Do and don't in the Maldives

If anything I can help, I was living in Maldives for last 6 years, and I been traveling around more than 100 islands already.

Best things to do in maldives is

Diving
Surfing
Snorkeling
fishing
photography

Do Not

its 100% muslim country so you cant drink alcohol on island where maldivians live u can have it on hotels but not in city without special permit, also you cant bring them from airport.
never get mixed up with gangsters so call "Parteys" on streets , anyway maldives is very safe place compare to other.

Are there any Indian schools?How is the life there?

Hello Rose,

first at all excuse me for my poor engish, I have the posibility to work in Maldives in a near future and i want to know about the life style in maldives, My English level is not very well but i believe that my cherooke english is not too bad, I was born in a country where the people speak Spanish... Actually I am living in Spain... Rose is very difficult to live in Maldives???

Well, I hate to do this but when I arrived in Maldives to teach English as a second language I had no clue the hell I would endure. I had read blog after blog about the place and tried to find a reason not to go but I couldn't really find anything worth while.

As with any Asian country laws aren't really laws and rules are more of guidelines except when it comes to religion, of course. I was given an apartment to share with other teachers working at the Language Learning Centre (LLC). Where rats resided in my fridge and red ants in my bed. The entire school is a sham and I feel sorry for the poor girl that was hired after me because she had no one to warn her her experience was almost as bad as mine. I lost about $4000.00 CDN in total and was never paid a dime by the school. But that is not what I'm here to warn you about.

I was told about the 'conservative dress' and did so, followed all rules as to not offend anyone and was heart broken to find out that I as a young white female could not walk the streets of Male alone day or night. I would get cornered by horny men looking to get their rocks off by grabbing and fondling innocent passersby. I was constantly gawked at by men and treated lowly by the women. The disrespect from the general public was obscene.

From what I had understood Male was free of mosquito born illness and a very safe place, health wise but within my first week I contracted Dengue Fever and spent the remainder of my time in that godforsaken country in their hospitals. Who misdiagnosed and repeatedly neglected my general wellbeing a large number of times. I was told that the only hospital in Male 'ADK' does not accept health insurance.

Also within my first week I was attempting to take money out at an international ATM, the men in front of my in line had attempted to use the machine twice and when I went to try it took my card. Apparently their machines will eat bank cards on a third attempt after the machine has broken down and these men knew that and encouraged me to put my bank card in. I waited in lineups at the bank repeatedly and never got my bank card back.

Some might say it was a string of bad luck but just the amount of disrespect experienced on a day to day basis is enough for me to never ever want return to the vicinity of The Republic of Maldives. I may return to India again someday because it can be a lovely country.

As far as I am concerned the natural beauty Maldives is far overshadowed by the ugly hidden beneath.

Hi..
Yes....Maldives have now two International Schools...first one called Lala International School, which is located in another Island, called Hulmale', close to Male', just 10-15 mins. boat ride from Male'! But very recently, last Feb., there is another school, called Billabong International School in Male', which is opened by the Kangaroo Kids group, who also have few chain of schools in India...like in Mumbai!

Ofcourse, the education in the international schools is not very much to the internaltinal standards as such, but they are fast improving! The biggest problem is the space so the very core requirment to have international school is to have large land availability, where all the facilities can exist to the international standards!

Do you have any plan to relocate? Pls let me know!

Bye!
Romeo

sangeetapatra wrote:

Are there any Indian schools?How is the life there?