Well, here is the post you’ve all been waiting for. Yep, that’s right, we’ve built up the nerve and finally taken on the controversial issue of millet! It’s not everyday that we come across someone doing something we’ve not seen […]
Laamu Gan’s Bodu Fenganda is one of the first places you’ll be taken to when you visit the island, and it’s definitely a thought-provoking site. We’ve been a couple of times since we got here a week ago, though admittedly […]
Here are five of our favourite pictures from our first week in Laamu Gan & Fonadhoo (Kadhdhoo and Maandhoo). Full gallery with captions
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- Island hospitality, and island cuisine, are always the highlights of our blog trips – like this street barbecue we were invited to in Fonadhoo. (Photo: Dan)
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- Bigger islands like Gan, the longest in the Maldives, gives room for the bondu to get bodu. (Photography: Naj)
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- Location scouting, taking a look (and a look and a look) over to the ‘Star Wars’ island of Baresdhoo. (Photography: Naj)
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- The concrete ribbon of the new link road has changed the pace of life in the atoll; seen here snaking from Gan down into Maandhoo. (Photography: Naj)
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- Despite these many changes, the connection with the ocean remains strong. (Photography: Naj)
One week into our Laamu trip and we’re learning that this is an atoll where the roads are long, the people say ‘kon heneh?’, and the riha comes with golha in it! We’ve mostly been shuttling up and down the […]
(Answer: they all start with ‘Laamu’). So, we’ve finally made it up to Laamu atoll for the next leg of the Two Thousand Isles trip. (Well, up to Male’ from Addu and back down…you know how the flights go). We […]
2k Journal: Chasing Coral Film (2017)
After watching the Netflix documentary ‘Chasing Coral’ this week, we felt we had to do a quick post to urge you all to do the same. Anyone who’s spent any time in the Maldives will have seen a lot of […]
A few people have been asking us what we’ve been up to recently, and we’re hoping to get back on the ‘road’ before the end of the year, but in the meantime, here’s a couple of updates on where the […]
A friend this week told us that he’d just seen one of Dan’s stories on Himal Southasian, which seemed odd as the last story he wrote for them was almost two years ago, just before the publication was unfortunately forced […]
It’s not every day you get a surprise delivery from one of your inspirations…especially not down in the Suvadive!! Nils Finn Munch-Petersen has been kind enough to send us a copy of his 1980 publication on the Maldives, put […]
2k Journal: The Southern Heart of Maldives
Great to see this video, by Ahmed Shan, celebrating the sun, sea, and stories of Addu – our atoll home, and the southern heart of Maldives. Dan was happy to help with the film’s script, which also tied in with […]
Lot of sitting around to get this picture, but not a bad place to do it. The guys from the Muraka guest house, on Vaavu Keyodhoo, took us out to see the local wreck, you know – the one off […]
A really nice article on Two Thousand Isles’ origins, and a bit of an introduction to the project for an overseas audience. Omkar has done his time in Male’s mean streets but retains a strong interest in all things Maldives […]
This week we found ourselves on Baa’s tiny island of Fehendhoo – home of the Maldives’ most famous marooned mariner. Francois Pyrard and his shipmates spent a few tough weeks in ‘paradise’ on this island and Fulhadhoo, next door, in […]
Story number three in our guest house section is, fittingly, the recently-opened ‘Wave Sound’ by 3S in Addu’s Maradhoofeydhoo area. Though this one is close to home for us, it’s really like stepping into another world entirely – a mini-resort […]
After being advised to time our visit to Gaddhoo to coincide with their Eid al-fitr celebrations, we’ve been sitting on these pics for a few months. Looking for anything that seemed vaguely timely and along came Guy Fawkes night this […]
With the South Asian Travel Awards 2017 taking place this weekend in Addu’s Equator Village, we thought it would be the perfect time to hold an exhibition of Naj’s work, celebrating the best of Addu for all the people visiting. […]
The libaas story is more or less obligatory for any website covering Maldivian culture, so here’s our offering (finally). Now we just need to do the lacquerwork story and maybe something about rihaakuru and we’ll be just about done here. (Not really…there’s […]
Here’s another one we’ve been sitting on since our visit to Huvadhu (and sitting on hooks for too long isn’t wise). So, we just got off it and here’s what hatched. When traveling round the atoll we hadn’t realised just […]
Just when you think you’ve heard of everything written about the Maldives (in English, at least) you discover something new. Hammond Innes’ 1965 novel – The Strode Venturer – partly set in Addu, strongly suggested the English author had been […]
Sparked by a picture spotted in Suvadive Cafe, here in Addu, more people than we expected remembered being unibrow-ed as kids. We soon got hold of the original images and found our own victim model to recreate this joined eyebrow […]
