How to send your luggage in Cargo from Maldives in Air India

If you are moving back home from Maldives to India, then you will be having lots of luggage and its not advisable to carry along with you. The best way is to send through Cargo. The procedure is very simple and the cost is very less.

First get your things packed well in boxes and count the number of boxes

Then go to Cyprea Travels in Male’ who are the authorized agents for Air India Cargo and tell them the number of boxes and the destination details. They will give you labels for the number of boxes you have.

Next you need to take all your goods to the Male’ International Airport cargo and get it weighed and get clearance from Customs and NSS. Then again from the Island aviation office you need to fill up a form and then come back again to Cyprea and make the payment according the weight. Then again you need to go back to the Cargo and hand over the Airway bills. You will get a copy of the airway bill. Usually the next day, the goods to be sent to the destination.

Hope this may be helpful for you

Election for India Club in Maldives

Election for the executive members for the Registered India Club In Maldives was held today. The election was held at the Indian High Commission In Maldives

There were 8 candidates competing for 3 seats.

DhiTV the second private TV channel in Maldives inaugurated

DhiTV a private television channel was inaguated by the President of Maldives at function held at Dharubaaruge in Male’, the capital of Maldives. Champaa Mohamed Moosa is the founder of DhiTV.

Visa for Maldives

If you are traveling to Maldives as a tourist, you can obtain the visa on arrival. You will need to check for the following before you travel. You can obtain a visa for 30 days or if you want to stay for more days, you can get a tourist visa for a maximum period of 90 days

• Accommodation at Maldives or the details of the Hotel Reservation
• Return ticket from Maldives
• Sufficient fund to stay in Maldives for the days you need to stay

Before you travel, make sure that you do not carry, Ammunition, Animals and Alcohol, its banned here in Maldives. There are a good number of resorts in Maldives which provide excellent accommodation and vacation

If you are visiting your relatives who are working in Maldives, then you can ask them to get a sponsorship letter submitted to the Maldives Immigration at least 2 hours before the arrival of your flight.

Teachers Strikes end in Maldives

The indefinite strike by the local teachers in Maldives was withdrawn after agreeing to give the Government one month time to come up with a solution. The strike was to increase the salary of the teachers

Finance Minister Gasim said last Sunday said that if the teachers’ salaries were to be increased beginning next August then they would need Rf196 million and that the funds were not available from the current Government budget. He also said that it can only be done by submitting a supplementary budget to the Majlis. However, Minister Gasim has not said whether a supplementary budget would be submitted or not so far.

Private Clinics in Maldives

There are a few private clinics in Maldives. The Major Government hospital in Maldives is the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital or shortly called IGMH and only private hospital in Maldives is ADK hospital. There is another private hospital coming in Addu which is called IMDC.

Private clinics in Male’ the capital of Maldives

• AMDC Clinic
• Central Clinic
• Imperial Medical Centre
• The Clinic
• Yeganegi’s Clinic
• Male’ Medical Centre
• Poly Clinic
• Family Clinic
• IMDC

There is no initiative by any of the healthcare providers in Maldives to promote Medical Tourism in Maldives even though tourism is the biggest revenue generator for the country.

Teachers in Maldives on strike today

The school teachers in Maldives are on indefinite strike from today. Teaching is fully effected. Teachers are demanding higher salary. Its really true that the teachers are not paid well here.

Its really true that the salary scale for the teachers are very low but they have the option of taking private tutions. If a teacher needs to save some money, then he / she needs to take private classes or tutions after the working hours. To get a teachers job in Maldives, now a days the recruitment is done through some recruiting agencies and they collect about US$ 500 for this service.

Taxi fare increased in Maldives

Recently due to the increase in the price in petrol, the taxi fares have been increased to MRF 25 from MRF 20. This was official announced last Friday. Its really burns paying this money, but we cannot do anything as the petrol prices have gone by MRF 3 per liter.

Hotel Asia Exhibition video on blip tv

I am really happy with the quality of the video that I get from blip.tv. Other great factor is the earnings from these videos. I will come back soon with my experience with blip.tv

View of Maldives from a Sea Plane

Maldives is group of islands. The islands look so beutiful when you view it from the sky. I got some snaps yesterday while traveling to Vilu reef resort in Maldives.

Some lagoons in Maldives

Male’ the capital of Maldives

A ferry

You can see the beauty of this natural color. The color is according to the depth of the sea. I have taken all these pictures on my canon Tx 1 camera. Some pictures are zoomed and edited using Picasa which is an excellent tool for editing images

Next Page »