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The Maldives are the ideal archipelago for a sea safari and Dhoni Stella are the perfect yachts for a private cruise focused on scuba diving or snorkeling. Sharks, mantas, eagle rays, barracudas, colorful soft corals, sea fans and acroporas: the Maldives offer all of this. Roll your mouse over the white spots on the map below to discover all the Marine and Natural reserves of the archipelago, including the best diving sites, and we would suggest you the best itineraries to visit them. Or you can plan your own cruise with our interactive cruising planner.

Honeymoon Maldives safari

Dhoni Stella is also the perfect solution for an exclusive safari for honeymooners. Elegance, privacy and freedom to sail around the archipelago: this is all what Dhoni Stella would offer to a couple for an unforgattable cruise.

Maldives resorts safari

If your goal is to visit the finest resorts of the Maldives during your cruise and perhaps to spend a night in few of them, Dhoni Stella offers you the oppotunity to sail in style from resort to resort with your private yacht. Every day a different Spa for a treatment, a different bar for a cocktail or a different restaurant for dinner.

Hanifaru Biosphere Marine Reserve: Hanifaru Biosphere Marine Reserve

During the SW monsoon the southern part of Hanifaru reef is a feeding aggregation site for whale sharks and manta rays.
Makunudhoo Kandu Marine Reserve: Makunudhoo Kandu Marine Reserve

White-tip reef sharks are seen resting on the sandy bottom. Lionfish are everywhere. Turtles are spotted frequently.
Angafaru Marine Reserve: Angafaru Marine Reserve

During some periods of the year dolphins, whale sharks and mantas are sighted. The area carries mantas ‘cleaning stations.
South Ari Atoll Marine Protected Area: South Ari Atoll Marine Protected Area

Important Maldivian aggregation area for the whale shark, Rhincodon typus.
Hithaadhoo Natural Reserve: Hithaadhoo Natural Reserve

Most important roosting site for frigate birds in Maldives. High diversity of marine invertebrates. Turtle nesting area.
Olhugiri Natural Reserve: Olhugiri Natural Reserve

Regular roosting of frigate birds. Breeding red-billed tropic bird, nesting turtles.
Hurasdhoo Marine Reserve: Hurasdhoo Marine Reserve

Unusual geological coral reef formation. Unique vegetation. High diversity of marine invertebrates and fish.
Huraa Mangrove Natural Reserve: Huraa Mangrove Natural Reserve

Unique vegetation and a resting place for some protected birds. Ten species of mangrove plants are found in the area.
Koattey Natural Reserve: Koattey Natural Reserve

Unique vegetation and a resting and roosting place for most of the protected birds of Maldives.
Fushi Kandu Marine Reserve: Fushi Kandu Marine Reserve

White tip sharks, grey reef sharks, Napoleon wrasses, sea turtles, spotted eagle rays and snappers.
Filitheyo Kandu Marine Reserve: Filitheyo Kandu Marine Reserve

White tip sharks, grey reef sharks, Napoleon wrasses, sea turtles, spotted eagle rays and lionfish.
Hakuraa Thila Marine Reserve: Hakuraa Thila Marine Reserve

Eagle rays, grey reef sharks and caves, anemone garden and caves, bannerfish, jackfish and turtles.
Vattaru Kandu Marine Reserve: Vattaru Kandu Marine Reserve

Sharks, soft coral, mantas, sea turtles. High diversity of marine invertebrates and fish
Rangali Kandu Marine Reserve: Rangali Kandu Marine Reserve

A shallow plateau, 10m with a drop off going down to 40m. Manta point in the season from December to March.
Madivaru Thila Marine Reserve: Madivaru Thila Marine Reserve

Whale sharks, mantas, grey reef sharks, white tip sharks, Napoleon wrasses.
Nassimo Thila Marine Reserve: Nassimo Thila Marine Reserve

Sharks, Napoleon wrasse, mantas, barracudas, eagle rays and nice soft coral formation.
Kuredhu Kanduolhi Marine Reserve: Kuredhu Kanduolhi Marine Reserve

Overhangs, soft corals, grey reef sharks and many pelagic fish. Home to globally endangered ornate eagle ray.
Dhigali Haa Marine Reserve: Dhigali Haa Marine Reserve

Abundance of red-encrusting coralline algae and nice colonies of digitate and branching acropora corals.
Vilingili Thila Marine Reserve: Vilingili Thila Marine Reserve

Fully live soft corals on the top plateau. It is a field of anemone in variety. Napoleon, red snappers, sting rays and barracuda.
Fushifaru Thila Marine Reserve: Fushifaru Thila Marine Reserve

Two manta cleaning stations.Numerous other fish and fish life.
Miyaru Kandu Marine Reserve: Miyaru Kandu Marine Reserve

Soft corals, large fish such as grey reef and white-tipped sharks. Occasional hammerhead and sail fish.
Kudarah Thila Marine Reserve: Kudarah Thila Marine Reserve

It is steep sided with great clefts, overhangs, caves and swim-throughs. Underwater scenery, bat fish.
Mushimasmigili Thila Marine Reserve: Mushimasmigili Thila Marine Reserve

Fish Head is a large isolated reef. Grey reef sharks can normally be seen at the top up-current end.
Orimas Thila Marine Reserve: Orimas Thila Marine Reserve

Underwater scenery, corals, soft corals, and sea anemones, small fish. White-tipped shark and turtle.
Mayaa Thila Marine Reserve: Mayaa Thila Marine Reserve

It is an isolated submerged reef lying in the center of northern Ari Atoll. Grey reef sharks, whitetip reef sharks, stonefish.
Shipyard: Shipyard

Exciting dive between two big wrecks. One fully submersed; the second positioned vertically with the prow out of water.
Erlangen Wreck: Erlangen Wreck

A dive in the history of this big wreck sunk in 1894. The prow is on the shallow reef, while the stern is much deeper.
Muthafushi Thila: Muthafushi Thila

It is an isolated reef standing up from a sandy bottom at 30m. Excellent corals; abundant fish and some grey reef sharks.
Guraidhoo Kandu Marine Reserve: Guraidhoo Kandu Marine Reserve

There are two channels just south of Guraidho.Fish including sharks and coral.
Embudhoo Kandu Marine Reserve: Embudhoo Kandu Marine Reserve

There are many overhangs along the southern channel wall. Grey reef sharks (particularly in the northeast monsoon).
Madivaru Kandu (Rasdhoo): Madivaru Kandu (Rasdhoo)

Diving deep early in the morning for the encounter with the hammerhead shark. Rich marine life.
Bathala Beyru Thila: Bathala Beyru Thila

White tip sharks, grey reef sharks, Napoleon wrasses, sea turtles, spotted sting rays and lionfish.
Maalhos Thila: Maalhos Thila

Exceptional isolated deep reef with overhangs rich of soft corals, yellow snappers and other fish.
Panettone & Thudufushi Thila: Panettone & Thudufushi Thila

Two colorful dives in the Thudufushi channel. Soft corals, rich marine life, overhangs and caves.
Broken Rock & Dhangethi Thila: Broken Rock & Dhangethi Thila

Two isolated reefs standing up from a sandy bottom. Sea fans, overhangs, caves, soft coral, and rich marine life.
Foththeyo Kandu: Foththeyo Kandu

Caves of very big yellow soft corals, pelagic fishes, especially tuna and sharks. Occasionally hammerhead sharks.
The Golden Wall: The Golden Wall

Long wall of yellow soft corals along the inner side of Liththolhu Kandu. Caves and overhangs.
Rakeedhoo Kandu: Rakeedhoo Kandu

Caves and overhangs of blue soft coral. Occasionally mantas, whale sharks, giant groupers and hammerhead sharks.
Mulaku Kandu: Mulaku Kandu

Unusual geological coral reef formation with caves and coral blocks fully covered by soft coral. Pelagic fish.
Gaahuraa Kandu: Gaahuraa Kandu

Spectacular narrow channel with soft coral caves, grey reef sharks and schools of barracudas and jackfish.
Muli Kandu: Muli Kandu

The large channel of Muli is the only pass of the area. Grey reef sharks and tunas, mantas in the southwest monsoon.
Olhugiri Kandu: Olhugiri Kandu

Large isolated reef in the middle of the channel very rich of marine fauna. Barracudas and jackfish schools.
Viligili Kandu: Viligili Kandu

Large concentration of grey reef sharks, white-tip sharks, jackfish and tunas.
Nilandhoo Kandu: Nilandhoo Kandu

Narrow channel with schools of pelagic fish. Grey reef sharks and occasionally hammerhead sharks and ocean sun fish.
Maarehaa Kandu: Maarehaa Kandu

Schools of eagle rays, grey reef sharks, white tip sharks, tunas, jackfish, and rich marine life.
Maabaidhoo & Fushi Kandu: Maabaidhoo & Fushi Kandu

Only two passes on the Eastern border of Laamu atoll, both riches of pelagic.