Like the west monsoon has Hanifaru Bay with its dozens of mantarays, the east monsoon has Fotteyo Kandu. Fotteyo (in the Felidhoo Atoll) is seen as one of the 5 best divesites in the world.

Besides grey reef sharks, white tip reef sharks, jacks and tuna you can find giant groups of snappers and the whole canal entrance is overgrown with beautiful yellow softcoral. In addition there are also hammerheads to be seen in the early morning.

We will be going to Fotteyo during all our March and April 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.