Hithadhoo
Hithadhoo is the capital of Seenu Atoll, the most southerly atoll of the Maldives.
The south up to the principal place is closely existed with palms and shrubs, while the entire northern region shows up as partially stony, unreal shrub landscape, which can be explored only on very close paths. Hithadhoo Town shows up as a place with dusty roads, close lanes, bent houses and close, green vegetation. On the roads multicoloured driving prevails, particularly if hundreds of children wait after school conclusion in their different school uniforms for the bus.
After driving straight through Feydhoo and Maradhoo, two small islands communities and several uninhabited islands on the newly paved Link Road (Macadam highway) from Gan, you come to the island capital of the atoll.
Homes in Hithadhoo are built around Ghaazee Magu, the long central avenue. The best places to go for a dip in the sea is Kotte Beach in Hithadhoo at the northern shore of the island where there is a break in the reef and Hankede next to Maradhoo .
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At the northwest local end is the point of land of Fen Muli with a stony beach. Behind it extend directly some pittoreske brackish water lakes with a bird world, unique umsaeumte by close green, for the Maldives, which into the northeast of the island until Koattey continue. Here, from the jungle over-rampantly grown, still the foundation walls of an old, small Forts, nearby the new beacon, are which already 1922 the British archaeologist H.C.P. because in inspection took.
The origins of the Forts are not surely well-known. A legend means that it was the base of Maldivian rebels under the guidance of Bodu Thakurufaanu, which drove 1557 out the Portuguese from the country.
But according to modern estimate it is more probable that this tiny was established away by „Lord the Maldives the “Kunhali Marakkar from Malabar, which operated intensive business in the south of the Archipeis at present the Portuguese rule. Kunhali possessed 200 ships with which it in the Indian Ocean acted, in addition, lossegelte to the Pluendern.