Hopping Island in the Maldives
The best islands in the Maldives I know we are approaching the Maldives when the passengers around me started moaning. "Oh my God!" The woman next to me said, "Lean down for a better view." Looking down, I see what that means. The seas are a bluish blue, small white sand islands are freely sprinkled in the waters below. Surrounding each island is a light turquoise, a color I have only seen in pictures. Suddenly, 22 hours of flight time seems worth the trip. It may take some time to reach Maldives. To find the country on a map, find the tip of the South Indian, then move your finger southwest in the Indian Ocean. See that string of dots? It is the Maldives, an archipelago consisting of 1,192 coral islands divided into 26 atolls. The country's 350,000 inhabitants live on only 192 islands. Maldivian passengers flew to the capital, Male. From there, most take a boat or cruise to their resort. Each resort in the Maldives has its own island. This means that each resor