I'm craving. Of light and tropical heat, of islands and salt water, of bubbles and coral... I am already nostalgic for the Maldives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
CLARIFICATIONS:<\/strong>\u00a0in April 2014, I interrupted my series of articles on the Maldives<\/a>I found it difficult to continue extolling the beauties of this Indian Ocean archipelago (and thus encouraging people to visit the Maldives) when the regime had tightened its application of Sharia law, after my visit in February 2014. Not respecting human rights, the Maldives had had to leave the Commonwealth of Nations in 2016. But in september 2018<\/strong>, things have changed, with the surprise defeat in the autocratic president's elections Abdulla Yameen<\/a> supported by Islamists and now prosecuted for corruption, beaten by Ibrahim Mohamed Solih<\/a>, an ally of the democratic camp. Then in april 2019<\/strong>, the party of Mohamed Nasheed<\/a>former president of the Maldives (2008-2012), several times imprisoned by the regime and main opposition figure, won the first legislative elections<\/a> since Yameen left. The Maldives return to the path of democracy<\/a>This is great news!<\/p>\n\n\n\n It's been more than a month since I came back from the Maldives... Five weeks and four days have passed since I left the turquoise blue horizon of this coral archipelago on the water<\/a>in the middle of the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Time flies and I'm just starting to explore the images stored in the back of my hard drive... I just found this little panorama that I had forgotten, made with my iPhone, with the nice app Dermandar<\/a>from the bow of the boat, the aptly named Ocean Divine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTurquoise blue panorama<\/h2>\n\n\n\n