Sunday, June 29, 2014

From Male to Veligandu (North Ari Atoll), seaplane ride, Maldives

Photo 1: a small island in between Veligandu and Kuramanthi on a small ring of islands covered by North Ari Atoll (west of North Male Atoll).  
Photo 2/3: Veligandu resort - noticed the small island on the south which is on another view in Photo 4: this island acts as another docking bay for the sea plane if the sea current is too strong on the main island during summer monsoon season.
Photo 5/6: Centara Ras Fushi (the newest Centara resort, about 20 minute boat ride west of Male).
Photo 7: it's an industrial and also a place for garbage disposal.  Because of this garbage disposal, it's widely negatively commented by the guests of Centara Ras Fushi (as it's very close to this place).
Photo 8/9: Male Int'l Airport - built on and along the island Hulhumale.  It's named as one of the top ten most spectacular landings by the aviation industry.  There isn't any side way for the plane to get standby or taking on a taxi way.  So the plane needs to take a U-turn on either end of the runway to take off or after landing.

3 comments:

Stella said...

Your photos here look like those from National Geographic.

in the sea said...

Thanks, but these are the real scenes and any one can use their phones to take photos like this.

Stella said...

Not any one at least I cannot tkae good photos with phone.