Athuruga Island on Ari Atoll, Maldives Athuruga (also Athurugau) is an island resort in the Ari atoll of the Maldives. It is very small (130 by 110 metres), and very charming. Use the Thumbnail gallery below to get am impression. The pictures are sized so that they fit exactly on a 1024x768 screen. I don't think that there are smaller displays around these days. |
Male, the main city of the maldives. It covers one island | |
Male airport ist a neighbour island of male. It was necessery to extend the island artificially to make room for long distance jetliners | |
Athurugau island seen from the seaplane platform | |
Athuruga island with jetty | |
Athuruga with seaplane, seen from the jetty | |
The jetty seen from the hotel lounge | |
The hotel lounge | |
The center of the island. Sand covered walks connect the bungalows to the restaurant, bars, lobby, shops and activity center. Absolutely no shoes for two weeks, wonderfull... | |
The diving center | |
The beach bar seen from the diving center | |
Garden side of bungalow | |
Under the palm trees and mangroves at the beach in front of "our" bungalow | |
Another picture taken front of "our" bungalow at sunset | |
View from the veranda of "our" bungalow | |
And here IS the sunset | |
The beach just after sunset... | |
... and in the morning after breakfast | |
Black tip baby sharks hunting in the lagoon | |
Black tip baby shark in the lagoon | |
Baby sting ray in the lagoon |