead sinkers and extra with a few, there are also many cozy to hang by the end of the coral. No. 6 bus path or with 0.8 nylon line fishing in the Maldives when I was many times the fish biting baby cable. Even with 1.5 nylon line trolling,
Nike Shox Torch, have been snapped off. Boat fishing and trolling the island has virtually each play. Record is a tourist fishing on Blue Flag over 200 kilos of fish!
As for enjoyment, depends on your economic condition of the. Live alone, the altitude daily fee will be ten thousand dollars or even thousands of dollars, meals and a meal to more than 200 dollars. The minimum stay should be more than two hundred dollars per day, meals 30-50 dollars a tonne, the level of found of tips can alter several times a day! Individual conditions are different, choose a different, can only do what it can not be comparisons.
how to choose the island (Hotel)
First you must contact several travel companies or multi-agency. They can provide the islands to watch. Do more homework.
Maldives by more than 2,000 islands, atolls in 24 just about, the development of tourism the island has less than 200, was bought out of the dozens of international tycoons, the island is outside of these open. Some islands are of international hotel group management buyout, open only to Europeans, which in turn remove the dozens, more than 80 islands about prologue up for Chinese tourists, while domestic travel company signed more than eighty hotel only a small part. All have contracts only about Impex Holidays, which is home of the Maldives tourism companies in the domestic agent, based in Taobao.
Maldives in the island, the airport is an island, the island capital, is another hotel located in one island, a large island with two or three hundred rooms, a small island fifty rooms also. International Hotel Group bought more for the right to operate the island after their development and operation. Generally is an island hotel, there are exceptions, in more than 130 km from the airport there is the RAA Atoll Island, outside call in two, one called A Dalan Water Villas (Adaaran Prestige Water Villas), super star, the other Hu called Mead rushed Layou Island Resort (Meedhupparu Raa Atoll Republic of Maldives), four-star,
Nike Shox Norge, actually on an island, but return two hotel group management. As well as in South Male Atoll South East region, called Anantara Resort (Anantara Resort Maldives) in the zone has four resort island situated on the beach in a large shallow water, joined with a wooden bridge. Traffic between the islands, close by boat, seaplane only as yet the. Longer depend on a small land-based aircraft navigation islands.
strongly recommended that you download a free Google Earth, to the Maldives to see, to carefully compare the different islands. Pick out five to ten islands, because it is not an island you want, you can get on the set. Cheap, shallow good hotel, or even make a reservation six months in advance. Find travel company to see price. Now talking about cost, we can not do being taken advantage of it! Though it is the Maldives islands, but very different islands, some islands, coral only 10 meters away from the beach 20 meters, and some islands there are several hundred meters, some among sight of the island you do not see the coral, are large areas of shallow white sand. This means that you can not see a lot of fish, not to mention the fish, and it can only see a dozen varieties of small, tall is small, mostly less than half a catty. Maldives hundreds of species of fish, how to look at a more than one hundred kinds of fish, right?
But Google Earth shows the picture deserving to camera time earlier, and some islands hotel with reality, such as WADOO Hotel (W °) Google is exhibited on the five plus two elegance house water water-house, the other is thirty among the left and right of the beach house, but will be back in early 2009 to clear all of the beach house, into green belts and service place. Water House is also removed in deeper (more than 1 meter lofty tide water depth) more than 60 newly built water house. Including four suites house wedding water, over 40 water-house, a dozen Japanese-style water house. But houses are not water directly into the water escalators, but Kenichi bridge ladder set up for snorkeling with some water. Basically, in 2009 and put into use a fashionable hotel on Google are not shown at present.
The figure is chosen two typical hotel pictures, the picture is a copy in the Columbia Valley on the map, showing the layout of the hotel, coral state. In the picture, the white is the sand, very pale blue is shallow water, a dingy dye bar is coral. Dark blue is deep. Strip material is alluvial brown coral, no ornamental value. Columbia Valley map using the measurement feature, you can narrate, beach width, no width of the water corals, coral, width, wave clash direction, and so forth. Ideal.
hotel in the Maldives, will systematize activities for tourists, usually a single event is posted on the notice boards in the hall, visitors will go to his room number, name, number of fill can. Must be noted that most of the activities by the number of requirements, not scrape together the number of activities will be repealed, but not every day activities. The hotels are not the same set of activities, but not outside the following number; evening boat tour, Male swim, take the notion of coral submarine, Doni Islands tour boat all day, half-day boats, personal boats off the seashore of snorkeling, Doni dolphin-watching boat, seaplane photography, uninhabited island personal boat diving double movable picnic packs, glass-bottom boat coral viewing, surfing, skateboarding, sliding bevel, windsurfing, fishing boat at nightfall, morning fishing, fish boats trolling Blue Flag . These are charges, price from ten dollars to thousands of dollars, because the hotel level are very different. Hotel also located a number of free activities such as table tennis, badminton, billiards, beach volleyball, library, swimming pool, etc., there are so few of each hotel is always free. Most people moving is the books, rows of books, magazines, the vast majority of visitors award, diplomatic languages are Affected by this, every time I go will also travel with two types of books to stay in the hotel. The most interesting is that some hotels did not evening around five will go to the beach to feed the fish, then, a lot of fish, particularly the one meter diameter rays, two, three-meter-long sharks, turtles and other fish will be to you eyes waiting for the waiter to feed, and even some hotels let visitors feed totally. Many of the hotel will have 24-hour bar, night bar, Disco, and a variety of SPA (one kind of Thai knead, of course, there are other standards of knead, the price from tens to hundreds of dollars). Some day the island will have large-screen projection DVDj introduction of local tourism, but also small shops selling journal travel merchandise, free or fee access computers, a large hotel there will be a doctor (very little) and commonly used drugs. Fee simple for visitors to provide treatment and trauma treatment. All hotels will must appraisal (PADI) scuba diving teacher, attempts visitors a variety of charges from low to high dive training. Even one to one educating sparring and so on. Then you can selectively participate in three, two. All hotel rooms are equipped with internal double bed, and some hotels have suites or home rooms, cheap room without bath only a shower, only a small portion of the hotel disposable toothbrush toothpaste, and some hotels have a television, a dozen local units and English units, a handful of four-channel CCTV Chinese hotel, a large beach towel and bath towel points, slippers and life jackets are not chapter of the hotel configuration.
say election Island, in addition to the status of coral islands, and room and board conditions, depends on the distance from the airport island, and some islands near from the airport, ten minutes to do a boat. And some islands I'll say. the airport, take the seaplane to have half an hour more than an hour! This is a great bearing on your itinerary!
in the Maldives, all of the tourist islands, are bought by major international hotel management group, hands-on early, the island environment, hands-night, good islands gone, or too far, construction costs high, not easy to attract tourists, it had by increasing the level or free hotel serves drinks to attract buyers. At present, the island's tourism companies recommend a good, most of the islands fall into this category. Like: Full Moon, Anantara Island, Taj magnetism Island, Kula Mati Island, Paradise Island, Platinum Island, Sun Island,
Nike Shox Kvinner, Laguna. . . Shangri-La as well just put into the island. So many islands are part of this five-star island, their common features are: a large room wide, hardware is good, broad restaurant, the food is very rich, some simply provide free beer, beverages, ice emulsion and so on. Free of charge every day or snorkeling the external islands, to complement its own deficiencies. Some are employed somewhere, some coral islands to improve water environment, but few in number. Islands for snorkeling is good, in Google Earth seen very clearly! She was more to know. In this map, although the real-time updates from time to time, and some islands to take pictures of clouds by the impact of the image is not very clear, but most of the islands can still see clearly; room general form, location, orientation, location away from the island , the direction of the tide, water depth, the depth of the junction of coral condition and location, detailed reconnaissance of Earth's Columbia Valley, on the itinerary of your plans and their benefit. Maldives is the high cost of land, for our visitors, where every minute is money to buy a good intend can save you a lot of money! You better leave a lasting memory! !
you need to know is not necessarily a good five-star island, the island may be more three-star value!
to the number of days to consider their own, as long as no problem of time and money, the hours are long is a better choice. You spent so much money, so long toss went to the location of beauty, not many until a few days, it is apologetic themselves. I consider the single-island tours 6-7 days is suitable, the two-island tour for 8-10 days is appropriate. Removed to, consumption of the behind on the road one day, you have abounding time to enjoy. Short time longer, the higher the price!
selection and ordering room
you pay for, which is perfect.
Maldives hotel room can be called as a common house, room or house. There are usually several from low to high chamber optional beach house divided: ordinary beach house, high-level beach house, garden room, pool room, presidential suite a few levels. Water house divided: Water Room, Superior Water room, swimming pool water villas, and several senior level. Specific appoint for the hotel full of tricks. But basically does not dissimilar materially.
the same class room, water room the price is much higher than the beach house, with the high price of almost two beach room. There are four a beach house, there are single blocks, there with a garden, as well as with swimming pool. Area of small, small fifty meters of thousands of square meters large, even water house, there are five to six square meters equipped with swim pool and yacht. The room toward the good, the coral a good position, sure to be expensive room occupied. Some of the rooms entirely equipped luxury, two-bathroom, wash with a French brand, supply a one-time items (toothbrush, toothpaste, razor, etc.),
Nike Shox R4, TV LCD, a telegraph network, some rooms only supply good quality wash and the first fluid bath, the other on a little. Some rooms have a life jacket (oh the level of quality points), and some do not even water house with a life jacket. Room standard power outlet is a three-core square pate type (the South Asian standards), most hotels will configure the conversion socket, but there are unworthy. Regardless of the price level of the room, each room will be free to bring two bottles of water, expensive rooms may be France's Evian, the room was cheaper than the desalination of water. Good room to go out ten meters is the sea, the water ten meters would see the coral, the difference is you have to swim out a few hundred meters, can not see the coral. It depends on the location of the hotel. But you know, your room is definitely the best place on the island.
these you must do your homework, or travel company to comprehend clearly, do not to sent money, and then want to change the order effect is very difficult.
Water Housing benefit is that the vast bulk of water house with hoist, very convenient by the stepladder into the water. The night lighting around the room according to the water to preoccupy fish. Generally, the position of housing are better, or it can prevaricate smooth roof watch the sunrise, sundown, or from the coral very close (not near to some coral islands, do not live in a house of water). Room equipment better than the shore house. Disadvantage is that the tide sound, people with insomnia do not live, so repose well. For the first time to the Maldives, you can choose water or water house house, beach house of a few days. If you stay at the beach backward the house absences to join money to upgrade to the water room to do transient housing, at all times the hotel availability, can be sorted, but relegation from the house the water will not refund to you.
we look at food in the Maldives, almost all have hotel cafeterias are detached towards the tastes of Thai curry. Mainly to Western strike, there are very few hotels have some lunch, but the savor is not correct. Sub-standard reservation BB (only breakfast), HB (Breakfast and banquet), FB (including meals). Breakfast is routinely 7.30-9.30, a variety of fruit juices, bread, dessert, fruit, vegetables, etc., the more profuse the higher the class the hotel, even the three-star hotel, breakfast than the mainland more than five-star hotel to be wealthy, and Free coffee. Guests and drink some water fare, usually 1-liter bottle of ore water or Coke 3-5 dollars a liter of beer 5-8 dollars. Can afford most varieties of wine, and some hotels in personalty of thousands. Lunch is usually 12.00-14.00, maximum hotels do not beverage, breakfast entree increases on the root of a grilled fish, chicken, etc., depending on the hotel class one set lunch U.S. $ 25-100 / human. 7.30 is generally straight start supper final guests to leave, the most profuse, based on the brunch and more food to dine. So every week there are one or two days of night grill dinner and nightfall, when the potentate crab, prawns, etc. are possible to supply. Dinner single set 50-200 / human U.S. dollars. Also most hotels have bars. Reminded that there are hotels are ordering three meals a day (including meals contained), the All meals are freshly arranged, but far less than the strike variety, whether your English is not very good, such a good hotel or not chosen, because the South eastern sub-type of Western people's savor, do not dine vegetables on a insolent, folk could not stand to throw a can. Another absence is to do a aggregate time of a meal at least 2 hours. It is a waste!
different due to local eating habits, people not to eat Western food issues the first two days, after the necessary annoyance. So every time I go to must bring some instant noodles and instant rice or porridge, cooked food, pickles and other snacks, to improve taste. Feeling left when they brought in to feed the fish. Even in a restaurant to eat, I will a little pickle and barbecue sauce, table, where the grilled fish, roast beef, bake turkey really no flavor. Where favorite vegetables and fruits, fresh, tasteful. Note; All restaurants are not to wear bathing suits to enter.
general people go to horse-generation, I recommend that it is best to set HB (with breakfast and dinner), because in there, not from the very early morning, a rich breakfast is surely a long time to eat, eat Breakfast is not long before lunch, then distinct dinner, with most of the time during the day to eat in, it is kind of a waste. Themselves something to eat, that can save time to dive or participate in other activities (if the hotel charges to participate in activities such as sea activities like snorkeling, by the time the time time covers meals, with meals on board will cost have been included.) own little food can also improve the taste. Not adapted to the Western dinner can also be a free. If you go to three - four days, then will not necessarily catch up with the barbecue dinner. Besides not all of the island have this dinner. In general, the diving context, good food to be almost. Unless it is a luxury hotel. So you must make a choice of options. It should be noted that, once scheduled, can not be changed, do not eat subside, then there is all the reservations, all without the day you arrive early, lunch, free you from the hotel the day of the lunch and dinner. But if you sit in Male early morning seaplane transfer to the hotel, arriving ahead eight, you can enjoy breakfast and dinner, but regardless of your points away from the hotel, all day without lunch and dinner. Most people set the Maldives flights fly at night, so you need to consult several to leave the hotel and the hotel, the hotel will usually get three hours in advance to ensure the guests to the airport. If you want to go to Male 'play before you can leave early consultation. But anyway, you need to be decided lunch and dinner. Expensive to eat in the hotel, eat at the airport just to eat, from the airport departure door entry between the jaws and a coffee shop, eat less, the price is high. Exit right hand side of the slope beneath a quick, cheap, more varieties can be a la carte, a choice tray of a meal plus two drinks was only five dollars you can eat is full.
reservation wind tickets and the islands
Some travel companies offer hotel plus ticket packages, such as Ctrip, lines show travel commune, peace tour, Beijing CYTS, CITS Group, South Lake , these agents generally offer restricted choices. There are only hotel does not offer tickets, such as dig treasure online jewelry beauty, she is the Maldives travel agent in China, where you can aggrandize her island (about 80) to choose from, prices are relatively cheap, But the tickets to your own set. Air ticket booking is very difficult, if your time is very firm, even the off-season, at least one month in advance you make reservations. Well at the outset the island two or three months is necessary reservations. There are a large comprehensive international business professional's agents, such as Taobao Yan Yun Ting Maldives plus tickets to provide such services provided by a large room for consultations, choice is also large.
you have to know the flight time to arrange your trip. General to the Maldives, there are four routes:
1. Take flight in Singapore, the Singapore part should be the airport transit. Beijing, case in point: Beijing more than 4,000 kilometers away from Singapore, no time difference, three airlines seven flights, the flight time to process about 6.5 hours. Male more than 3400 kilometers away from Singapore, three hours time difference, an airline four flights, to process flight time of four hours. Return plus 3 hours. Lower prices. If you do not have a visa but stayed more than five hours, you can enjoy two hours of the Free Singapore Tour (including time to complete the formalities).
2. Flights by Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Airport transfer. Kuala Lumpur, more than 3800 kilometers away from Beijing, no time difference, three airlines three flights, flight time to process about 6.5 hours. Male over 3100 km away from Kuala Lumpur, the time difference 3 hours, a four flights airline, flight time 4 hours to process the return trip plus 3 hours. Lower prices.
3. By Sri Lanka flights, stopover in Bangkok (stop 1 hour, leave the aircraft) Colombo transit, Beijing 4,700 kilometers away from Colombo, the time difference 2 hours to drive almost 7 hours flying period, stopping because 1 hour. Male, over 770 km away from Colombo, the period distinction 1 hour, 1 4 flights airlines to process flight time 1 hour. Low amounts. The shortest transit time. Transit time than tense.
4. By Emirates, the Dubai transit. Beijing to Dubai straight-line distance 5,000 kilometers, the time difference 4 hours, four six flights airline, flight time to process about 7.5 hours. Dubai, more than 3,000 km away from Male, 1 hour time difference, a 2 airline flights, flight time 4 hours to process. The longest transit time of inexpensive flights, the longest flight is generally more than 12 hours. Short transit time, ticket prices are too high.
5. Hong Kong flights to several airport transfer to the upon.
Note the time difference is not really an increase of flight time.
08 years, every Saturday a group of Eastern Airlines non-stop flights to Male (Male secondary school in Qatar, non-stop), I do not know why the canceled. At the same time there is a large domestic airlines in the domestic tourist season also offers charter flights Maldives. Beijing direct flights to Male 8 hours. However, such a release at a later flight, so you know when these flights, the island has long gone good, choice is too small. Especially the high ticket prices. But in September 2010 after the Guangzhou South Lake CITS Male fire non-stop flights, fares are not high. We can check.
specific flight date and time to consult your company to the ticket.
to note that most of the tourism company to arrange for tickets, when you go to the Male airport, mostly after ten pm local time, together with security and customs clearance, then when you contact the staff on the ground , is close to naught local time, eleven or even a. If you set too close to the island, speed boat will take you to the hotel, but also considered the day Oh to live. If you set the seaplane to the hotel, then you have to wait until six the afterward morning before boarding. In general, you this book, travel agents in Male Zhuyi Ye will recommend you, wake early the afterward day flying boat water ride to the airport. Generally charge 800 yuan / person, self-catering. In fact, this usage is more frustrating people! Waiting for you to stay, a rapid two points, five points up front we should rush to the port to take the ferry to the airport take the seaplane. To as few people take turns to melodrama poker or take a sleep (note mosquito Oh) for a while, although not sleep, that save vigor than to Male. Note that the Maldives is the rigid implementation of the international hotel standard hotel, two in the afternoon to stay, noon check-out, unless you go to the hotel when you book the room is empty, or you can wait until two o'clock, in order to enter room.
reminded by the impact of H1N1, all airports are equipped with temperature observation, if you have a fever, do not travel. To avoid being forcibly hospitalized. 2010 Spring Festival after most of the temperature observation equipment was canceled.
Maldives All hotels are full disbursement for the use of booking. You make the booking and disbursement is completed, your order confirmation will wait patiently, and only received confirmation itinerary, your booking to be valid. The order takes efficacy, if you have any problem, even flight delays, by the time is not responsible for the hotel will not alteration your order will not refundable.
If you are a peregrination company, one poll by a large all-inclusive book will retention a lot of trouble. Even the flight cancellation, in most cases you will receive a full reimburse. I have the time in such positions encountered on Ctrip, a full refund.
If you are a ticket, book hotel apart, you must make hotel and air ticket booking, the time to main, especially in tourist season, not the hotel you paid the money, but can not buy tickets, then When you're in big trouble. I encountered such a situation, an 11 tourist season to the Maldives, months in advance to book hotels, order confirmation and a half months before of schedule paid the money as a outcome, a friend's passport is a problem, delayed two weeks before start booking tickets, said nothing that there were no tickets, and a total of four round-trip flights from Male to Colombo in which the return flight did not vote it! Contact the major ticket service, not to advert discounts, full price tickets are gone, that is, not for other airlines ticket (see the Maldives tourism hot to what extent). No alternative but to set an early morning flight, this is a late evening at eight to eleven aircraft Male airport to fly to Colombo, turned into a back nine of the aircraft, the airport in Colombo spent more than ten hours (to is to buy a few cheap sapphire). The ten hours on the islands in the Maldives should enjoy. Lessons can be described as deep Oh! In early December of this year, as a friend scheduled for 2010 Spring Festival, scheduled three months in advance, tickets are so hard to get!
consideration! Only round-trip airline flights a plane ticket only discounts. At the same time you also facilitate a lot of luggage, not to take the time half-way baggage transfer, direct access to the Maldives, the return is the same, Male checked directly in the servant hangar baggage demand.
when you booked a ticket, the ticket agent a duplicate sent to the hotel, they are good arrangements for migrate machine.
pack
when you are ahead of this implemented, then you can start to pack the peace of mind to prepare. What to bring Maldives? Many people have queried this answer. In fact, the differ interests of each person with someone differ, I will go to the Maldives with my last entities listed for your reference to it.
camera and notebook with a 50 liters elbows back all valuables (cameras, etc.), a small snack.
pockets a put money and passport, hotel reservation, a waterproof Olympus card machine
450X600X300 a large carton ; setup all other items
snorkeling with: fins, disguise, snorkel (collectively, snorkeling Sambo). Swimming trunks (clothing), face mask anti-fog surrogate, 50 + sunscreen
full-frame DSLR-5DII and assisting the lens + flash, eight catch fish stand. Spare battery, memories card
10-meter diving camera - Olympus (μ1030SW), spare battery, card
40-meter diving camera - Panasonic camera (TZ3) plus Waterproof Case, spare battery , card
3-meter diving camera - Sanyo (WH-1), spare battery, card
with these devices, I had tens of thousands of filming in the Maldives Article JEKC fish, thousands of ornamental fish, two, three-meter-long shark, turtle, eel, and a variety of ornamental fish, live coral, and a mingle of hard coral. Leaving thousands of photos and dozens of hours of movie.
laptop a
MP4 to cope with a long flight and then waiting to check their own snorkeling camera quality.
The following items are in accordance with a person I was with the. May be increased to more than
jackets two beauteous Oh of way, the photo shoot was seductive ah.
a long wrap on the aircraft will not only cold, that is, to eat dinner in the hotel, the best also wear, anti-mosquito Oh!
slippers can be worn in addition to aircraft, and some hotels do not provide.
free toiletries and some islands, some islands do not cater.
snorkeling when five pairs of socks to wear socks and then must wear flippers.
snorkeling and some island treasures free, good quality, but still use their own good, at least health.
life jacket you will wear it swimming, sea safety is first! Note that the best to purchase the buckle to constrict the hoop as well, in an easily controlled
system of the body, around $ Taobao sell them one. Tether the worst.
small fast wok cooking instant noodles (one can cook 2 bags), porridge, boiling water (some hotels provide only coffee pot electric kettle Oh no )
value of instant noodles, which could be equipped with double the number of missing meals, feed the fish while snorkeling in excess can attract a large number of fish at your side.
snack seeds, peanuts, jelly, coffee (most hotels have free Nestle coffee, but not to my taste), smokes,
also with a sauce of meat, chicken wing sauce, barbecue sauce and so on.
few bottles of Coke bottle in accordance with one day to prepare, since snorkeling and drinking water is inevitable, with Coke mouth rinse can speedily eliminate in seawater taste
Road, in more than 30 degrees the sun, drink iced Coke, really good solace. Money can not bring 300 ml bottle of Coke to
three U.S. oh.
500 ml bottle of water if the snorkel, even now you are a practiced, but also can not drink water to lest the need to wash with fresh water regularly. Therefore, the supply of certain hotel
insufficient, Coke brought the circumstance, or not to bring, water heating drink, I tried, no hotel water smell of desalinated water. Some hotels
should be bottled water is actually desalinated water. medicine and mosquito offensive
room without water mosquitoes, beach house must have mosquitoes, the restaurant is open must have.
disease from pill use what they know they have, but cold medicine, causes diarrhea medicine is a necessary belt, eye drops can bring Well, snorkeling, sometimes the eyes into the sea is very
uncomfortable. Band-Aid. Sunscreen than without, although I have said to take 50 +, but 30 + is in fact
the same with the 30 + sunscreen is better than 50 + only 3-5% difference.
flashlight in addition to dinner with the evening Zhuapang Xie was full of fun. Oh, to prevent the crab pinch. However, without this it does not stuff.
boat fishing rod with little contingency I'll take the time, but good fun oh! Sharks, eels have been fishing on. Catch several kilograms heavier than do students at Tsing Yi
fish taste better than lobster!
other fruit knives, identify scissors, spoon, chopsticks, pens, plug the power adapter socket row and so on. Especially the power conversion socket, most of the hotel
will give you a ready, but you certainly with more than enough electrical . Own look with it.
Note: Aircraft Free boating 20KG. Super 1KG no problem, the more we should pay.
final warning
are culprits in any place, paradise is not paradise. If you pay attention to take good attention of your luggage, lost an important item, what heaven may not be good, so be sure to pay attention to your luggage when you are most weary, weary, when the most should pay more attention! If likely, try to be all of your pictures and video to be a backup, and in different places, because you will leave lasting memories! Once the accident, rue may be too late and all the valuables can not be checked because of the time via security, baggage valuables tell people good things! Is almost certainly more than lost!
are you prepared? Start it. Enjoy your holidays!
about dozens of islands pictures, please go to my room album outlook, there are many poor quality images as artwork, I did not go out. Note that I added to gather information on all aspects, and not necessarily precise. Please excuse me.
caution you, I was snorkeling enthusiasts from the outlook of the islands ashore the evaluation of good and bad, this evaluation with a certain prejudice. Objectively speaking, entire the islands of Maldives will be brought to the island like the sea of tourists like surprises!
the last to say a; this all from my private experience, summed up after the accumulation for your reference. Absolutely no artificial elements mixed in it. If there is difference between the actual situation may be out of each eye, due to different interpretation, it could be wrong I remember correctly. Hope you let me know. If there are criticisms, please contact me.
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