Offering an extreme Maldives experience on spending costs, Dharavandho is a populated island of Baa Atoll with top notch jumping destinations where the spotless waters of 'Hanifaru Bay' and 'Dharavandhoo Thila' are secured by law in the Maldives. 


Just 20 minutes by homegrown departure from Male air terminal, the wonderful Dharavandhoo lies in the core of the solitary UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in the Maldives, and is obviously situated to encounter the best that this tropical heaven has to bring to the table. An astonishing reasonable convenience, great swimming with manta beams and whale sharks, jumping, shining white sea shores and valid island encounters join to make your visit here really life-changing. Colorful, disconnected and enticing, Dharavandhoo is one of the last magnificent spots where you can truly escape from everything. 


A captivating occasion in Dharavandhoo will outperform every one of your assumptions; the primary way of thinking in this piece of the Maldives is to not miss the energizing water experiences wich consistently will be loaded up with new certain impressions. Result? An extraordinary excursion and recollections that will stay with you until the end of time.

Kiha Beach, Dharavandhoo

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The Island

The Island

With high marine biodiversity, UNESCO's just biosphere save in the Maldives, Baa Atoll is home to an assortment of marine life and incredibly submerged world. The Baa's Atoll is a primary fascination is Hanifaru Bay, known as the producing ground for dim reef sharks and stingray beams situated in a 5 min by boat from Dharavandhoo. Hanifaru Bay is additionally one of the not many spots in the planet where whale sharks come for mating. Nonetheless, the best prominence of Hanifaru was brought by strange, exquisite, curious and beguiling Manta Rays (Manta alfredi), whose focus in the periods of microscopic fish can reach up to 200 creatures. The fantastic biodiversity inside this inlet is because of the immense mass of microscopic fish that collects there among May and November. 


With rich vegetation and a wide white sandy sea shore, Dharavandhoo Island is 1330x500 meters, is home to an in excess of 800 spirits that forms its economy fundamentally by the travel industry and fishing. In 2012, the island opened an air terminal (DRV) serving homegrown trips of Maldive and FlyMy aircrafts working from Male and other Maldives' air terminals. Dharavandhoo has a clinical focus, a travel service, 2 jump communities, in excess of 7 supermarkets, trinket shops, a kindergarten, two football fields, two mosques and a marina. The force station gives energy every minute of every day. Numerous local people communicate in English, a large portion of them additionally communicate in different dialects. 


Notwithstanding the satellite TV or motobikes, there is next to no that recognizes this island from the well established Maldives. Dharavandhoo is a drowsy town. At the tallness of the day, the islanders stow away from the sun, and at night the roads of the town wake up. When all is said in done, local people are neighborly, agreeable and quiet individuals. Life stops at 9 pm, however awakens at sunrise with a call to supplication. 


Sandy streets structure a net of roads with beautiful cottages and unobtrusive houses. Made of coral blocks, these beautiful bungalows show the island's nearby connection with the sea. Their rich nurseries burst from banana and bread trees, and enthusiasm natural product plants creep up the dividers. In little gardens, verdant vegetables and brilliant peppers are developed, and gigantic palm trees give the pined for shadow and extinguish thirst. The northern piece of Dharavandhoo has still unique coconut palm woodland. You can investigate the island by walking or by bicycle.

The Beach

The Beach

Regardless of the way that along the island's southern side stretches Dharavandhoo Airport's runway the airplane don't destroy the quiet environment of the island. Traveler two-piece sea shore, planned solely for sightseers is at the northwestern piece of the island, and this is the place where you can swim, sunbathe and play. Turquoise gem waters, white delicate sand and numerous obscure trees make the ideal vibe for a dazzling sea shore insight. Not a long way from the shore is a house reef with a bountiful marine life ideal for swimming. Hope to see schools of fish, beams, turtles and reef sharks. 


A portion of Baa's atoll most celebrated nearby islands are situated around Dharavandhoo: Thulhaadhoo known for its stoneware abilities; Eydhafushi is the atoll's capital and the focal point of the weaving aces, a run of the mill highly contrasting Maldivian pareo; on Kudarikilu island there is a historical center where the entire history of Maldives is gathered.

Scuba Diving

Scuba Diving

The Maldives is maybe the most celebrated jumping objective on the planet. Energizing jump locales, in short ride from extravagance convenience and fantastic assistance make Maldives' plunge resorts among the most top-end on the planet. The one of a kind stunner of the submerged world is doubly esteemed by jumpers around the globe because of high submerged perceivability (some of the time even at a profundity of 50 meters), innumerable types of extraordinary marine life and warm waters (25 to 30 degrees Celsius) lasting through the year. 


Concerning marine life, there is no uncertainty that Baa Atoll is uncommon. At the point when the area was proclaimed a biosphere save in 2011, the UN clarified that it is a "harbor of around the world critical biodiversity in various reefs and exhibits a long history of human communication with the climate." Once you investigate blue waters, you will comprehend what those words mean. Reefs are overflowing with a dynamic life. Dharavandhoo's home reef is home to a manta beam's cleaning station where enormous groups of monsters assemble to permit the jaws to peck their skin. 


Coral reefs in the biosphere hold keep a high variety of marine vegetation, including around 250 sorts of corals (hard and delicate coral), 1200 types of fish, ocean turtles, beams, whale sharks and seabirds. 


The island has two jumping habitats PADI: Blue-World-Dharavandhoo and Dharavandhoo Divers. Both offer scuba plunging courses from Discover Scuba Diving to Rescue Diver, and fun jumps on in excess of 30 jump destinations around Baa atoll. The menu covers all the requirements and the levels from amateurs to the jump ace. The most famous jump locales are: Dharavandhoo Thila, Aidhoo Thila, Nelivaru Haa, Milaidhoo, Maavaru Caves, Anga Faru and numerous others. 


Costs: One jump from $ 62. Late evening plunging + $ 10 to the toll, nitrox + $ 5.

Best Things to DO

Best Things to DO

Dharavandhoo is the ideal spending choice to get the flavor of legitimate Maldives ... the best occasion ever! Cordiality is the fundamental element of neighborhood individuals who live and work here. This isn't an extravagance resort, Dharavandhoo is an awesome objective for voyagers who are keen on investigating the nearby Maldives culture. 


During your visit on the island, anticipate that a great deal should do and see: jumping, house reef swimming, watching dolphins, fishing, excursions to 5-star resorts close to Dharavandhoo (Kihaad Maldives, Royal Island Resort and Dusit Thani), learning society creates, degustation the customary Maldivian food, and obviously, swimming with manta beams! Manta is a truly wonderful! 


Swimming on Dharavandhoo is in every case loaded with fun shocks. You don't need to be a jumper to find the exceptional and extraordinarily energetic marine existence of Hanifaru cove. Outing to the customary Maldives dhoni boat for swimming with whale sharks! Whale sharks are delicate and quiet monsters, and very inquisitive. On the off chance that they don't feel undermined, sharks frequently approach boats. Among June and November, this is the best spot for swimming with whale sharks in Baa Atoll.

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