Also this autumn we organise our safaris to Hanifaru Bay, thé hotspot for mantarays and whalesharks in the Maldives (and the world).

Hanifaru Bay is a protected marine are in the Baa Atol where in the west monsoon hundreds of mantarays and dozens of whalesharks gather to feast on the plankton which is pushed in the bay by the monsoon. Everybody knows the shots National Geographic made, below our own movie we made in 2010. If the weather allows it we go to Hanifaru Bay during all our autumn trips.

The Maldives is an archipelago consisting of 1190 coral islands grouped into 26 atolls in the Indian Ocean southwest of India. They cover a surface of 90,000 square kilometres and the islands lie scattered over a length of 820 kilometres. The total land area is only 298 km² of which the largest island covers 5 km². About 200 islands are inhabited and on another 88 islands touristresorts have been established.

The Maldives belong to the top 3 of most beautiful dive destinations in the world with more than 3,000,000 dives every year.

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The True Maldives is a Dutch company that is engaged in organizing adventurous (low budget) diving safaris in the Maldives with an emphasis on large marine animals.

We ourselves are very entausiastic about diving and try to get the best out of the Maldives on every dive. Check out our guestbook to see how other guests experience our safaris.

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Our group on facebook with even more information about our safaris which we also try to keep updated during our safaris.