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3WILDLIFE<br />
SWIMS<br />
SWIM WITH<br />
DOLPHINS<br />
IN PUERTO<br />
VALLARTA,<br />
MEXICO<br />
Invest in an<br />
underwater camera<br />
or case: seeing a<br />
pod of these wild<br />
bottlenose dolphins<br />
frolicking around<br />
your flippers is a<br />
memory you’ll want<br />
to replay.<br />
SNORKEL WITH<br />
WHALE SHARKS<br />
IN ARI ATOLL,<br />
MALDIVES<br />
This full-day<br />
excursion, run<br />
by the five-star<br />
Huvafen Fushi<br />
resort, makes<br />
snorkelling with<br />
these giants feel<br />
like a one-on-one.<br />
Float calmly as they<br />
glide past.<br />
DIVE WITH<br />
TURTLES IN<br />
SIPADAN,<br />
MALAYSIA<br />
Turtle-spotting<br />
off Sipadan Island<br />
doesn’t feel as<br />
intrusive with<br />
access limited<br />
to 120 people a<br />
day. Go April to<br />
September, when<br />
females nest on the<br />
beach.<br />
POSTER-PERFECT PLUNGE<br />
La Maddalena, Sardinia<br />
Are you floating? Or are you flying?<br />
The clarity of the water surrounding<br />
Sardinia’s virgin Maddalena archipelago<br />
can play tricks on you. As you lie<br />
suspended in the aquamarine liquid,<br />
ears submerged so that all sounds<br />
are dulled to a drowsy murmur, the<br />
sailboat that delivered you here looks<br />
as if it’s dangling in mid-air — it’s almost<br />
impossible to gauge where the sky ends<br />
and the sea begins. You knew Sardinia’s<br />
northeast coast would be a corker: its<br />
white-sand coves pick up best-beach<br />
awards as breezily as daisies. But the<br />
Maddalena islands’ shores are a notch<br />
up: so pristine and well-protected, the<br />
judges don’t yet know to add them to<br />
their shortlist. Of the 60-plus islands,<br />
you can only camp on a handful, so a<br />
boat trip is the best way to make this<br />
fantasy swim real. Dario, the skipper of<br />
’20s wooden sailboat Pulcinella, knows<br />
the Maddalenas like his own children,<br />
and always delivers his group (of 12<br />
max) there ahead of the pack. While he<br />
drops anchor, shimmy your way past<br />
others onto the first dinghy headed to<br />
shore — that way, yours will be the first<br />
body of the day to hit the crystal waters.<br />
Go in September: the shallow bays are<br />
tub-warm and you might even spot a<br />
dolphin or two.<br />
28 worldtravellermagazine.com
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