7 things: Maldives

1. Hair flipping, head banging, skirt flapping, posing, and jumping       

2. the best shrimps, heavy breakfasts, food discoveries, and dental hygiene

 

Admittedly, I never knew how a passion fruit looked like before this trip. 

 

Maldives style pizza: It’s not your usual pizza where the ingredients are scattered and spread out, each slice has a different ingredient. They call this Meat Lover’s pizza.

 

Desserts, all of which were spicy

This is their version of nganga. After every meal, Areca nut wrapped in betel leaves will be chewed.

3. To burn the calories from eating, you goof around

 

4. Zen! Relax! A good night’s sleep!

You try to work, but all effort are in vain. Maldives is the most relaxing place I’ve been to. It’s like a spa, you’re in a bubble.

5. You land on the airport, you see how beautiful it is. Then, you go diving…I won’t even attempt to describe how amazing the experience was.

Kazuko, my dive master showing my uncle how fat the grouper (in Filipino, Lapu lapu) we saw. It was taller than me! Sarap ihawin!

My cousins got their license here, at a cheaper price than what they would have spent in the Philippines.

Moral of the trip is: INVEST IN A GOOD UNDERWATER CAMERA!

5. It really is the best place for a honeymoon…unless 3 saling pusa tag along

  

  

6.  You meet new friends

 

 

7. The best birthday spent with my favorite animal!