{"id":4331,"date":"2017-09-12T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ru\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:40:01","slug":"hanifaru-heaven-for-animal-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ru\/hanifaru-heaven-for-animal-lovers.html","title":{"rendered":"Hanifaru Heaven for Animal Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re an animal lover, then Hanifaru Bay between June and November should be on your MUST visit list: it\u2019s the only place in the world where you can see manta rays in such huge numbers in one place. It also has the added bonus of being a great place to look for whale sharks \u2013 the largest fish in the ocean!<\/p>\n<p>Hanifaru Bay is in the heart of the Baa Atoll UNESCO World biosphere and is a quick speeboat ride from Milaidhoo Maldives. We\u2019ve recently been enjoying some spectacular manta sightings in and around Hanifaru Bay, as this video shows.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re wondering why the water doesn\u2019t look as crystal-clear as you normally find in the Maldives, that\u2019s because of the large amounts of plankton in the water. Plankton may make photos and videos look a bit fuzzy, but it\u2019s the reason why the manta rays and whale sharks are here: they eat the plankton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re an animal lover, then Hanifaru Bay between June and November should be on your MUST visit list: it\u2019s the only place in the world where you can see manta rays in such huge numbers in one place. It also has the added bonus of being a great place to look for whale sharks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocean-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9964,"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/9964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}