We’ve just left the capital island of Gaafu Dhaalu, Thinadhoo, after having spent five days there (staying in the house used in the Fathis Handhuvaru film, which should mean something to fans of Dhivehi cinema). Thinadhoo is by far the […]
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After five days in the atoll capital, we caught a couple of launches, and one top-heavy motorbike, to the airport island of Kaadedhdhoo and then onto Madaveli. What with the short distance and regular ferries, this one wasn’t a tough […]
We left behind the quiet island of Dhevvadhoo on Saturday, and with it the last we’ll see of the Gaafu Alif group for a while…unless we left a charger or something (always the way, isn’t it?). Only just found time […]
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 […]
We left Gaafu Alif Dhevvadhoo at 9am this morning, heading west into Gaafu Dhaalu. The captain didn’t make an announcement or anything, but we’re pretty sure we saw the ocean change colour slightly on the border. Soon we slid past […]
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 […]
