Luxurious white sandy beaches, warm surf of the azure ocean, exotic fruits and birds, so we are used to imagine the Maldives. Find out which back side of this paradise on Earth
Probably, each of us wanted to visit the Maldives at least once. However, not everyone knows what "second side of the coin" is hidden behind all these paradise beauties. In fact, the indigenous Maldivians do not live as they do in paradise.
Hardly anyone knows that not far from Male was created an entire island area of 3.5 to 0.2 km as a landfill, which is taken to the mountain of garbage left by tourists.
Here, right above the garbage heaps, there are just over 1000 people.
Also on the island there is a plant for shipbuilding, a factory for packing cement and several other enterprises.
The worst thing is that some of the garbage is washing away the ocean, and this has a particularly negative effect on the ecology and marine life.
Even around the island, water is strewn with tons of garbage.
No less sad is the fact that many local people live very poorly, on the azure shores you can find whole areas of slums.