I have bucket loads of catching up to do, fully aware of that, in fact I have drafted about a zillion posts on various events/occasions of 2017, but it seems like the app for this blogging site can't keep up with my ios updates and I only seem to have time to do my posts on the app. There will be a summary post coming hopefully before the end of the year, but this post is all about our very own HONEYMOON!
I am now married which still seems like a crazy dream, but we are here honeymooning after getting married precisely 3 weeks and 2 days ago. Inspired by the lovely Eden's blog - 'The World in Summer' (make sure you subscribe) I decided what better time to start than now (an overcast afternoon).
We are in the Maldives, in the South Ari Atoll staying in the beautiful Diamonds Athuruga resort. Thank you to Emma at Kuoni for helping us book our insanely dreamlike honeymoon.
We flew with Emirates via Dubai and were lucky that both legs of the flight were not fully booked, so we were both able to stretch out and get some proper sleep, pretty much business class right? On arrival to Male, the capital city, the runway was surrounded by sea and from what we could see of Male was a small, yet busy and bustling city with multi coloured rooftops. We were lucky enough that were our island was far enough away that meant we had to take a sea plane rather than a Dhuni local boat, we straight away headed to the sea plane airport and boarded our tiny little plane.
We had a few stops before we got to our island, so it was great to see other resorts before eventually arriving at ours 40 minutes later. People told us before we went that the weather was interesting and that you could be on one side of an island and have rain and the other side would be sunny and scorching hot, that much was true from our plane ride. We witnessed torrential rain, overcast skies, black skies and blue skies and it wasn't a journey for those with travel sickness.
We had a few stops before we got to our island, so it was great to see other resorts before eventually arriving at ours 40 minutes later. People told us before we went that the weather was interesting and that you could be on one side of an island and have rain and the other side would be sunny and scorching hot, that much was true from our plane ride. We witnessed torrential rain, overcast skies, black skies and blue skies and it wasn't a journey for those with travel sickness.
Our sea plane dropped us off in a jetty in the middle of the sea and we were then picked up by the Dhuni local boat and taken around the reef to the pier of our resort.
It paradise from the website and then from the sky, so seeing it in the flesh was incredible. We were welcomed with fresh iced tea and watermelon and taken straight to our first room, number 26 Beach Bungalow where we would stay for 5 nights. It was all we imagined and more, it totally exceeded expectations. Very clean and white, with a beautiful flower display on the bed with 'Happy Honeymoon'. We also, to our surprise had an outdoor shower, which was definitely an added bonus.
It paradise from the website and then from the sky, so seeing it in the flesh was incredible. We were welcomed with fresh iced tea and watermelon and taken straight to our first room, number 26 Beach Bungalow where we would stay for 5 nights. It was all we imagined and more, it totally exceeded expectations. Very clean and white, with a beautiful flower display on the bed with 'Happy Honeymoon'. We also, to our surprise had an outdoor shower, which was definitely an added bonus.
We didn't bother unpacking but grabbed our swimsuits and went for a quick dip before our first lunch. Start how you mean to go on.
The next five days were spent, waking up to palm trees, white sand and clear blue sea, sun tanning, enjoying white wine at lunch, playing too many card games to count and plenty of snorkelling. Highlights were our Teppanyaki lunch at the beach, seeing a few Octopus whilst snorkelling, dinner for just the two of us in a traditional Maldivian hut eating traditional food and another dinner for just the two of us on the beach in a beautiful white gazebo type thing.
We have been utterly spoilt rotten and have now just arrived for our next 5 days in the Water Villa, hold fort for the next post of part 2 of our honeymoon.
xoxo
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