Бюджетные Мальдивы - миф или реальность? Для многих...

Budget Maldives - Myth or Reality? For many, the Maldives is associated with an expensive vacation and splits of Anastasia Volochkova, water bungalows, white sand and crystal clear and azure water. That's just about the last and so inexpensive - you can organize. I really wanted to fly on vacation in February and no matter where, just to warm up, and Aeroflot had a sale where tickets to the Maldives from St. Petersburg with a very convenient transfer in Moscow cost 27,500 rubles (for comparison, after the action they were already 48,000 rubles, but the cheapest option remained with AirFrance for 34,500 with a 17-hour transfer in Paris, but we still had no visas and it did not suit us). Throwing a cry in a chat for 140 people, one Angelina responded - as it turned out, the Maldives was her dream. After purchasing the tickets (which we also bought with a fight, but this is a different story), it was necessary to decide where to go. Dear resorts were swept away immediately, we do not earn so much, there were local islands with the local population, of which there are a lot. Shoveled the entire Internet, even compiled a plate, took into account many things: distance from the airport, everywhere you need to swim, the presence of bikini-beaches (Maldives is an Islamic state, it’s strictly there), housing prices, choice of excursions. After much deliberation, we settled on two islands - Thulusdhoo and Heraa (in the Russian version this is how it is, in English it is more decent and fun - Huraa). Transfer to the islands from the airport is offered at your discretion - there are cheap and slow ferries for $ 2-3, local ones ride, there are speedboats - high-speed boats at a price of about 30 bucks (and this price is only for tourists, for locals they are three times cheaper). Having estimated all the schedule, we decided to go to the first island of Thulusdhoo by high-speed boat, the ferry was very late and we would have lost the whole day. Moreover, it is with a transfer - first to the city of Male, then to cut to another pier and only from there sail to the island. While waiting for the boat, bought a SIM card at the airport, they are being sold at crazy prices for tourists, offering several tariffs to choose from - we took 15 gigabytes of Internet for $ 32. They make money on tourists wherever they can. We also managed to get caught in the pouring rain for 5 minutes and jump on the transfer under it. We were met at Tulusus at the pier and taken to the guest house on a tarantay, which turned out to be, to put it mildly, not very. It was such a big disadvantage in rest, but its location turned out to be excellent - 40 meters from the coast of the Indian Ocean! We left things and immediately to the beach with some water. Right next to us was the Surfing School - Perfect Wave, where we rented glanders (sorry, I didn’t guess from the first day), made friends with the owner’s son, Australian Joey, who has been living there without worries for three years, surfing and not steaming about anything ... We spent 5 days on the island, drove to snorkeling ($ 10), a sand spit ($ 20), dashed off on sup-surfing and got so used to it that I didn't want to leave. Snorkeling (this is diving with a mask and a snorkel, who does not know), you can also on a house reef near the coast, but it is better to go further and deeper, we were even lucky and we saw a whole turtle. While riding on glanders, we met baby sharks, stingrays, flying fish, in the evenings they stuck to glowing plankton and crabs showdown. On February 11, we moved to Heraa, where we found a luxurious large room for less money, but the island itself was hooked a little less. The bikini beach is far away there, it is small, but it has perfect fine white sand and an active crustacean life. We got all the locals there, but found a rental board, and also risked surfing on the last day. Never start surfing in the Maldives - it is unsafe and very expensive ($ 60-75 per lesson), before all spots you have to go by boat and everywhere the coral bottom. We were beaten and scratched, we should have paid extra for such an extreme, huh. We spent the last day in the capital, as there was an early flight, and it was a lost day, because the city itself is terrible - the chaotic movement of the transport, gas pollution, the locals will help with bags, we somehow booked a hotel on another nearby island and were looking for a new place. There really are demonstrations there, I already woke up from the screams of the crowd on the street. Walking in the city in the evening is dumb, and during the day too. As Angelina said, Male is one continuous demonstration. Maldivian cuisine disappointed us, as did the drinking coconuts. They only have delicious chocolate coconut sticks. For breakfast, English breakfast is served everywhere - eggs or scrambled eggs, soy sausages, toast. Sometimes the traditional dish is coconut tuna. From the tuna at the end of the vacation, like the sausages. I was bitten by mosquitoes every day, Gel was hit by heatstroke once, now we both walk like leopards with peeling backs. As a result, it would be cool on Thulusdhoo in a good room, and more entertainment on Heraa. But in general we had a good rest. All tuna! :) P.S .: the whole trip cost me a little more than 60 tr. for 10 days. #maldives # maldives