Dawn Rising Sun

After back from the Maldives, I spent sometime to finish my travel journal to the Maldives, it was an enjoyable time for completing my journal, I think it at least could be a reference for someone who plans to visit to Maldives. Maldives travel journey is the second travel dairy that I felt proud of and the first one is my Las Vegas travel dairy, which also included a lot of our details. I actually like to do research and write down all my travel experience but I don't really always have time for that, therefore I have a lot of travel experience just keep in memory and cannot turn them into word. Then, I told SL if my job is only travel and writing, then my salary will continue deposit to my bank, that will be my perfect dream job as I am doing what I like. However, there is not everyone can be like that, so I need to come back to reality. Who want to hire me as a travel journalist?? :P haha... Anyways, it is really nice for travelling, a vacation really can bright up ...

After coming back from vacation, SL said that I have became happier than before, and I also feel the same, I am more enegerstic on doing thing and use my time more productively. Unlike before, I was always complaining and thinking negatively,  but I got less of this type of feeling now. Even though SL would temporary blacken his face, I also can pretend that I didn't see it and just let it go. After the vacation, we both feel more love with each other because there is another memory storage in our brain, which recorded another experience that we went through together. Actually, SL also become happier but he denied it and said he happy because of seeing me happy :) Anyways, he is still happier, right? No matter what makes him happier. We are back from Maldives for about a week plus, and I have done organising my Maldives Trip blogs by yesterday, their actually were written during we were on vacation and I only spent sometime on reread and edited them after back to put in mo...

3rd of October, we were waiting for our transit flight to Penang in KL airport, this also marked the end of our vacation, we need to back to reality now and start working hard for our next Maldives trip :) Overall, I love my trip, it was relaxing and enjoyable. Originally, I thought we would be bored as I read quite some travel journal on Maldives trip, therefore I brought three books with me for killing some spare time, however I didn't even finish reading a book after back because I spent lot of my time to writing my blog and sea viewing, it was great for just seeing this beautiful sea by doing nothing. Four nights stay in island is a bit too short for me, I would plan a longer stay if I really travel next time. Also, I would do more evaluation on different price of half board, full board and all inclusive package because we are not alcohol drinker, as I think more portion of price comes from alcohol, cruise and lessons, which I might not need them for next trip. But, I ...

For getting to nearby resort from Male International Airport, resort will arrange speedboat transfer for visitor, speedboat transfer can be arrange anytime in a day, therefore you still can check in to your hotel even if you arrive at night. However, for getting those further resorts, tourists will need to take seaplane to transfer to their resort, resort will help you to arrange this and seaplane transfer cost will be charged to your payment once you made reservation. However, seaplane transfer can only be arranged during daytime, so you might need to book a hotel in Male if your flight arrive late or depart early. Our resort is Vilamendhoo, it is located at South Ari Atoll in Maldives, it is about 25 minutes travel time by seaplane. Actually, it was a good experience to travel with seaplane as we can view the atoll of Maldives from bird view through seaplane's glass. Seaplane in Maldives is operated by Trans Maldivian (tma - www.tam.com.mv ) and Maldivian Air Taxi ( ht...

2nd of October, this day is our last day in Maldives, I felt a bit upset, why happy moment always ended that fast? I really don't wish to leave this beautiful place, sitting in front of my room, watching the calm sea and listening to melody of sea wave, it was just an enjoyable life. Maldives, I would need to say goodbye to you soon, I hope that I will be back again. Well, we when to Bali last time for honeymoon and brought back a lot of good memories, we also wished to be back to Bali sometime, but we found Maldives finally and now Maldives has replaced Bali as my wish list, who knows there will be another place replace Maldives later? But not for now. We didn't plan for any activities on the last day, but only resting at our room and seeing the beautiful sea view, because we are too tired with lot of activities in past few days. We would need to check out our room at 12pm, then checked in to our seaplane at 2:15pm and seaplane departure time would be 3pm. O...

There are four restaurants in Vilamendhoo Island Resort, Funama and Ahima are served buffet dinner while Hot Rock and Asian Wok serve ala carte meal. We were taking All Inclusive Package, so we only had meal with Funama Restaurant and Ahima is for those stay at Water villas and Jacuzzi beach villas. On the first visit to restaurant, waiter would lead us to our dedicated dining table and the table will be our table for the rest of stay. However, our waiter, Kazir seems like knew I like a sea view table, so he helped us to change table on our third day, thanks to him. After the first visit, we were served by the same waiter as well for the rest of our stay, I like our waiter as he can remember our dining style and he would collect plate and cutlery on the right time, he even remembered SL ordered for Coca Cola on the night before and asked if he'd like to have it on the next day. However, SL prefers to have distance, anyways he is particular person that makes me feel strange...

The activity that I enjoyed the most in Maldives is snorkeling, I could see a lot of corals and fish in this ocean, the fish and coral I found here is more than anywhere that I have ever been. Vilamendhoo has 10 reef exits for visitor snoerkilng, visitors should follow the channel to reef exit to the reef for viewing sea creatures at deep sea, then visitors should follow the edge of reef and swim back to resort by the same reef exit or to the next exit. These reef exits were created to avoid visitors accidentally touch those corals, as corals are very fragile and they will get damaged once been touched. From my snorkeling experience in Vilamendhoo, I think south of island is more beautiful and safer, we see a lot different types of coral over there because reef isn't too steep. Especially, reef near to water sport center. On the other hand, I felt stronger current at north of island, it will be more difficult to swim. Also, slope of reef at north side is more steep, therefo...

1st of October, this will be our last night in Vilamendhoo Island Resort and we will be back home on next day, I kept pretending crying in this day as I didn't wish the holidays end. Since two days ago, we moved our dining table to somewhere closer to an opened door, there we could view the sea clearly, there is a tree with a small emergency boat in the screen as well, I like this view and I will remember this view. Human's eyes is really the best camera lense ever, it can capture every view with the most beautiful way, but human's brain is the worst memory card ever to keep these views forever, I really worry if I would forget this nice scene when I am getting old. During breakfast, I told SL now I know what does a Chinese poem means, 曾经沧海难为水，除去巫山不是云，sea of other sea cannot be considered as sea after coming to Maldives, because the sea in Maldives is too beautiful and I won't even take a second glance on other sea, unless I can find another sea which is more beauti...

I quite like billing system in Vilamendhoo Island Resort, I think most resorts in Maldives apply this billing system as well. During our stay in Vilamendhoo Island Resort, we actually only needed to sign bill when we purchased anything in any store in the resort, like bars for food and drink, gift shop, equipment rental from Water sport center or wherever rent things, all amount will be charged to our room with the room number that you provided to cashier. After that, on the day before checkout, the hotel will send us the bill that listed all transaction happened during our stay, then we only needed to pay everything at Reception. Actually, I like this type of postpay system because it is convenience and we didn't need to bring cash to everywhere we went. The most convenience part is they accept credit card during payment, so that I don't really need to carry a lot of cash for my trip. However, if you decided to pay by cash, they will round your amount to higher integer a...

I think I can be the person who live in stone age, because I am using an old style cellphone, which don't have touchscreen function and only be used for normal function. On top of that, I even can live without cellphone, I always can away from my cellphone for a few days without aware of its existance. It has been happened for many time, I always see some miss calls or SMSs appear in my cellphone's screen, but they were actually there for a few days, then I only know I missed something. Just like today, I saw a SMS left on my handphone, it is from my colleuge and asked me for lunch yesterday, and now I already have my second day's dinner, doesn't this sound funny? =.=" Yes, that why SL always said I got listening problem because I didn't listen clearly to cellphone's ringtone.

There are four types of room provided in Vilamendhoo Island Resort, jacuzzi water villa, jacuzzi beach villa, beach villa and garden villa. Due to we booked our holiday about a month plus before our departure, therefore only beach villa and garden vila left. Actually, I felt lucky because all rooms are gone before three weeks of departure. Jacuzzi water villa is the most expensive with ocean view, jacuzzi beach villa and beach villa are having beach view, and garden villa is located at inner part of island with garden view. Firstly, I thought beach villa might not that good and wished for a water villa, but i like beach villa after staying in it because their beach view is so beautiful, sea is clear and combination between light and dark blue, capture in eyeball is much more beautiful than picture taken by camera. Maldives beach view is just perfect that nobody would feel bored to keep looking at it forever. We stayed at room 152 and it is a semi-detached villa, detached vill...

We woke up earlier this day for sunrise capture, it is near to Asian Wok, but the day wasn't perfect as too many clouds covered the sun, however sea view of Maldives is still so beautiful that I was really happy we were there. After sun rose, we backed to sleep for an extra hour before we went for breakfast. After breakfast, we walked along the beach toward sunset bar as we got a free 15 minutes welcome massage session with Duniya Spa, massage was fine and view from Duniya Spa is perfect, perhaps any view in Maldives is just great, I don't even can find a complaining word about sea view over there. Sea is clear, sky is blue and white sandy beach, accompany by mind calming wave rhythm, it is just a place that we call paradise. Later on, we got our 30 minutes snorkeling lesson at water sport, the instruction gave us some basic overview on snorkeling, how to mask sure the mask is air tight, how to put on it more efficiency, how to use a fin and walk with a fin, and he also te...