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I seem to always slow down on my posts when a year comes to its end. This was true last year, but it’s especially bad this year. By now there are 4 trips that I haven’t written a word about, plus loads of other going - ons that went un-documented.
Oh well, this means I am living [...]
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 [...]
When John and I began to discuss our honeymoon plans, I gave him two criteria to consider. 1. It must be a place where either of us have been to before. 2. I’d like to see white sand!!!
A few months later, he came up with “Maldives”. What a genius!
There was this travel show that I [...]
That afternoon felt very short. After visiting the Jurong Bird Park in the morning, we had to rush back to the hotel to check out, plus squeeze in a quick shower before returning the room key because we had been sweating non-stop all morning long! It was so hot and humid!
I grew up in Taiwan, [...]
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