Maldives or Republic of Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean. Its capital is Male. Member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). This country is the low-lan country in the world. Famous for tourism, the country has a maximum elevation of only 2.3 meters above sea level and an average elevation of only 1.5 meters. The Maldives consists of more than 1,200 small islands.
Tourists come here for visiting natural beauty of this country.
Overview
Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations, and can involve travel by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.
The origin of the word "travel" is most likely lost to history. The term "travel" may originate from the Old French word travail, which means ‘work’. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, the first known use of the word travel was in the 14th century.
It also states that the word comes from Middle English travailen, travelen (which means to torment, labor, strive, journey) and earlier from Old French travailler (which means to work strenuously, toil). In English we still occasionally use the words "travail", which means struggle. According to Simon Winchester in his book The Best Travelers’ Tales (2004), the words "travel" and "travail" both share an even more ancient root: a Roman instrument of torture called the tripalium (in Latin it means "three stakes", as in to impale).
