Maafushi Island
Travel Dates: July 25 to August 2, 2015 By the time we arrived to Maafushi Island, we don’t have a prior hotel booking, but some staffs from nearby hotel were waiting at the port and offered their room to us. We followed them and stayed at Picnic Inn for 45 USD a night. This is for off-season rate, because it is 2-3 times higher during peak season. Then we moved to Dhonveli View and Narnia. Staying in hotel in a local island will save you a big amount of money for accommodation and food. While a private island resort with beautiful white sand beaches and over water bungalows will cost you about 500-1500 USD a night for a room only. But we don’t want to get stuck in one island and will not get to experience the daily life of locals. The next day, we went for snorkelling with a lunch at sand bank. Riding a speed boat with other tourists, our first stop was Banana Reef. Here we saw a forest of corals already bleaching due to global warming. We di