I think he is about to fly!
Oh no! Oh! (ohhhh!... laughing)
Why would you do that?
This is our last day in Maldives and of course we're pretty sad about it. But, today we would
like to share with you (the) five most interesting things that we learned from the Maldivians,
as we are taking you along with us, to show you how we spend our regular day
on a Maldives island. So. let's go get breakfast now.
So, we had our breakfast every day at the same spot,
but thankfully they had a ton of variety from Western to Asian and even some Maldivian food.
One of the first things we learned was about Maldivian food during our time here, and we
actually were able to experience a Maldivian food day; the two things that stood out the most
though are the coconut trees, they're some of the tallest in the entire world and they make a whole
host of foods. Their rice is coconut-based and they actually have a drink that comes from the
sap of a coconut tree, so they really make use of it. As well as, of course, the Maldives is 90 percent
ocean. So, fishing is king here in the Maldives and tuna is their number one source of fish.
We had a lot of that with our Maldivian food and really enjoy that because i like tuna a lot.
So one way to go island to island, of course, is by buggy or golf cart. Today Gok and I are
taking the dhoni or the ferry across between the two islands here at the Conrad.
The scenery is amazing obviously. The blue is like... surreal blue here!
We really didn't get an opportunity to take advantage of all the activities on the island,
but since it was our last day we were hoping to make everything count. All of the non-motorized
water activities here are complementary at the Conrad Maldives, so today we're going to do what we did
best in Turkey and that's take a paddle boat out onto the water. Gokce's already helping him.
We recommend the safety area (okay) to stay in.
Where is the safety area?
So, it's on the left side of the bridge. On the right side of the pole and in between these two islands.
You can go all the way to that island beach as well. (okay)
Oh, that's where I parked my boat (laughing).
No, that's ours as well, that's the glass bottom boat.
Oh wow, pedals are burning! I can't even put my feet on they're so hot!
There's actually 1,200 islands in the Maldives in total. Over 90 percent of it is just purely
water and the average altitude or height above sea level for the Maldives is one and a half meters
in total. So, it's really the flattest country in the entire world. Only about 200 of the islands
are inhabited others are resorts like this one, or they're just there for agriculture or other
activities. Pretty cool stuff, huh?
Hoping to see some sharks today, the ones that don't bite (human).
So this is fun, but we will like to do snorkeling because
Snorkeling is kind of the number one thing to do here.
It is fun to look at the water from above, but it is more fun to be inside.
Thank You!
Are they good?
I think so (okay).
So we came over here to snorkel after picking up our own equipment for free at the dive center,
but Gokce of course has decided she wants to play with these birds here over on this side of the beach.
I like snorkeling, I did it all my life. But, here i'm extra excited because
the fish species that you don't see anywhere else. I'm very excited to see what else is down there.
Our time here is almost over, so we have to go and return our little
backpack of snorkeling equipment. Seven days went by very very quickly.
Now we're gonna go to the happy hour, but before we get there we want to talk to you
about the climate in the Maldives. Maldives has two seasons dry or monsoon season.
It is dry from October to April and during the monsoon season, it doesn't get very heavy storms.
We have the breakfast and the happy hour at the same place.
We had another option for breakfast, but we love the scenery from here.
So since we've been here for seven days, we became really good friends with the staff
and now the bartender here is actually making us some special drink. We're very much looking
forward to it. They are so nice and we heard that a lot of people come back to this island
for the people and now we can see clearly why.
We love having the happy hour right
here on the beach with delicious little snacks and uh amazing scenery.
Sadly, after happy hour it was time to pack and leave. Alcohol is actually forbidden here outside
of the resorts. So, you cannot actually bring alcohol into the Maldives either. They'll get that
confiscated at customs on the way in. But, before they were a Muslim country they were actually a
Buddhist country and there's even some Buddhist shrines that you could still find on some of the
other atolls here in the Maldives. I guess we'll have to come back and check them out another time.
Bye room, bye beautiful heaven, take care.
We're waiting for our seaplane right now, they say it's going to be on time which is a rare occasion,
because a lot of times sea planes are 15 to 20 minutes late. And we're gonna stop by
another island before we get to Male. Male is the biggest island in Maldives, for about 150,000 (140,000 really)
people live there. And the total population of Maldives is at 550,000 (540,000 really). Some islands are as little
as 100 to 200 people. And from north to south over a thousand islands can have different dialects and
different kind of traditions. From food to wedding to everything. It was such a great experience to
learn about the people from different kinds of islands and hearing their perspective of the Maldives culture.
Jamie was (with us) all along during our adventure here and we had
such a great time thank you so much for everything.
We'll be ready so welcome back again.
Holy cow! We just hit the lottery, they just gave us...
It's hot here, hot! yes
Yes, today very hot.