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July 21, 2024
A cozy clean hotel, a piece of the ocean is visible from the balcony of the room) and you can watch the flight of flying foxes at sunset), pleasant staff). The hotel had delicious varied food, sometimes spicy): various dishes of chicken, red meat, fish, potatoes, pasta, rice, chips, fresh and baked vegetables, salads, fruits: apples, oranges, watermelons, pineapples (sometimes poured with sweet sauces), cakes. From drinks: juice in the morning, water at lunch and in the evening (we took FB meals). We were pleasantly surprised when one day for dinner they brought us a large unusual fish with red fins) - it was very tasty). The hotel offers many excursions related to snorkeling (including the popular rays here - Mantas, which can reach 4 meters in width), as well as fishing, a sunset cruise, a romantic candlelit dinner, daytime rest at the Amaya Resort hotel, holding a wedding ceremony and others. The names of the excursions are in English, there are no guides from tour operators in the Maldives - only excursions from the hotel itself. But we did not take excursions, since most of them are related to snorkeling, and we are not very good swimmers). There were not many people staying at the hotel, perhaps because it is not the season and there may be rain. But during our 6 days on the island, it rained only 2 times and quickly ended. The hotel staff speaks English or translates into your language using a translator on your phone. Near the hotel there is a public beach, where swimming and sunbathing are allowed only in T-shirts and shorts, and a bikini beach - where you can swim and sunbathe in bathing suits. The currency was changed to local rufiyaa at the airport upon arrival, but both excursions and payments in local stores can be made in rufiyaa or dollars. Local women and men travel around the island on mopeds. We got to the island from Male airport by speedboat in 2 hours. On Dhangethi island we saw a lot of interesting creatures: a lot of fish on the pier, including needlefish (long body with a long nose), stingray, reef shark (most shark species in the Maldives are safe for humans) and many others, as well as a macaw parrot flying freely around the island, flying foxes, a stork, small white crabs (merging with the white sand), as well as larger crabs, gray in color with spots), which crawled out only after sunset, small gecko lizards, a black rabbit, most of the shells on the beach are alive - crustaceans live in them). The water in the Indian Ocean is transparent light green), but sometimes there was seaweed floating. The sand is white and never warms up, as it consists of crushed corals. There is a mosque on the island, the singing from which is carried throughout the island by loudspeakers installed on the heights of the mosque). We were pleased with our vacation on Dhangethi Island and the service at the hotel! We saw a lot of unusual and interesting things))).
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