let's go explore malos the perfect place to swim with manta rays and maldives
this is maalhos one of the most beautiful local islands
it's relatively new to local tourism so it's really really gorgeous
so i've had my coconut let's go see the room maldives isn't like any other country it requires
careful planning especially if you're going to the local islands so i would definitely recommend
you check out my maldives guide and how to plan your maldives holiday videos the link is above
so this is located in baton near the unesco world biosphere protected area and there's tons
to do here the island is quite small as usual with maldives and it's barely a kilometer long
but it's really really interesting so there's tons to do here some really amazing epic things
so i'll show you around and let's see what we can do if you haven't already do check
out my maldives video because it will help you massively with planning a perfect trip
good morning it's my first day in maalhos and we are going for scuba diving this is a spot to
come if you want to go diving or if you want to learn swimming or they also have yoga retreats
and massage and whatnot so i'll give the links you can check that in description
and let's go have some fun underwater it's really hot by the way don't forget to bring
your insect repellent a lot of sunscreen it's crazy here honestly especially insect repellent
it's a lot of mosquitoes and they will bite you crazy like they did to me last night
while we prep we have a friend to play with but he's sleeping
my host has a beautiful bikini beach which is facing right the sunset but
i really like this pier because you can see the entire stretch just look at that
it's on fire honestly look at that wow doesn't this look kind of like
a film poster where everything's going to * in the background
this place is gorgeous honestly beyond belief
food in maalhos is quite simple and absolutely delicious there's only one cafe which is
located right next to the pier and they do some amazing amazing food and another great
idea is to basically speak to your guest house and arrange someone local so you can go in their house
and eat the local food with them i unfortunately couldn't do it because of kovet but i got the food
delivered to me and i absolutely loved it i left a day to explore the island a little bit more which
is really gorgeous it is fairly small like most maldivian islands but not as small as fulidhoo
it's still fairly small you can walk from one end to the other end in like 15 20 minutes there are
only three guest houses so far i'm staying in madi finolhu the other two are not open
getting here is a little complicated you can take the domestic flight to their awandu and then do a
boat transfer but there is also a ferry uh which we took my friends and i from male it came to
eydhafushi island and from there we just took like a small speedboat transfer it was about 50 dollars
one way per person i really like this island for a few reasons one the hanifaru bay of course when
the season is right like the monsoon season there are tons of manta rays here which i am hoping to
see later there's a bikini beach here as well of course which is right at the perfect spot to see
the sunset there's a quite a few resorts around here as well if you want to travel there for
a day or a spa day or something i can't do that unfortunately at the moment don't forget there are
tons of beautiful beaches there i mean the beach outside my guest house is absolutely stunning
but the reason i really like this island is because it has a nice
little forest at the back there's a beach that opens up on the other side
this is completely uninhabited you can just go chill on your own have fun
i'm gonna just do that and i will show you what else you can do around here
at the end of the jungle there's a beautiful beach well there's no one at all so while this
is not a bikini beach i can still take my shirt off which i'm really happy about yay i always
wanted to do yoga on a beautiful beach and this place is just the right amount of serene for that
there's a beautiful uninhabited island right across from maalhos
but if you don't want to make the effort you just get to a maldivian hammock and just chill out
so
maalhos has a beautiful house reef much better than fulidhoo or kamadhoo that i've seen there's tons to
see here and the best is you can see turtles i went in the morning today to snorkel it was the
most heartwarming experience because the turtle who say life i saved i saw him swimming right
in front of me he still had the hook in his mouth but they will remove it later but it was just so
incredible to see that he was doing so well and a part of me thinks that he actually recognized me
because he didn't really go too far when i tried to get close but it was just an incredible
experience i also saw an amazing house reef sorry a reef shark a black tip and also a bunch of
cuttlefish a huge parrotfish and tons more it's just no day in the sea is like the one you had
before and it will never be like the one you will have next and there's always so much drama going
on it's just incredible oh so i'm gonna go take a shower have some breakfast and just you know
relax a bit i feel so good it just it just feels really really heartwarming i'm really really
proud of myself by the way if you haven't seen the footage you can check it here another must-do
in maalhos or any other island in maldives is a sandbank and this one was just absolutely perfect
it's really fun to explore the local side of maalhos and see how people live here and
the best thing is it's all made of sand all the streets so you can just go bare feet everywhere
i absolutely loved it a gorgeous day after five days of crazy rain we're going to hanifaru bay
to potentially see some manta rays my friends bought it the first whale shark of the season so
i'm really happy and excited it's my last couple of days here and i really hope they
are as amazing as the rest of the trip so let's see if we get to see some let's go
you know how i usually say this place is incredible or gorgeous
so this experience was amazing this was out of this world honestly this is hanifaru bay
and i just started the manta rays there were so many of them it was incredible
i just got back took a shower and i'm honestly in a bit of a state of
disbelief that i actually got to swim with the mantas if you want to do this um you
need to work with the guys at maldivers at maalhos a huge shout out to kate and dhaanu
especially for teaching me to swim so i could have this amazing experience on my own
and if you want to do this as well the best time to do it is late may onwards for a couple
of months this is low season for maldives but it's actually high season for baa atoll
so what do you guys think of maalhos is it the perfect place if you want to come to
maldives do let me know in comments and i will see you guys in the next video
i would definitely recommend you check out more of my maldives video for some
more travel inspiration until the next video you have an amazing day ahead