Six weeks after we left Addu, we’ve been to ten inhabited islands and maybe the same number of uninhabited. The longest time spent was on Fuvahmulah – two weeks – while the shortest was on Gaafu Alif Kondey, were we […]
Category Archives: Gaafu Alif
We heard the news this week that President Trump had decided to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change while we were in Gaafu Alif Dhevvadhoo: The idea that the great-grandchildren of the kids we meet on […]
Gaaf Alif’s Maafushi island is another one of those, like Villingili, whose name is more often associated with somewhere closer to the capital. But Huvadhu’s edition struck out on its own long before it’s cousin in Kaafu became famous as […]
After the usual will-we-won’t-we on Kolamaafushi harbour early this morning, the ferry captain decided that yesterday’s wild winds had calmed and we would head to Dhevvadhoo. (…via Villingili, Koodoo, and Maamendhoo, but we’ve taken mercy on our little map…and if […]
Maldivians have a phrase that covers any activity designed to stave off the boredom and hunger that comes during daylight fasting – roadha kuru kurun (shorten the fast). Today, our friends in Kolamaafushi invited us to shorten the fast by […]
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- Photography: Naj
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- Photography: Naj
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- Photography: Naj
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- Photography: Naj
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- Photography: Naj
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- Photography: Naj
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- Photography: Naj
Having started the year in Villimale’ and visited Shangri La resort before now (well, one of us has), this was our third Villingili. There’s two more in the neighbourhood, both still awaiting inhabitation in Alif Dhaal and Lakshwadeep. This one […]
Our three days in the atoll capital, Villingili, ended this afternoon as we grabbed the ferry across the lagoon to Kolamaafushi. The three-hour round trip via Koodoo and Devvadhoo soon became two as only one person wanted to go to […]
This week’s final preparations for ramadan gave the chance to think about the generosity of our hosts over the past month. Ramadan is the right time of year to build good habits and to reconsider bad ones. (How much coffee […]
