11 Day Boat Surf Trip in Huvadhu Atoll, Maldives
Adventure Maldives Surf Tour
You are invited to come and join Blue Horizon for the adventure of a lifetime, on the board of Horizon II. Do not miss this opportunity!
Highlights
- 10 days of activities
- Daily surf lessons
- Island hopping, resort visits, and cruising
- 10 nights accommodation
- Transfers to and from the airport
- Daily meals
Skill level
- Intermediate
Styles
Accommodation
Facilities
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Bar
- Barbeque facilities
- Dining area
- Lounge
For your 11-day tour, the Horizon II will be your home. It is a type of yacht that is rarely seen in the Maldives today, and it is a traditionally built wooden yacht that is perfect for a family or a small group. The Horizon II is an agile adventure that will take you to the most remote locations of the Maldives, where you can enjoy the secluded beaches and waters. The Horizon II offers excellent services and comfort. You will find different varieties of media entertainment on board, as well as board games.
A photograph or a memory album can be made at extra cost, by requesting at the time of booking and by paying 100 USD per person for photo CD. There are six rooms on the Horizon II, comfortable and air-conditioned, that have a view of the beautiful scenery around the boat. Each room consists of a bathroom with hot and cold water. There are two double bedrooms and four twin bedrooms on board.
Double bedrooms
The bed configuration is one single bed plus one double bed, Cabin bed type is bunk bed. This can be for 3 pax, but depend on the size of the person.
Sun deck for relaxation
Relax and refresh your mind on the big box benches with cushions. This big boxes is dual purpose, if you open it – it is a storage area for the surfboard bag.
Twin bedrooms
The maximum occupancy is for two people.
Endheri Dhoni
A wooden dhoni, smaller boat, that accompanies the Horizon II and takes you to the surfing locations where a larger boat just cannot enter. It is ideal for groups, families, friends, or individuals, where the Horizon II is an affordable boat that gives you maximum flexibility.
Program
You will experience surfing sessions, guided by an instructor, get to engage in snorkeling sessions, and take advantage of the amazing weather the Maldives has to offer. You will be well served, with delicious daily meals and drinks, and you will be surrounded by people that share the same passions as you. For this surf camp, you will enjoy surfing to the maximum, combined with snorkeling. You will tour the area of Huvadhoo Atoll and surf at some of the most beautiful places. The meals will help you keep up with all the activities and the drinks will keep you refreshed and hydrated.
The surf breaks are near and that will save you time, having fewer boats and fewer crowds. You will meet and greet at the Male International Airport (MLE) or at Kaadedhdhoo Airport (KDM) and check in at 8:00 p.m. You will enjoy the airport surf break after. For the duration of your camp, you will experience different activities such as surfing at the Blue Bowls at Vaadhoo island and taking on an adventure at the Beacons or Barracuda Point. You will also surf at the Casterwave and delight yourself at the Thinadoo cafe’ break, then move on to the lips surf break.
For the next few days, you will take pleasure in the Five Islands surf break and surf at Lovecharms, near Gazeera. On the uninhabited island, you will enjoy a barbecue and also a snorkeling session at Gan island. At the Tiger Stripes, you will enjoy a relishing moment of surfing and then check out at 4:30 p.m. The itinerary is subject to change due to weather conditions, the length of the trip, and the group’s majority decision.
Daily itinerary
Day 1
Arrive at Huvadhu Atoll, Maldives.
Day 2
Horizon II starts cruising at 6:00 a.m. You will start from Thinadhoo Island which is 15 minutes away from the airport. Breakfast is served at 8:30 a.m. Around 9:30 a.m., you reach the first surf break that is near Vadhoo. This surf break is called "Blue Bowl" where surfers can start surfing early morning. The swells start early morning. You can spend two to three hours there surfing and having the time of your life.
Around 12:30 p.m., lunch is served. After lunch, surfers march once again to the surf break and do surfing until 5:30 or 6:00 p.m. After finishing the surfing, you get to enjoy a stunning Maldivian sunset which will take you places. Dinner is served at 8:30 p.m. and surfers sleep around 10 or 10:30 p.m.
Day 3
You start the day at 6:00 a.m. cruising to the next surf point named Five Islands. While having breakfast at 8:30 a.m., you can get to see dolphins in front of the boat. Upon reaching Gan island, you check the waves. If it is low tide, surfers wait for the tide to become a high tide. If the tide is low, surfers can do island hopping. Gan is a beautiful island. The surf guide and Dhoni crew take you for island hopping where you get to see the streets, houses, and a local lifestyle. After island hopping, it is time for lunch.
After lunch, if the waves are still low tide, you can do snorkeling. The uninhabited island next to Gan island has a good reef and many fishes can be seen. Around 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., the tide is high and you can surf. The surfing finishes between 5:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. You have light snacks and a coffee and get ready for dinner. You get to enjoy a stunning Maldivian sunset which will take you places. Dinner is served at 8:30 p.m. and surfers sleep around 10 or 10:30 p.m.
Day 4
You start the day at 6:00 a.m. cruising to the next surf point and have breakfast at 8:30 a.m. After breakfast, you will go surfing, and if you want, you can snorkel as well. Then you will enjoy your lunch. After lunch, you go for another surf session. After this session, you have light snacks and a coffee and get ready for dinner.
Day 5
You started day four by cruising to different surf breaks. You have the flexibility to check different breaks in Huvadhoo to surf. After breakfast, you go surfing and have a two to three-hour session. Sometimes, a GoPro session as well. Post lunch, you relax a little bit and then go surfing again. Once you finish the surfing session at 5:30 p.m., you can shower, have coffee, and get ready for dinner.
Day 6
As usual, you start the day at 6:00 a.m. by cruising to the next surf break and checking the waves, and depending on the condition, surf there.
Day 7
You can either surf or do island hopping or snorkeling. It is totally up to you.
Day 8
After the surfing session, dinner will be served at 7:30 p.m.
Day 9
You do surfing at 6:00 a.m. and can have two sessions.
Day 10
As usual, you go surfing, come back, have breakfast, do some resting, and do a second session around the afternoon. Once you come back, you take lunch followed by tea. You go for a third session and finish surfing around 6:00 p.m. There is a special surprise on the last night. You can experience it while being on Horizon II. You are absolutely going to love it.
Day 11
You start the day at 6:00 a.m. by jumping in the water for surfing. You can do either one or two sessions on the last day. A morning session and the afternoon session. You have breakfast. After the second session of surfing, lunch is served.
Location
During your tour, you will visit some of the most attractive areas in the Maldives. The tour will include the most amazing locations of South Atolls, such as Blue Bowls, the Beacons, Casterwave, Thinadoo Cafe Break, Lips Surf Break, the Five Islands, Love Charms, Tiger Stripes, and Gan. Huvadhoo Atoll (South of Maldives) is a great itinerary and atmosphere away from the crowd to provide quality surf. The surf spots are closer to each other. The surf and swell have been very consistent (three to six feet of waves). It is better than other locations in Male or Central Atolls.
Why surfing in Huvadhoo?
One of the main reasons that you should surf in Huvadhoo is because it is uncrowded. Hardly two to three boats are seen in this atoll. Sometimes one or two. The best thing about Huvadhoo is that all the surf breaks are nearby. You do not have to travel five hours to reach the next surf break. All the breaks in Huvadhoo are half an hour away unlike in the Malé region.
Huvadhoo is not only filled with amazing surf breaks but is also filled with tons of sandbanks. In the Malé region, you have to travel five hours to go to a sandbank while you can locate five to eight sandbanks within a distance of 20 to 40 minutes. There are both, big and small sandbanks. This alone makes Huvadhoo an ultimate surfing destination.
World-class waves
Huvadhoo has one of the best waves in Maldives and is less crowded. You can get to enjoy many surf breaks as all the surf breaks in Huvadhoo are nearby.
Pearls of the sandbank
Besides surfing, there are plenty of sandbanks to visit. The crew will take you to do on island hopping. Barbecue at sandbank sounds like a lovely idea.
South Atolls
Since a clean southern swell is about all you could ask for at these breaks, the result is waves with a ton of power and heaps of opportunities to get shacked. These southerly atolls differ from the northerly atolls in not providing perfectly shaped or soft-breaking waves. These waves break fast and throw hard, with a whole lot of power, probably best suited for advanced surfers or at least daring intermediates. The waves you will find in the southern Atolls are the kind of waves you keep reliving days, weeks, and months after your Maldives surf trip has come to an end.
South Atolls still remain the last frontier on surf trips. This is one of the most remote areas on the planet, where charter boats are the only form of access, making this an exclusive and relatively expensive surf trip. The Huvadhoo referred often to as the Southern Atolls, is located in the most southern section of the Maldives, which surfers are continually reminded of when they arrive upon empty surf break, after empty surf break.
Although it may not be completely abandoned, fewer surf boats and surf charters operate in this area, causing even the most popular spots in this region to be less crowded than the Northern Atolls. Of all the Maldives surf spots, the breaks in the southern Atolls remain among the most secluded and idyllic, preserving the reality of a remote island paradise that comes complete with incredible waves. Huvadhoo Atoll is best known for Beacons, Castaways, and Tiger Stripes.
Beacons
Beacons and Tiger Stripes are two of the most powerful waves in the Maldives, barreling down fast and hard onto a fringed shallow reef, a common feature of southern surf spots, for advanced surfers only. Just remember that swells will break down the reef, but a southeast swell will create peaks slamming straight onto close-out sections of coral.
Blue Bowls
Voodoos or Blue Bowls is a very long right-hander, very exciting, especially at four to six feet, and protected from southwest-west winds. This wave is surfable all the time, all swells, all tides, and all sizes. It is a good length for an easy ride and has nice sections for some moves.
Five Islands or Gani Point
Five Islands or Gani Point is another right-hander, protected from the south-southwest winds. A hollow wave breaks hard on a shallow inside the reef and it is better to surf at mid-high tide. This is maybe the wave that handles the biggest swells at all tides.
Love Charms
Love Charms are right next to Two Ways and are working on any swell size. This wave can be surfed at every tide and handles different wind directions, but the best conditions occur when it is small in size, low tide, and with east winds. It has a beautiful long wave, with two sections, the take-off on the hollow wall and some little nice tubes at the inside section.
Tiger Stripes or Rockets
Tiger Stripes or Rockets is a fun left-hander, not very hollow, but with long workable walls and a complicated take-off into a long speedy wall, before presenting an inside tube section that gets smooth and breaks out easily in the channel. Very consistent and can be surfed at all tides. Best conditions with west-northwest winds. This is a simple and neglected wave when small, but can be really challenging in a strong swell.
Features
Activities
- Boating
- Snorkeling
- Surfing
- Swimming
General
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Bar
- Beach
- Dining area
Food
You will be served daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner; tea and coffee throughout the day; a mineral water bottle per person per day (mineral water dispenser available); one beer or soft drink for lunch and dinner per person per day included in the price. You will enjoy eating on the front deck, in the breathtaking scenery and fresh air, or even in the indoor dining room.
You will enjoy full board meals which include breakfast, lunch, and dinner, along with desserts. A delicious and wide range of food will be available and food can be prepared as per your special requests. For drinks, you will be having complimentary tea, coffee, and mineral water will always be available on board. For birthdays and special occasions, the Horizon II provides tasty flavored cakes.
Menu
Day 2
- Breakfast: bread, an omelet, jam, peanut butter, sausages, fresh orange juice, and butter
- Lunch: tuna, vegetable rice, sashimi with wasabi oil and sauce, fried cucumbers along with beans and pineapple in a dessert
- Coffee with light snacks (you can choose tea, coffee, or beer)
Day 3
- Breakfast: masooni (Maldivian breakfast) with bread, omelet, and fresh juice
- Lunch: boiled rice and veggie curry with fried tuna and sashimi with wasabi sauce and fresh juice followed up with light snacks and a coffee
- Dinner: veggie rice, pasta, beef, tuna pizza, boiled pepper potatoes, and salad
Day 4
- Breakfast: pie with sauce, bread, omelet, and sausages with tea and coffee
- Lunch: fried fish, veggie rice, and salad followed by coffee and snacks with fresh juice followed up with light snacks and a coffee
- Dinner: fried chicken pieces, spaghetti with sauce and cheese, tuna taco, veggie rice, potato wedges, and salad followed by coffee and snacks
Day 5
- Breakfast: bread, omelet, orange juice, sausages, coffee, butter, and peanut butter
- Lunch: boiled rice with tuna fish and fried Maldivian short eats followed by tea and coffee and light snacks
- Dinner: bun filled with tuna, fried chicken, salad, pasta, and fried veggie rice
Day 6
- Breakfast: bread, omelet, watermelon, orange juice, sausages, coffee, butter, peanut butter
- Lunch: rice, baked potatoes with cheese, and tuna fish
- Dinner: bun filled with tuna, fried chicken, salad, spaghetti, fried veggie rice
Day 7
- Breakfast: banana, roshi, masooni, sausages, tea, coffee, juice, and apple juice
- Lunch: rice fish, sashimi with wasabi sauce, cucumber, and watermelon
- Dinner: French fries, fried chicken pieces, pasta, veggie rice, and salad
Day 8
- Breakfast: banana, roshi, masooni, sausages, tea, coffee, juice, and apple juice
- Lunch: rice, fish, sashimi with wasabi sauce, cucumber, and watermelon
- Dinner: French fries, fried chicken pieces, pasta, veggie rice, and salad
Day 9
- Breakfast: bread, omelet, orange, apple juice, orange juice, Roshi with masooni (Maldivian breakfast), sausages, coffee, butter, and peanut butter
- Lunch: boiled rice with curry, tuna fish, and fried fish followed by a coffee
- Dinner: beef burger, fried beef, salad, pasta, and fried veggie rice
Day 11
- Breakfast: bread, omelet, oranges, and masooni with Roshi (Maldivian Breakfast) with orange juice and apple juice followed by coffee
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
Things to do (optional)
- Photography or memory album
What's included
- Surf support Dhoni
- Island hopping, resort visits, and cruising (subject to the group's majority decision)
- Birthday and wedding anniversary celebration with cake (upon request)
- 10 nights accommodation on board
- Full board meals
- Uninhabited island barbeque dinner (if time and weather permit and subject to the group's majority decision)
- Tea and coffee throughout the day
- A mineral water bottle (free 1500ml) per person refillable. if dispenser unavailable, per person 1.5 liters of water per day will be provided for free.
- Mineral water dispenser
- Roundtrip transfers between the airport and the boat
- Last-day surf stops at noon
- Services of professional surf guidance on board
- 10% Service Charge
- 16% TGST
- Green Tax
What's not included
- Airfare
- Admin charges (70 USD per invoice to be added)
- Domestic flights between Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (MLE) and Kaadedhdhoo Airport (KDM) (460 USD per trip, to be paid in advance)
- Green tax (6 USD per night, to be paid on board)
- Travel insurance
- Photography or memory album
- Additional transfers if needed
- Full-fledged bar
- Wi-Fi
- 12% GST on onboard purchases
- Crew gratuities (10 USD per guest per day)
- Island fees for barbecue (5 USD)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Ibrahim Nasir International Airport
411 km
Transfer included
Kaadedhdhoo Airport
4 km
Transfer included
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (MLE) or Kaadedhdhoo Airport (KDM). Transfer from and to the airport is included. Blue Horizon will pick you up from the airport. For domestic flights, you can choose Kaadedhdhoo Airport (KDM). You will need to look for the Blue Horizon sign board at the domestic terminal. All other transfers will be arranged upon requests such as speedboat, seaplane, or domestic airlines will be charged as per invoice, by their respective operators and there will be handling the charge of 35 USD per guest.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 50% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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