Packing and paperwork

What Indian travellers need to show on arrival in Malé.

• Passport valid for at least 6 monthsCheck every traveller's, including children's.
• Confirmed return ticket
• Proof of your resort booking
• IMUGA declarationSubmitted online within 96 hours before departure. Fly Goldfinch fills it for you; keep the QR code.
• Photos of your passport and tickets on your phone

The things people most often wish they had brought.

• Sunscreen, ideally reef-safe
• Swimwear, two sets
• Hat, sunglasses and a light cover-up
• Modest clothes for local islands and MaléResort islands are relaxed; inhabited islands are not.
• Waterproof phone pouch
• Travel adapter
• Any regular medicines, plus motion-sickness tablets
• A card that works abroad