Just over 15 minutes away from Velana International Airport and the shopping opportunities of the capital by speedboat. Centara Ras Fushi Resort & Spa Maldives is located on a pristine island of intimate size. Speedboat service connecting the resort with the airport is available 24 hours a day, subject to prior arrangement.
Experience serenity, and embark on a journey of discovery. With its splendid house reef, series of diving excursions and diving courses, and easy access to the North Malé Atoll’s finest dive sites, the resort is an irresistible haven for water sports lovers.
Explore Giraavaru Cave, Kuda Haa, Kuda Faru, Lion’s Head, Shark Point and Kikki Reef, all within a five to 20 minute dhoni ride from the resort; enjoy close encounters with various kinds of marine life and be enchanted by stunning colourful coral formations.
The diving centre
A wonderful underwater world awaits your discovery. Stunning coral reefs packed full of tropical marine life are found in the crystal clear waters (which average 29oC year round) that surround the resort.
With Best Dives at Centara Ras Fushi Resort & Spa Maldives, you can become a certified scuba diver; improve and extend your skills with a new course, or choose your speciality such as Enriched Air diving. Beginners can join a Discover Scuba Dive without the need to sign up to a course. Whatever your requirements, the diving centre has something for you. For diving excursions, please contact the diving centre one day in advance and remember to bring your certification card if you have one.
Divers with 30 logged dives or fewer, or those who have not dived for three months or more, will be required to do an orientation dive.
The water sports centre
A superb selection of aquatic activities is available at Centara Ras Fushi Resort & Spa Maldives, including snorkelling with an abundance of tropical fish, powering across the waves on a wakeboard, gliding up into the air for stunning panoramic views on a parasailing adventure, and relaxing on the mirror-like lagoon with a pedalo.
Our water sports centre has everything you need for an adrenaline-packed time: kneeboards, wakeboards, jet skis, sea bobs, banana boats, fun tubes and more. The highly experienced and EFR-trained water sports centre team is available for guidance and advice to find the activity that best suits your desired adrenaline levels.
Excursions
Experience the best of what the Maldives has to offer with the resort’s extensive selection of excursions, including fishing, island-hopping, dolphin cruises, and shark-spotting experiences. The resort’s well-equipped boats feature a wealth of modern facilities. Share your capacity requirements with the diving centre; they will gladly suggest the ideal vessel for you or your excursion party.
For more details, please visit the Best Dives website.
Only five minutes by dhoni from the resort, the two-part thila of Kuda Haa is known for its variety of marine life, including a diversity of colourful fish and turtles. Equally close to the resort, Giraavaru Cave features overhangs and caves, and is home to large schools of midnight snappers, pelagic fish and eagle rays.
Just 15 minutes away from the island, Old Shark Point, a shark feeding spot located in a channel between North and South Malé Atolls, presents a world to explore featuring canyons, edges and caves. Sightings include morays, eagle rays, large pelagic fish, stingrays and Napoleons in the caves and washouts, and sharks occasionally. Less than 20 minutes away from the resort by dhoni lays one of Maldives’ most popular dive spots, Kikki Reef, with its 100-metre wall dive, coral-filled overhangs, and marine life. Suitable for divers of all levels, Kikki Reef is best enjoyed at depths of between five and 15 metres where there are caves and ledges galore. Deriving its name from a lion’s head shaped overhang, Lion’s Head makes for a thrilling diving experience, offering the opportunity to see red-toothed triggerfish, sea turtles, Napoleons, leaf fish, stone fish, fusiliers, tunas and sharks. Lion’s Head’s intriguing caves and crevices teem with marine life. Kuda Faru, 10 minutes away from the island, is best for viewing reef sharks, while soft and hard coral form the top of the reef. The large overhang at 27 metres depth is populated with squirrelfish, turtles, Napoleons and nurse sharks.
Diving the wreck of the Maldives Victory freighter is a fascinating experience. Reached by a 45-minute dhoni ride, this 30-metre deep dive is recommended for advanced divers. Sunk in 1981, the 110-metre-long freighter is encrusted with coral.
Island lifestyle and forward-thinking attitude emanate from fascinating Malé, the capital of the Maldives. Marvel at the city’s heritage monuments, including the current presidential residence, Mulee-aage, built before the First World War and overlooking the magnificent Hukuru Miskiyy, or Friday Mosque, and the grand mosque, catch a glimpse of local lifestyle at the main markets, each bustling with life and colour, and unwind whilst sampling local delicacies at the numerous teashops and cafés that dot the island. Malé is a popular shopping destination also.
