MALDIVES:

  Archipelago formed by 1,192 islands, grouped in 26 distributed coralline atolls in one borders South Sea islander of 754 km in length and 118 of width in the heat of I indicate to 372 miles to the SW of the India, of which only 202 are inhabited and other 76 are destined exclusively to tourist center.

  No of the islands excels more than 3 meters over the level of the sea nor has a length superior to 8 km. Some are only very small coralline sand banks in which a few palms grow.

  The atolls are reefs of chorale with annular form in whose interior is a warm and calmed water lagoon with a depth between the 30 and the 80 M.s that constitute an ecosystem with enormous diversity. Generally this lagoon communicates with the sea abierto by deep channels.

  The population of Maldives considered in approximately 360,000 inhabitants, is based mainly in the capital, Male and in the towns of fishermen moved away of the tourist routes. Their inhabitants conserve characteristics of the different ethnic groups who populated their islands: European Indians, Arabs, Central Africans and.

  To explore the reefs surround that them from a sailboat allows to discover hundreds of places in which the unique tracks which we will see in the sand will be ours. The coralline barriers represent, as much for the expert divers, like for whom they practice snorkel a true submerged paradise.

  If the zone is not known, is advisable to sail to go accompanied by an expert landlord of the zone or in its defect, to inquire well about the banks into sand, the currents and reefs.

  Denominated the Island Resort located in atolls of Male and Ari occupies a desert island normally. The companies of Charter usually include them like stages of navigation, enjoying all advantages, from the restaurants to the sport facilities. You can find these services from 30,000 approximately €.

 PRACTICAL DATA

• CUSTOMS: All the luggage, as much the arrival as when coming out is put under control. It is prohibited to introduce products derived from the pig, spirits, religious images and erotic or pornographic material. The export of objects made with turtleback is prohibited, as well as the objects of black chorale without elaborating.
• The CLIMATE is typically tropical with warm temperatures between 29 and 31 ºC throughout the year. There are two different stations, the drought of November to April and the humid one of May to October with the typical monsoons that provide more wind as well as rain during the months of June and July.
• DOCUMENTATION: passport with minimum validity of a month, entrance visa that is obtained to the arrival
• CLOTHING: Light natural weave clothes and informal. If moved away towns of the tourist circuit visit themselves, the women must take to pareos or long skirts that cover until the knee and t-shirts that maintain places setting the shoulders. Recommendable, sun glasses, some article to cover the head and solar lotion with a high index with protection
• GASTRONOMY: Tropical rice, fish and fruits. The meat and the chicken are reserved for space occasions. The national drink is raa, ponche sweet obtained of the palms
• HEALTH: vaccines are not required, but precautions with the water must be taken that interferes that it would have to be bottled