Diving – general

Just steps from your villa, a pristine coral reef protects and embraces the ivory sands and emerald heart of Kandolhu.

A number of resident turtles live on this reef and are easily approached by divers and can be observed feeding, oblivious to your presence. Many other interesting creatures inhabit this reef and any dive on the house reef will typically provide you encounters with hawksbill turtles, white tip and black tip reef sharks, eagle rays, jacks and a myriad of colourful reef fish species.

Kandolhu house reef is the perfect location for your first diving experience, your check dive, refresher course or for experienced divers, unguided house reef diving with your favourite dive buddy.

Kandolhu enjoys a privileged central location in Ari atoll, the atoll that most divers agree still offers the best diving in the Maldives and hence some of the best in the world. World class dive sites surround us and you can discover legendary Protected Marine Areas such as Maaya Thila and Fishhead, stunning coral sites and manta points to the West and North, a celebrated wreck minutes away, and even hammerheads to the North East. From Kandolhu, you can dive with the spectacular and magnifi cent as well as the small and the curious. A better base for your diving adventures would be hard to find.

SPECIAL ADVENTURES

Full day dive safaris further afi eld, by dhoni or on our two mast 25m yacht Ari Explorer, to discover and investigate other spectacular sites.

Private yacht charter – high seas adventure sailing over the horizon for diving escapes off the island.

Dive three Protected Marine Areas in one day choose from Maaya Thila, Fishhead, Orimas Thila and Kari Beyru Thila.