Nika, the island paradise island of gentleness that is all the rage in the Maldives
Nika Island, in the Maldives, was officially baptized as the 1st Gentile Island in the World in April 2023. Where is it, what is it like and why it falls in love.
Nika is a small island that is part of the Maldives , an island country of 298 square kilometers of mainland and just over half a million inhabitants, located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Sri Lanka and India.
It is an archipelago made up of 1,192 coral islands, of which only 203 are inhabited, and grouped into a double chain of 26 atolls. The Maldives are not only the flattest country in the world, with a maximum altitude of 2.4 meters above sea level, but they are also one of the most beautiful places on the planet .
The island of Nika offers the traveler all these delights and enjoyments typical of an earthly Eden, adding two added values: it is not subject to the dynamics of mass tourism that for some observers is redefining the essence of the Maldives, and it has been proclaimed as the “ First Gentile Island of the World ”.
"A beautiful thing is a joy forever", wrote the English poet John Keats and due to its pure beauty the island of Nika fully embodies the value of kindness", they point out from the organization that has awarded it this recognition, in a ceremony held under a hundred-year-old Ficus bengalensis tree – “Nika” in Divehi, the local language of the island.
The universal value of Nika, the world's first gentile island
The first "Gentle Island" in the world has been officially named that way by the International Kindness Movement, IKM , or International Kindness Movement, in which more than 300,000 people and hundreds of organizations, companies and institutions participate in Italy and elsewhere. countries.
“This movement helps spread the universal value of kindness through initiatives in different corners of the world, and this small but significant jewel in the Indian Ocean expresses this philosophy to the fullest, embracing this value and translating it into social and cultural projects that benefit the ecosystem”, says Daniel Lumera, founder of IKM.
“Nika is one of the most beautiful places in the world, where the paradisiacal white sands meet the deep blue of the ocean and each corner represents the balanced union of the concepts of tradition and beauty. It is a symbol of the extraordinary Maldives islands, where everything is developed paying attention to the environment, sustainability, culture and the preservation of traditions, education and social issues”, stand out from the IKM.
“This island is a piece of the history of the Maldives, one of the first islands of the Ari Atoll, which was transformed, forty years ago, into a unique destination that has maintained the flavor of the past and a close link with Italy, especially with Venice”, they add.
In Nika there is also a system of self-production of water that avoids the use of plastic bottles , and in addition, single-dose plastic containers for food and courtesy products in the rooms of the island resort have been replaced by refillable ceramic containers. , as he points out.
A biological agricultural self-production system has also been inaugurated , which produces vegetables through aquaponics (plant cultivation in tanks and trays with water, which is reused in a "closed cycle"). For the rest of the agricultural production, natural fertilizers and the biological purification of residual waters are used, which allows them to be reused in irrigation.
Nika: where is this Maldives paradise
As we said, Nika is situated in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Sri Lanka and India.
