Diva Best Island In Maldives



Diva Maldives located at Dhidhoofinolhu is one among the biggest islands within the Maldives, 1.8 km long and two hundred m across. it's a true haven of tranquility, with lush tropical vegetation running alongside four km of white sandy beaches. The island is surrounded by a powerful, sheltered lagoon, made in marine life, with the wonderful spectacle of rays and vibrant tropical fish swimming around.

In the heart of this lovely setting, Naïade has added a brand new jewel in its crown, Diva Maldives. it's a masterpiece, combining the natural great thing about Maldives and a tropical outside variety of life, near nature, with refined luxury and magnificence.

Suites And Villas

No Of Rooms forty eight

•Surrounded by lush, tropical plants, the Junior suites look out to ocean and have access to the beach on either side, as they're on the narrowest purpose of the island. every Junior suite includes a bedroom, a bathroom, a terrace with an out of doors shower. bogs have a shower and separate shower, in addition as separated bathroom.

•Eighteen inter connecting Junior Suites creating a complete of thirty six suites (18 rooms with a pair of twin beds and 18 rooms with double beds)

•Junior suite will accommodate a most of two Adults + one kid or one Baby

•Suite size: 65m2

Infinity Natural Spa

Diva Maldives may be a haven of peace and well-being and also the Spa itself has been given special attention, with massages that are really out of this world! Nestling amongst lush, inexperienced vegetation, this centre of well-being has three sections, one for men, one for ladies and one for each. The Spa options three saunas, 3 hammams, a pair of ice rooms, a pair of heated pools, one cold pool, 1 hot tub, three outside showers and three relaxation gardens.

The common space includes a boutique and an area for manicure and pedicure treatments (9.00 a.m. – 9.00 p.m.)

•4 over water Treatment rooms
•11 Garden Treatment rooms

All treatment areas have non-public tub room facilities, indoor and outside showers.

Garden treatment rooms

Each of the eleven garden treatment rooms includes a terrace and personal garden with outside shower... there's a shower and separated {toilet|rest area|bathroom} in every room.

Water treatment rooms

Through glass within the floor, guests will watch the fish swimming around within the lagoon beneath them throughout their massages

1 Manicure and Pedicure salon

Separate sections, for girls and gents that every include:

Sauna, Steam room, Cold room, Plunge pool, Relaxation deck, Indoor and outside, showers, Changing area

Special Features In Diva Maldives:

4km sandy beach, a relaxed and safe turquoise lagoon, the simplest sites for diving in Maldives, A 5-star PADI diving centre managed by Eurodivers, a pair of Infinity pools, vi restaurants and vi bars, A spa with fifteen double treatment rooms, with four suspended over the water, 24-hour area service

POV: iPhone's Google Translate As A Fixer?


I recently jumped ship from Blackberry to iPhone, and was glad to see how its various photography apps such as Instagram and Hipstamatic were ice-breakers during my trip to Cambodia. Even elderly and normally reserved Buddhist monks were excited to choose the filters to apply on the pictures I took of them with the device.

A few days ago, I downloaded Google Translate, a free iPhone app, and realized it would very useful whilst photographing in a country where I needed an interpreter. I am not suggesting it'd replace a fixer or an interpreter, but it will certainly help out in situations where I am either on my own or when my fixer is unavailable or helping someone else.

For instance, if I'm in India and require assistance in asking permission from people to take their picture while my fixer is elsewhere, I'd rely on the app to provide me with a reasonable translation (both in writing and spoken). In the picture above, you'll see I typed "Can I take your picture?" which is translated as "Maiṁ apanī tasvīra lē sakatē haiṁ" in Hindi. The cool thing is that the app can also 'speak' the translation.

I don't know if this is the precise grammatical form (I'm sure my friends in India will eventually let me know), but I know the word tasvīra is to photograph...so I'm sure that I'd get across with that phrase much more easily than repeating "tasveer tikke?" like a parrot as I normally do.

I've tried the same phrase with the three languages I know well...French and Spanish (it's spot on), and with Arabic (it's very close). So I'm quite sure it'll do well in the available languages, especially if the phrases are simple...such as "Stand here"..."Relax"..."Be natural",  "Where's the bathroom?", etc.

All I need to do before traveling to India (as an example) is to make a list of the common phrases I could need....enter these in Google Translate and save the translations. Whenever needed, I'll just need to access my translation history and voila!

No, it'll never replace a fixer or interpreter...but in a pinch, it'll be very helpful...and would be an added icebreaker.

I know...the picture of my iPhone above is crap. I'm too lazy to do a proper lighting set up.

POV: TIME's Lightbox 365 Photographs

Photo © Amr Abdallah Dalsh/ (Reuters)

LightBox, the blog by TIME’s photo department, is one of my daily photography pilgrimage stops, and it ought to be yours as well. It has just compiled a 2011 yearbook, picking a photo for each day of the year.

Since I am always pleasantly surprised when I particularly like a photograph from various news sources and it subsequently wins an award of some sort, I will try my luck with the 365 photographs picked by the TIME photo editors. I have to say it was a tough call as the editors have done a really terrific job in choosing these photographs.

Nevertheless, out of these 365 photographs, I chose 5 that most appealed to me both from an aesthetic standpoint, and for the subject matter they cover.

My first choice is the November 22 photograph (shown above) of an Egyptian protester tossing a tear gas canister, which had been thrown by the riot police, during clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo. The photograph is by Amr Abdallah Dalsh (Reuters). In my view, this photograph ought to garner many photojournalism awards.

Photo © Moises Saman-All Rights Reserved
My second choice is this magnificent image of September 9 by photographer Moises Saman of Libyan Eyadea Elspaie visiting the gravesite of his son, Tareq Elspaie, who was killed by Gaddafi loyalists in August. The sorrowful posture of this father, under a dramatic sky, is just a Biblical scene.

Photo © Abir Sultan-EPA-All Rights Reserved
My third choice is the August 17 'penumbra' photograph by Abir Sultan-EPA of a Hasidic community member praying in a cave of an old Arab house in Lifta (Jerusalem), Israel. The man's stance in the darkness, and the shaft of light on the man's tallit or prayer shawl, may perhaps be interpreted in different ways, depending on one's political agenda. For me, its just a great picture.

Photo © Matt Dunham/AP-All Rights Reserved
My fourth choice is the October 19 photograph by Matt Dunham—AP of an Irish traveler in front of a burning barricade during evictions at the Dale Farm travelers site, near Basildon England, 30 miles east of London. This was a huge story in the United Kingdom, and being in London at the time, I recall that it was wall-to wall coverage of this rather localized issue. Here again, a very well composed Biblical scene. I also nod my head at the fact that the upper right hand corner was left untouched...even with what appears to be an electrical or telephone cable.

Photo © Spencer Platt-Getty- All Rights Reserved

My fifth choice is the September 30 photograph of the OWS movement by Spencer Platt (Getty Images). The photograph is of a Wall Street protester from upstate New York, holding up a sign in New York City. I've seen many of the OWS photographs, and this one in particular resonated with me...perhaps because the protestor is masked by the poster? It was a faceless movement after all.

There they are...my five choices. Will any of these go on and win awards? We'll see.

A 2012 Welcome

Photo © Amit Dave/Reuters- All Rights Reserved
Rather than featuring a photograph of fireworks or of New York City's Times Square crowds, I thought this one of an Ahmedabad resident having his beard trimmed to welcome the new year is more interesting.


It's one of the photographs featured by The Guardian newspaper in it's How the world prepares for New Year's Eve - in pictures.

My very best wishes for a wonderful 2012 to this blog's readers, friends, followers and supporters.