Darren recently spent five nights in the Maldives, hopping between islands to check out the facilities on offer, and generally doing very little in the Indian Ocean sun – he’d call it hard work but we know better!
“I’d be the first to admit that the Maldives isn’t the kind of destination I’d normally go for, as I tend to like getting out and about, exploring local places and eating in different restaurants when I’m on holiday. However, after a few days here, I’m smitten! I’m amazed just how easy I found it to do absolutely nothing, and I’m already planning a return trip.
Take somewhere like Kuramathi Island, for example – three resorts on one island stretching over 2 kilometres, with some shared facilities and enough going on to keep me entertained, but plenty of space to chill out. After a leisurely breakfast we set off to the tip of the island, not really realising that we’d be covering the entire 2 km to get there! At the tip of the island is a sand bar that stretches off in to the distance – picture postcard stuff, with the bluest sea imaginable lapping the sand bar and the clearest sky above. We spent a few minutes taking it all in, paddling in the sea and lying on the sand, before heading in to some shade – the sun in this part of the world is very intense!
Next in our active day of doing very little was snorkelling – had we been more energetic diving was on offer, but that would have meant we actually had to do something, and I was getting in to the whole theory of doing very little surprisingly well! The snorkelling in the Maldives is superb – straight off the beach and you’re immersed in another world. As with many islands, Kuramathi has a large lagoon that’s ideal for snorkelling, and at the edge of this is a wall of coral where the sea suddenly deepens. The reef sharks kind of put me off getting too close, although it did seem a little like hard work to get there.
After all that activity it was time to relax, so I took a good book and sat on my balcony, chilling out. Later in the afternoon, a shoal of stingray come to the shore to be fed, while herons look on and tease the fish – or maybe the fish tease the herons, it’s hard to say! And there’s only one way to finish off such a relaxing day of doing very little – in the bar, with a cool beer. Here, though, the bar is on the beach, with bean bags dotted across the sand. Heaven!”
Check out Darren’s photo gallery at http://www.farawayescapes.co.uk/gallery/Escape%20Worldwide%20Maldives%20Photo%20Gallery/
For more details of holidays to the Maldives visit http://www.escapeworldwide.co.uk/ind/destin/mle.shtml
“I’d be the first to admit that the Maldives isn’t the kind of destination I’d normally go for, as I tend to like getting out and about, exploring local places and eating in different restaurants when I’m on holiday. However, after a few days here, I’m smitten! I’m amazed just how easy I found it to do absolutely nothing, and I’m already planning a return trip.
Take somewhere like Kuramathi Island, for example – three resorts on one island stretching over 2 kilometres, with some shared facilities and enough going on to keep me entertained, but plenty of space to chill out. After a leisurely breakfast we set off to the tip of the island, not really realising that we’d be covering the entire 2 km to get there! At the tip of the island is a sand bar that stretches off in to the distance – picture postcard stuff, with the bluest sea imaginable lapping the sand bar and the clearest sky above. We spent a few minutes taking it all in, paddling in the sea and lying on the sand, before heading in to some shade – the sun in this part of the world is very intense!
Next in our active day of doing very little was snorkelling – had we been more energetic diving was on offer, but that would have meant we actually had to do something, and I was getting in to the whole theory of doing very little surprisingly well! The snorkelling in the Maldives is superb – straight off the beach and you’re immersed in another world. As with many islands, Kuramathi has a large lagoon that’s ideal for snorkelling, and at the edge of this is a wall of coral where the sea suddenly deepens. The reef sharks kind of put me off getting too close, although it did seem a little like hard work to get there.
After all that activity it was time to relax, so I took a good book and sat on my balcony, chilling out. Later in the afternoon, a shoal of stingray come to the shore to be fed, while herons look on and tease the fish – or maybe the fish tease the herons, it’s hard to say! And there’s only one way to finish off such a relaxing day of doing very little – in the bar, with a cool beer. Here, though, the bar is on the beach, with bean bags dotted across the sand. Heaven!”
Check out Darren’s photo gallery at http://www.farawayescapes.co.uk/gallery/Escape%20Worldwide%20Maldives%20Photo%20Gallery/
For more details of holidays to the Maldives visit http://www.escapeworldwide.co.uk/ind/destin/mle.shtml
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