Racing through paradise
Deccan ChronicleManta Air, the resort’s airline, flies from Bengaluru to Kudahuvadhoo in an ATR-72, the biggest plane that can land on a 1.8 km runway jutting into the sea from an island barely a kilometre long. A Kandima staffer greeted us like long-lost cousins, our luggage beat us to the room before we could say “jetlag,” and a speedboat whisked us away. But after offensive remarks about India by Maldivian ministers on social media in 2024, the numbers plunged to 130,805, pushing India from 1st to 6th place among the island nation’s key markets. But let’s be real: those hauntingly beautiful white sand beaches, unlike common quartz ones, are formed from coral remains and are not “pristine” by accident. Nightly theme parties keep things lively—some by the pool, some glow-in-the-dark.The dolphin cruises offer a quiet kind of magic, but the real surprise to us was the flying fish!
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