The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. – Wyland
For a beach-lover family like us, Maldives is paradise! Fine, white beach, beautiful Indian Ocean! Two weeks of magical surreal days in this country did stir our hearts, inspired our imagination and brought eternal joy to the soul. Wyland articulated quite clearly what we got from the Indian Ocean!
We stayed in a private island for five nights at Gangehi Island and needed to take the seaplane to and from Male. The sea plane ride is the attraction! Such experience to look down at the Indian Ocean and see clearly the deep blue sea, dolphins diving out from oxygen, spurts of water we can only assume from whales! Riding on sea plane, landing straight on the deep, blue Indian Ocean, we can always feel that euphoria when the wind blew our hair and we step out of the sea plane! Such a dream-like experience, the kids were shouting out with glee!
Snorkeling and swimming in the Indian Ocean, watching sunrise and sunset, enjoying our water villa, chasing wild terns and herons by the beach just in front of our private villa, running around in the white, pristine-like sand, the rain showers almost every hour all throughout the day, the sea breeze, the magnificent view. Such relaxing moments and memorable family bonding times, priceless!
Exploring the city of Male and the nearby beaches is also a paradise in itself- even better because most of the beaches are free! Public transportation are boat, not buses. Kinda like Venice with their water taxis, but hey, we’ve been to Venice and with the ocean adventure, we’ll pick Maldives over the City of Venice anytime. Seriously. We did claim we are beach-lover bunch!
Oh, how we love to come back again to the Indian Ocean! We intend to. When our youngest will be old enough to dive with us, we will dive the Indian Ocean together as family. Because we don’t live only once. We live every day! When one milestones is ticked off the bucket list, another wish is added, milestones to look forward to. We believe, it is not by accident that people are surrounded by bodies of water. Ocean makes us feel the life more, empowers us to live, not once, but every day!
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Oohh….Maldives! Thanks for sharing this one! One of the places that is really picture perfect. I admire your family for being able to set an objective of travelling to 100 countries before your kids reach 18. Good luck on your next adventure and do continue to share your journey with us. Kudos!
Thank you Lindsay! Maldives is really an awesome experience for the family. We are a family of dreamers and our travel goals keep us jumping out of bed every morning. After all, dreaming is free and very effective 😍😍.
Wow, that is a gorgeous place! This is the first time I’ve stumbled across your blog and I’ll definitely be back to read more about your travels and homeschooling. (I loved the post about how it’s okay not to like travelling. That one fits me.)
Oh wow that looks like iut was so.mych fun, I haven’t been able to travel to that part of the globe yet but it is so on my list. enjoy.
Absolutely breathtaking! And what an adventure!