The Trip to Maldives

Feature Article About A Travel-3

Zhou Weiwei (Business School, 2nd Year, China)

  My wife and I took a one week of our summer break to go to Maldives.
  Maldives is not fairly known in Japan. But in my country, China, it is known as the heaven for tourists and it is also a place any new brides would want to go as their honeymoon.
  Maldives is an island nation made up of 1,198 islands in the Indiana Ocean located in the southwest of Sri Lanka. Maldives, a beautiful island known for long time as “the pearl necklace,” is now popular for the luxurious resorts. The basic styles of these kinds of resorts are one island per one resort with private spaces. Fundamentally, in Maldives, one hotel equals one island. With that, many people who come to visit Maldives use their time mainly to relax at their hotels rather than traveling around to certain places. Male is the smallest capital in the world, and it is located at the southern edge of North Male Atoll. Here, you can see what the people’s lifestyle is like.
  We found an inexpensive Maldives Tour from a Chinese Tour Company. We traveled by plane from Taiwan to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and with 12 hours of flight, we finally reached to the capital Male in Maldives. When we arrived at Male, it was already 3 in the afternoon. However, Icouldn’t waitto see the beautiful ocean view on the next day, because I have only seenit on television when I was a child. I was so thrilled that I didn’t feel tired at all from the 12 hours of plane ride. In the Exist of the Male airport, staffs from “ANGSANA IHURU” a hotel we registered, came to pick us up. From the Male airport, we rode a small boat and headed to our hotel. Four staffs came to assist us, but there were only two of us as their customers. I felt really good by being assisted by so many staffs. In the dark, the small boat continued to drive forward. After 25 minutes, we reached our hotel. A woman welcomed us inside and as I looked at her, she was a Japanese name “Kana-chan.” I asked what she was doing in Maldives, and she said she is attending a special training school for Switzerland hotels and was sent to Maldives for her internship.
  We checked in our hotel, and were escorted to our room. The room had a hot spring bath and when we opened the door on the backside of the room, there was a deck chair and a hammock. Also the backyard was filled with palm trees and tropical plants along with the beach right in front of us.
  Anywhere around the area, except for bars and restaurants, there were no internet connections or televisions. This was a way for people to forget about the busy everyday lives and enjoy the soothing time on the island.
  When we finished eating breakfast, we started our first day out at Maldives. In the morning, the water temperature was relatively high, so many divers went out to the sea after their morning breakfast. There were magnificent corals, and various shapes and sizes of fish swimming around the sea. I was deeply moved by watching them. After diving for three days, I could get close to a sea turtle and a shark. I felt really scared when I noticed a shark, twice as big as my height, was swimming 50 meters below where I was. A cold sweat ran down my spine when I noticed it. We went back to our room, after going diving, and took a shower. But because the ocean was so beautiful like anything Ihave ever seen before, I went back there again three or four times and took a shower every time I came out from diving.
  During the afternoon, we took a five minute ride on a boat to go to an affiliated resort called “VABBINFARU” run by “BANYAN TREE,” the same enterprise hotel of a major company. We saw a show of people giving out foods to sharks. We gave out foods ourselves to the parrots that flew from the forest. We really enjoyed our time out in nature.
  At night, we gathered around a dining table and enjoyed our foods and excellent sake while we watched the musical show. We had a very wonderful day.

At Vabbinfaru Island