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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Travel In Maldives



Blue ocean, clear white sands that make many people think about Beach, Island. Maldive or many people know as name Maldives or “the paradise on earth”, 99% of Maldives is all over with ocean and rich with nature. Maldives has 1190 islands include of this name but only 201 island that are inhabited and the history for this island goes back over three thousand years.






In 1960s A United Nations mission on development which visited the Maldive Islands did not recommend tourism, claiming that the islands were not suitable. Maldives first resort opened in February 1972 and the first group tourist visited Maldives Island and spent about 12 days in this country at Male’. Maldives today has more than 600,000 tourists each year from all over the world such as Europe, Asia, Africa, USA and from the middle East. The people in Maldives are friendly and they live a simple life.






Maldives is a good place to visit relax and enjoy water sport such as swimming, fishing, scuba diving, water-ski, windsurfing and watching the Shark, it’s activities that many tourists are interested to do when they visit Maldives.


Sharks of Maldives
Over 26 species of sharks can be found in Maldives Island but only 3 species of spotted sharks.


Whale Shark


Whale Shark is being rare and endangered and they are is a protected species in Maldives. Whale has dark gray skin and has distinctive light-yellow markings on skin and they are the biggest shark and the biggest fish.









Tiger Shark or Galeocerdo cuvier


Tiger Shark is the most dangerous of sharks or extremely dangerous, there skin can be typically range from blue to light green with white or light yellow underbelly.










Hammerhead Shark

Hammerhead Shark they are gray-brown and off-white belly. Head is indented at the center of the “hammer” which is almost rectangular in shape, they are in the warm and relatively warm water.





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