Best Maldives Manta Spotting Activities

October 26, 2024 admin 5 Star Hotels & Resorts 0

A holiday in the Maldives during manta season is the way to get a huge tick on your bucket list. If you have swimming, snorkelling or scuba diving with manta rays on your list of dream activities to accomplish in your lifetime, you are in for a treat if you are planning a stay at Komandoo Maldives between November and March. Mantas visit cleaning stations at Fushifaru Thila, a marine protected area and a well-known manta hot-spot, within easy reach of Komandoo, where small fish await their arrival and then provide an essential service in ridding the manta of parasites, payment is by way of meal! Despite their huge size, mantas are harmless, they use their enormous mouth to feed on plankton-rich water close to the surface and pose no threat to humans.

To have the very best chance of spotting mantas while in the Maldives you need to book snorkelling and diving activities. Our team at Prodivers organise regular snorkelling excursions to reefs that are abundant with life and when the mantas are around there will be dedicated Manta Search boats. If you are a diver, you can experience the mantas from a different perspective, by staying close to the reef, a respectable distance from the cleaning stations you’ll get a great view of the mantas gliding in and being cleaned. If you don’t dive or snorkel, Komandoo’s shallow, sandy lagoon is the perfect place to learn snorkelling skills and try diving for the first time – the instructors at Prodivers are friendly, patient and experts at putting nervous guests at ease – the manta encounters will be worth every moment you spend getting comfortable in the water. Due to the ocean’s unpredictability, you can’t always get what you want, but if you try, you might find just what you came to see!

These huge gentle giants of the ocean are mesmerising to watch and you’ll never forget your first manta encounter, it’s simply magical – just like your stay at Komandoo Maldives Resort.

Be sure to sign up for just about every snorkelling and diving trip when at Komandoo to increase your chances of seeing these beauties yourself!