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Malé, Maldives
5 customs and traditions in Malé — what they are, and how to take part without causing offence.
Most resorts occupy a whole island, so the resort is the destination.
Big-drum music and dance with a call-and-response lead, performed at gatherings.
Public eating and drinking in daylight is prohibited on inhabited islands during Ramadan.
Turned and lacquered wooden boxes in red, black and yellow, a Baa atoll craft.
The traditional curved-prow vessel, now mostly diesel, still the workhorse between islands.
