Thursday, March 12, 2009

Kuramathi, Maldives 4 Mar - 11 Mar 2009

Honeymoon trip!

These tags are courtesy of my mom for Christmas ;)
We traveled to the Maldives for our honeymoon – we stayed on the island of Kuramathi, which has 3 resorts, and the one we stayed at was called the Blue Lagoon resort. We first arrived in Male, found our resort booth and had to wait for a bit before we were ushered to the speedboat which took us to our island. The Maldives is made up of so many islands that you have to either get to your island by boat or seaplane. After an hour and a half boat ride (or nap) we arrived at what can only be described as paradise. It was absolutely breathtaking, it looked like something out of a movie, some desert island that has been tucked away that no one knows about. Once we arrived, we were given fresh juice, had to fill out an information card and then taken to our part of the island. The island was barely 1 mile long and yet you felt at times as though you were the only people on it. We were taken to our cute beach bungalow, 335, set down our things and then headed to lunch. We were on the all-inclusive plan which means our meals (at our main restaurant), all drinks (non and alcoholic) and 2 excursions were included. So we headed out to our restaurant and were given “our” table, 46 – similar to being on a cruise but you don’t have to talk to people. Then we just went exploring on the island, finding the bar area, walking down the sandbank, etc. Later that night, we met a guy named Simon from London, who was there with his family, and his dad Graham who had his Ipod speakers and we jammed out and unfortunately Graham lasted longer than we did, as he did most every night.Don’t worry – I won’t recap our entire trip day by day because basically they all included sun, food, drinks and relaxing :)

Two of the excursions which were included on our trip were the shopping trip to the neighboring island of Rashdoo. It was about a 15 minute boat ride, with an island basically full of souvenir shops, so obviously our island takes care of this island, but oh well. We bought a few things and then got back onto the boat to Kuramathi. The next day we had our sunset cruise which was just us and 20 of our best friends riding a boat around the islands watching the sunset, drinking sparkling wine. Perfection.

Our last night was the best night, we booked a couple's massage on the open air pavillion which was amazing and the entire spa was great. The package came with henna tattoos which Chris declined immediately and so I got 2. Haha. Then we ate at the Laguna Grill and enjoyed a bottle of wine, jumbo prawns and the crabs running along the beach.
We had to spend one night in Male because our flight was so early and that wasn't nearly as nice as our island resort, but the things you gotta do :)

In any case, the Maldives was the perfect honeymoon spot - incredibly relaxing, romantic and beautiful.