TRAVEL BLOG November 28th, 2021 - MALDIVES

 


11/28/21- Woke up to a beautiful sun rise, feeling extremely fortunate and thankful that a place like this exists in the world. We eat breakfast, have a cappuccino by the water and enjoy the walk around the island. We check on the snorkeling excursion and find that they have it every day at 10am and 3pm, no reservations needed. We’ll definitely look to do that tomorrow.

Back in our room, we do a little snorkeling of our own with our new full-face masks to try them out. The 80 degree water was chilly at first, but soon felt very comfortable as we saw several types of fish in the shallow coral. We also use this time to see how our GoPro camera works mounted to the mask.

We shower again, as this seems like a daily routine due to the high humidity, take a video of our room (which we accidentally locked ourselves out and had to flag down the houseboy) and hit up the lunch buffet. The food here is amazing as they have many choices available, but we are careful not to overeat by only getting small portions here and there. Don’t want to fall into a food coma.

On our way back, we enjoy the beach swing and grab some snorkel fins from the dive shop. Barely making it to our room, our bodies are exhausted, so we take a short nap. This humidity is frizzing our hair, which I don’t mind as I have good beach hair anyway.

Dinner time comes around and I have the roast duck, and afterwards we play some darts before retreating for the night. We didn’t do much today, as that’s the point, but we still feel wore out. We did look into the messages they offer but were turned off by the prices. $122 for a foot massage seems pretty outrageous.

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