All your life you’ve spent the holidays at home with your family and children, opening presents and eating delicious food without a care in the world. However, this year you decided that you were going to try something new. Something that some people won’t understand. Something so unique that you’ll be talking about it for the rest of your life. You’ve decided to spend your Christmas and New Years in the Maldives. The Maldives. A place that many people only dream of visiting in their lifetime. Although you have a lot planned in your mind, you now find yourself wondering what kind of celebrations are going on here. Well, lucky for you, you will have no trouble finding ways to ring in the New Year.
Understand
The primary religion in the Maldives is Sunni Islam, so the locals do not celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense. However, the Maldives thrives on tourism, so the locals do tend to cater toward their western guests. There is no shortage of decorations, feasting, and celebrations during this time of the year, but it is always a good idea to respect the locals and their customs.
Christmas and New Years Dinners
Something that comes as a bit of a surprise to many guests is that most of the resorts on the islands have mandatory Christmas and New Years dinners. The reason for it being mandatory is that the resorts organise big parties that involve live music, entertainment, food, drinks, and everything else you can imagine. A truly amazing and one of a kind experience.
Scuba and Relaxing
One of the biggest reasons why people come to the Maldives in the first place is to partake in some of the finest diving that the world has to offer. If you have never dived before, the Maldives is the perfect place to do it, and the holidays are a great time to get started. Various companies offer weeklong diving excursions where they take you out on the sea to dive, but they also bring you to different beaches to relax. Diving and laying on a beach for the New Year sounds like a perfect way to begin the year.
The Maldives offers a lot for guests in the way of different kinds of entertainment and food. Although most of the locals do not follow Christianity, this does not mean that the islands are not a great place to be for the holidays. From dancing to scuba diving to eating to relaxing on the beach, there truly is something for every type of traveller.
