could this be the most beautiful island in the world whenever i'd asked people what
their favorite island was everyone told me like with stars in their eyes that it was malpiti
i've asked so many people and i keep hearing the same thing malpiti malpiti malpiti so for
the next week we're exploring this beautiful island to see if it really lives up to the hype
that must be the most beautiful introduction to anywhere ever
our journey begins at pension arifa'a at the home of papa lui
in his home he built himself it's a true work of art with coral floors
incorporating trinkets that tell a story of a life beautifully lived traveling the world hitchhiking
along the way and collecting little souvenirs as he went everywhere i looked i was inspired
as we explored we had special little dog guides that showed us the island this place comes with
a guide dog who shows you where the beach is and now is taking us somewhere else i love it
someone is very excited to go to the beach hello friends oh my gosh
what is this is this a little bar what like that
look at this little booth is this the stage
i had no idea that our airbnb would have so many layers this is so cool our guides are back
this is pure magic oh my gosh this is seriously the best island ever
that afternoon jen and i sat out on the dock for hours until the sun set we had no internet nowhere
else to be just chilling out on the dock escaping the mosquitoes and watching the world go by
time stopped mattering and life felt long for a moment like there was ample time for this
like it was a day perfectly spent
good morning this island is really so magical i almost wonder if i even want to share about it
it's just so beautiful the people are so lovely the food has been amazing this fish though and
it's only been one day so far so this morning we're going to go out and see if we can find
some manta rays because apart from the beautiful
beaches that's one of the things that people do here and i love manta rays
so
do you think the island is really awesome i really do but the barbecue thing included
with the manta tour there's so many people it's kind of my worst nightmare
okay food procured
let's see let's give it a try
she's super cute
it's too big to open her eyes
so hard to leave i don't want to leave i don't really want to leave either maybe
the next place will be awesome too though we'll see leaving olivia and
papa louie was difficult but we knew that we had more adventures on the horizon as
we headed to malpete's main island to a new accommodation the malpiti residence
this is huge
it's huge for two i love it though not bad
when i was researching the island i came across something called the shell house
google reviews left very little to go by and i'm honestly glad that people didn't ruin the surprise
this is aki the eccentric creator and as we would later find out jen's new love
just kidding but really aki has spent decades meticulously creating
this castle with shelves from the island which it has an abundance
this is his assistant
his name is german he ate a german sherman from yemen and he's also a prolific musical artists
double romantic
dublo romantic song
we caught shellfish with him all right
yeah yeah okay
very crunchy but the taste is nice but i'm going to keep going actually
learned his stories with our broken french
sing songs we've made new hats and left feeling like we got one of the coolest experiences on
the island he's adding antennae and now this is becoming a wi-fi hat chapel roll around
which is saying a lot because it had been amazing but there was more to come
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all right back to the video oh [ __ ] this looks steep very excited to be finally doing
the trek on our last day to a symphony of roosters and we just started and i'm not
breathing hard you are it's also not the exact middle of the day or anything i think
it's 12 noon on the dot okay but we're seeing this two minutes in that's awesome all right
we already made a round turn so that bodes well but there's a little tiny tiny arrow right here
that we just missed okay this looks like a trail should take two there's mangoes everywhere
everywhere the mangoes on this island are so good as well
all climbing right not rock climbing but scrambling yes with no hands cause i'm filming
and i have a water bottle
oh
my god what what what
this the nice viewpoint first one but i have the map on me i still have a very long way to go
can you see how sweaty i am oh my gosh this is really just straight up but
map stop me tells me i only have a third of a mile left okay then
we did it
i'm a nice combo of sweat mud and blood
and sunscreen because that's useful yeah it started raining when we were up there and
this whole hike i was like it would be kind of treacherous if it were slippery on the way down
which is what we're experiencing now and it is treacherous if it's wet slippery when wet
how does it feel now that you're probably not gonna die awesome
at the end of it all i completely agree with everyone who said that malpiti was one of the
most beautiful islands in the world of course it's not perfect water is hard to come by
people live off the land because they have to a supply ship comes every fortnight if that
and you've got to be tough as nails to live here our daily workout
it's real-life mario kart and toadstool yes my dreams are coming
that glittering lagoon is beautiful and the ocean here gives so much it's been a privilege to
experience it and maybe just maybe we're going to be here for even longer than we bargained
a little bit of drama today the aeropuerto is over there and uh it can't land if it's even cloudy
because there's no electricity at the airport and so if it's raining they don't have light to land
we're just gonna go and hope it works out because we're supposed to go to bora bora today
so cross your fingers and your toes please that was graceful