Maldives Eco Tours

A wonderful holiday. Loved exploring Sri Lanka (lovely people and terrific food) The Dhoni cruise was the best way to see Maldives with different location each day, each with superb snorkelling. Amazing food produced in that modest kitchen.

Fabulous trip with a great guise and crew on the dhoni. Lots of snorkelling and swimming, visits to sandbars and uninhabited islands. Great food coked by the onboard chef. Could not recommend highly enough.

Egan was fantastic. Crew were excellent. Food was unbelievably delicious and plentiful Cabins comfortable Boat spotless. Loved the snorkelling - sharks, turtles, dolphins. Only small criticism is we didn't see much maldivian culture. I would have liked lunch in a local home or a local dance class or similar

I hadn’t done an explore trip for a number of years but this trip reminded me why I love it so much. The trip was wonderful and the food on the boat was as amazing. Our guide was a great photographer and captured all the excitement from our daily snorkling and island hopping. Would recommend to anyone

We started our Dhoni cruise after spending 5 nights on a resort, as we wanted to experience the “real Maldives” in contrast. We wanted to extend our trip as felt it was a long way to travel for just 6 nights. One of the main highlights of the cruise was our outstanding guide Egan and the crew of Koimala, who all worked so hard together to ensure we were incredibly well looked after and safe. The food was out of this world, three beautiful meals a day, healthy and fresh with plenty of variety. Catering for any allergies well. The crew made us an unforgettable dinner on an uninhabited island one evening which was very special. We enjoyed the visits to two inhabited islands as it was good to stretch our legs and see how Maldivians live on land. Although I would say the time spent on Male was quite underwhelming. Our cabin was basic but clean and comfortable. One small double bed with a single bunk on top and en-suite bathroom You definitely need to enjoy snorkelling to consider this trip, as the dramatic scenery is all under water. Huge reefs with so many colourful fish. We were taken out snorkelling at least twice a day. Highlights included swimming with turtles, dolphins and nurse sharks which were so gentle and serene. Also seeing sting rays. I would also suggest that you need to be reasonably fit to do this trip, as although it’s very relaxing you need to be able to climb into a bunk bed, climb in and out of the dingy and negotiate walking around the boat when it is rocking!

We had two leaders - one in Sri Lanka and another in the Maldives. Both were excellent, but particularly Su in Sri Lanka because we encountered very difficult circumstances due to exceptionally heavy rainfall during our trip.