Maldives is a small country, which is just 5 miles above the sea level. These are small islands in the Indian ocean. There are hundreds of islands present under Maldives constituency out of which very few are human habitat. The others keeps on coming out or sinking in the sea again.
We came back to Bangalore after our wedding in Punjab on 12 Oct, 2008. Till that time we did not have any plans made for our honeymoon yet and I was kind of angry with my husband how come no plans of Honeymoon yet :(. But he surprised me by telling that he is inquiring about the place where I wanted to go (Maldives :) ) and we MAY go in coming next 2-3 weeks. Then the excitement began. After doing extensive research, we narrowed down on Kurumba Island resort (http://www.kurumba.com/). This is the oldest resort in fact the first five star island resort in Maldives. But the sad part was, it was fully booked :(.
We were chasing our travel agent to get us a booking as soon as possible. But he asked us to make full payment before he does the booking for the hotel. We did the same for traveling from 24 Oct, 2008 to 28 Oct, 2008. Till 22 Oct, 2008 we did not have any confirmation from the travel agent, and finally we got a call from him at 12:30 pm that he has got a booking for 23 Oct and we have to travel next day only.
We ran to our home from office. Everything was so quick. There were lots of things pending to do. We have to do packing, arranging USD for traveling and do shopping. Till 2 AM in the night we were busy packing.
Finally the big day arrived, we were soooooo happy :). We boarded Air India flight from Bangalore at 10:00 AM in the morning and reached Male (Capital of Maldives) at 12:30 PM. On top of Maldives, we could see so many small islands and could recognize many islands which we saw while doing research on net.The best part , the runway of the airport was a road which is surrounded by sea from both side, truly an awesome view.
From there we were greeted by Kurumba staff and taken to our personal boat ride to Kurumba island. The smell of sea, excitement of the journey everything was just awesome :).
We checked into the hotel and were taken to our Sea side bungalow.
The view from the room was of a paradise. While laying on the bed, I could see the endless sea with layers of colors, turquoise blue at the shore, blue in the middle and dark blue at horizons. The beaches were white sand and properly maintained by the resort.
There were lots of other people on the resort from various countries, maximum from Russia.
The resort served different kinds of cuisine from sea food, Indian cuisine, Continental, Chinese and lots of other stuff. The best part of the food was the Breakfast which includes everything from every corner of the world.
Our first day at resort went at leisure sitting at beach side looking into each others' eyes :). Next day we woke up early in the morning and explored the full resort by walking beach side. It was like living in a paradise forgetting about traffic noises, mobile ring tones, work pressure.
In the night we used to go to the deck which was surrounded by sea. The sea waves coming and hitting, the air filled with the smell of sea. We could sit there till 1-2 am in the night.
It was as if the days were rushing, before traveling my husband said "What we would do on an island for 5 days?" and now he wanted to extend the trip for 2-3 days more :). This was our first trip outside the country.
Everything was so picture perfect, much more than what we had imagined.
During our stay, we got a special honeymoon dinner.
Finally the day arrived to come back to India, with heavy heart we left Maldives and vowed to come again and again to this place.
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