We are extremely lucky to have gone to Maldives again this year. We went to the same resort, the Angsana Velavaru, that we did last year and had a week of relaxation, diving, and good food. The food was even good for me since we worked with the food and beverage manager and they flew in ingredients (like tofu) to get me yummy, high protein options.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Our Lovely Room
The Scene at the Resort
So picture perfect that you can really not put into words. It might just be the most beautiful place on earth. Tragedy that global warming will probably ruin this place.
Personal pool
Our amazing room
View from our room
The beach outside our room
Our room from the ocean
The Scene at the Resort
So picture perfect that you can really not put into words. It might just be the most beautiful place on earth. Tragedy that global warming will probably ruin this place.
Eco-Friendly!
One of the reasons we chose this resort (in addition to it being just absolutely beautiful) is its commitment to eco-friendly practices. The have a well staffed marine biology center that does talks about coral and fish life as well as environmental practices. They also do a lot of coral planting-and let Sandip and I accompany! One day we did it in the lagoon (about 1.5 metres down) one day we did cage planting about 8 meters down. So enjoy the pics of the eco-warriors!
This is the shallow planting. You put a cement ball on the structure, then shove the coral into it. It is murky because we kept kicking up sand and the cement balls were coming undone a bit.
Getting ready to plant coral on the cages. The staff at the marine center kept telling me I didn't need the wetsuit because it is not that cold. I was like-yes but I am white and need the sun protection.
And it was cold.
So this is us putting on coral using zipties. They will come through later and snip the plastic down.
This gives you a great sense of what we were doing.
View of Sandip
Night feeding the rays
The marine biologist
Baby black tip reef shark who showed up for the feeding.
Dolphins racing the dive boat
Us, enjoying ourselves
Our favorite lunch spot. Love the hat.
Amazing ice cream drink called "Banana Boat" so yummy and worthy of being named after my niece!
Dogball and duck outside the dive center
Goodbye Maldives
The kids loved your message :) I didn't realize you did that ... thanks for all the awesome pictures, kids loved them too.
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