Many people worry that indolent isolation of the Maldives would be just too boring for them, but many resorts have rather robust water centres with everything from water skiing to parasailing. A lot of the offerings are quite standard – canoes, windsurfers, catamarans, banana floats. But the best boat we at Maldives Complete have come across is the W Retreat’s ‘Molokini’ glass bottomed canoe. A new dimension to paddling around the lagoon and probably the closest one can get to snorkelling without actually snorkelling