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In the past six days, John and I had hot spring bath in Hakone, watched sakura blossoms in the most beautiful parks in Tokyo, saw great museums and wonderful Tokyo night view, had unforgettably romantic lunch on a boat by blooming sakura curtain, made a trip to a famous local fish market, enjoyed Pooh’s Honey [...]
My gosh, where did the first three months of 2010 go? Is it just me, of does this year go by faster? Without knowing it, here goes the first quarter already. Oh boy…
Meanwhile, I went from posting here once a week to… once a month.
I’ve been really, really busy. I am sure this is not [...]
Just when I finally finished writing about our honeymoon trip five months after we returned (and I only wrote about the essentials, been real busy), John and I visited a new country again (did I mention that there are two other domestic trips I haven’t had time to write about yet?).
We just returned from a 6-day [...]
Surrounded by this kind of gorgeous water, and enjoyed snorkeling 2-3 times a day, it didn’t take us too long to decide that we want to get certified in scuba diving. There’s a Dive Center on our resort island that offered full-service diving package with lessons given by multi-lingual instructors. It was all very convenient.
To get [...]
While taking a tour of a local village, our guide asked as a trivia question. He said whoever gets it right at the end of the tour will win a prize.
The question was: “How many different colors of coconut are there in Maldives?”
So, throughout the walking tour, I kept on looking up to observe the [...]
Our resort offers various excursions — picnic on a deserted island, a romantic night in a hut on a deserted island, trip to a local village (which we did), an evening with a Maldivian family, sunset dinners at the lagoon…etc. The one excursion I enjoyed the most, and will definitely remember forever, is traditional Maldivian line fishing [...]
The story goes like this. The resort publishes a newsletter everyday, containing news of what’s going on on the island. I believe it was our first night there, there’s a heading in the newsletter that read “Come be the guests of Mr. & Mrs. Miyake”. It turns out that there was a “traditional Maldivian-style” wedding next [...]
I am one of the fortunate ones that have travelled to many places in the world, but still, no vacation was as relaxed and luxurious like this one.
Our daily routine was something like this:
wake up whenever we felt like it.
watched the waves at “our beach”, go go snorkeling in glorious water.
yummy breakfast at the main [...]
There it is, Coco Palm Resort at Dhuni Kolhu from the air. Out of hundreds of resort islands in Maldives, it was such a great decision to stay there. It’s farther away from the busier, party resort islands, and it’s covered by white sand, surrounded by calm, warm, unbelievablyblue and clear water, and offers awesome water sport activties. [...]
This is going to be a picture intense, show and tell entry, because there’s that much good stuff to see.
May 30th marked our first day in Maldives. We woke up early that morning to catch the ferry to the airport island, then to the domestic airport for an seaplane to our resort island. The domestic [...]
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