Category: Male

Backpacking In The Maldives: Adaaran Prestige Vadoo Resort Day Tour With Maldives Traveller

Backpacking In The Maldives🇲🇻: Adaaran Prestige Vadoo Resort🛖🌊Day Tour With Maldives Traveller

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“Have I gone up in the world or has the world gone down on me?” – Robbie Williams. As a hardcore long-term backpacker, who is currently single and loveless after too many ruined romances and disaster relationships, I only ever wanted to visit The Maldives with a lovely lady. That was the dream. That was Read more about Backpacking In The Maldives🇲🇻: Adaaran Prestige Vadoo Resort🛖🌊Day Tour With Maldives Traveller[…]

Backpacking In The Maldives🇲🇻: Sleeping In A Pod At Nap Corner, Male

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“Sleeper” – Louise Wener. The Maldives will never rank high on my travel odyssey. A country that caused me stress, heartache, fake news, bribery, corruption and theft of money. I won’t be back till ye. Close yer door on the way out, “The” Maldives, or send me £2,000 which won’t even cover your fakery. I Read more about Backpacking In The Maldives🇲🇻: Sleeping In A Pod At Nap Corner, Male[…]

How To Get A Maldives Visa On Arrival At Male International Airport

How To Get A The Maldives🇲🇻Visa On Arrival At Male International Airport

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As part of my Rainy Summertime tour in 2025, I made The Maldives my first proper port of call. In advance of your visit to The Maldives, you need to get a The Maldives Traveller Declaration form, on that link I have already explained how to get that. This means that tourists visiting The Maldives Read more about How To Get A The Maldives🇲🇻Visa On Arrival At Male International Airport[…]

Friday's Featured Food: Spicy Paneer, Naan and Lassi At The Famous Moti Mahal Restaurant in Male, The Maldives

Friday’s Featured Food: Spicy Paneer, Naan and Lassi At The Famous Moti Mahal Restaurant in Male, The Maldives🇲🇻

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I fell in love with the mix of Indian Paneer (mostly the spicy ones) and Indian Lassi (either mango or natural) when backpacking India away in 2016. I had never really eaten paneer nor drank Lassi before then (that I knew of). Since then, I often delved into Lassi and Paneer at any Indian restaurants. Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Spicy Paneer, Naan and Lassi At The Famous Moti Mahal Restaurant in Male, The Maldives🇲🇻[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Maldivian Breakfast At Go Meal Restaurant, Male, The Maldives🇲🇻

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  When backpacking 🎒 in The Maldives, swankaday resorts often serve up textbook global buffets and the streets of Male have a wide range of Indian, Chinese and Italian restaurants. But I just needed to try something local and preferably an interesting fish or seafood dish. I mean The Maldives is world famous for ice Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Maldivian Breakfast At Go Meal Restaurant, Male, The Maldives🇲🇻[…]

Backpacking In The Maldives🇲🇻: My Bargain £10 Stay At Wind Stay Hostel, Male

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“You might prove them wrong” – Del Amitri. Forget all the preconceptions that Male and The Maldives is a haven for rich suitcasers, business capitalists and shrewd money bankers. I blew that into oblivion by spending less than £15 Northern Irish pounds (“UK” pounds) in my first 24 hours here!! (£10 hostel, £0.70 coffee, £0.80 Read more about Backpacking In The Maldives🇲🇻: My Bargain £10 Stay At Wind Stay Hostel, Male[…]

How to get Maldives Traveller Declaration

How To Get A The Maldives🇲🇻Traveller Declaration (Visa In Disguise) Before Flying (Or Sailing) In

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“Need permission to land” – Robbie Williams. Tourists visiting The Maldives DO NEED a visa, however the process does not involve countless embassy visits, stress, nor even excruciatingly annoying online form filling. All nationalities, yes ALL (with a recent exception denying Israel), are allowed a visa on arrival as long as you satisfy the requirements Read more about How To Get A The Maldives🇲🇻Traveller Declaration (Visa In Disguise) Before Flying (Or Sailing) In[…]

Backpacking In The Maldives💩: Top 11 Unexpected Aspects To Male, The Capital City

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“Rainy Summertime” – Noel Gallagher. Even before my trip to The Maldives in 2025, I had self monikered it the “Rainy Summertime Tour“, inspired by a lost Oasis track. One that Noel Gallagher wrote but never released. I had heard The Maldives were some kind of a “paradise”, this turned out to be excrement as Read more about Backpacking In The Maldives💩: Top 11 Unexpected Aspects To Male, The Capital City[…]

Rainy Summertime: My July 2025 Dream To New Islands

Rainy🌧☔💦Summertime☀︎🌞: My July 2025 Writing✍️🧑🏻‍💻Dream To 4 New Islands🏝️

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“Rainy Summertime” – Noel Gallagher. As the days, weeks, months and years go on, we start to run out of time in life and lose our ambitions and goals. I know that it won’t be possible for anyone to ever visit every country in the world that everyone recognises – I have counted 626 countries Read more about Rainy🌧☔💦Summertime☀︎🌞: My July 2025 Writing✍️🧑🏻‍💻Dream To 4 New Islands🏝️[…]