{"id":6556,"date":"2014-04-21T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/petitesbullesdailleurs\/?p=6556"},"modified":"2020-02-23T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T10:42:22","slug":"guesthouses-maldives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/guesthouses-maldives-20140421\/","title":{"rendered":"My guesthouse in Maldives"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Maldives for not too much money? It is possible. There is an alternative to the luxury island-hotels: the guesthouses of the inhabited islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

New tourism in the Maldivian archipelago<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I discovered the Maldives in February 2014. A new destination on Bubbles Underwater & Beyond<\/em> ! \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\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

In the south of India, this immense archipelago on the water<\/a> is known for its luxury island hotels and resorts, overpriced, cut off from the local population, frequented by very wealthy tourists and honeymoon couples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Island-hotel<\/a>
Island-hotel in the Maldives. February 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For a long time, the Maldives has chosen to focus on luxury tourism, taking care to limit contact between foreign visitors and the local population. But this is changing. Recently, locals have been allowed to open \"guesthouses\", which range from guesthouses to small tourist hotels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These guesthouses have multiplied in the last few years and there is now a wide range of choices from the north to the south of the archipelago for independent travelers. You can stay in the villages of the inhabited islands and discover the real life of \"real people<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n