The Hanifaru Bay

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Hanifaru Transit Inn provides accommodation nearest to Hanifaru Bay which takes less than 5 minutes to reach by a speed boat.

 

Hanifaru Bay which is known locally as Vandhumaafaru Adi is thought to be one of the few places in the world where whale sharks congregate in to mate although recent research suggests otherwise with the vast majority of the whale sharks seen there being young males. The bay is however regularly sees some of the largest gatherings of Manta rays worldwide with up to one hundred individuals in the small inlet when the tide pushes plankton into the bay.