hi everyone

am back from one of the best 28 hours of my life ( that is of course until now). we left on 26Th at 2 30 pm, the boat ride was around 3 hours long. we went on the biggest fishing boat in the island, don't get all ewwwy, here fishing boats are all whitewashed and have its own distinctions, the family owning the boat had a wedding going on in fuvammulah so everyone went for the wedding as well as to see the island. going to other atoll on these boats is sort of like a mini occasion and large groups of people go making a great atmosphere around.

leaving hulhudhoo

leaving the atoll behind

nothing but the deep blue sea all around....

.... except a launch which passed by

the trip was really calm , the seas were calm, the sky was sunny and all around blue. it was rather hot but the wind blowing as the boat moved made it less hotter.

the very first glimpse of the entire island. it is just above the water less than 5 feet so you can barely see the island in this small pic,but if you look really hard you can see a small evelation, the island at the center

after around 3 hours the island started appearing, and every ones faces started glowing.. hehe

.. but the island was a lil too big to appear on a single photograph

here you can see the harbour, the entry way into the island

as we entered the harbour of fuvammulah

it was a very clear and beautiful lagoon
there were lots of people and kids swimming when we arrived

after we arrived we went to a friends place, by we i mean mom, me , and family friend Mr n Mrs Saeedh. the house we went was in malegan district, there are 8 in total and i have no idea what the others are called. our host was a good friend of both saeed and my dad, he was from a group who came for some work at the nearby resort and since then have been friends with us, he is also really good with computer mechanics and helped me when i had difficulties in the comp. his mom was really talkative so everyone enjoyed her company and got to know a lot. the host friend is also a good friend of both our familes, he is also the brother of a girl who stayed in my house during some school project conducted in our island. 

this it the view from outside the house we stayed

a person catching small reef fishes using a net

after we came and relaxed a little and had a long talk we all went for a coffee, there were 8 of us, we went on 4 motorcycles. we went to Real Breeze it was a noce two storey place. the second story was closed and we later found out that the party itself was gonna be hosted in the very same place. we talked and enjoyed ourselves. it was a good gathering all young and vibrant. i had a coke float (lolx) which i enjoyed after having eaten nothing the entire day. we left to get ready for the party, and then were again on the way abck to the same place, the party was good, the food was not that bad and the lighting was also okay. but the food ran out very quickly and i felt it was a little too mis-organized. after the party it took us 40 minutes to reach home lolx, we sort of lost the way but stillw reached the house on our own. after that we went to bed, saeedh and the others left for somplace. i got the entire bed and mom and mrs Saeedh slept on mattresses on the floor. it was a dbed and i was happy to have it all to myself lolx,but the room was rather hot and mom and mrs saeedh never stopped talking and i was awake the entire night. i slept for like 4 hours and got up at 6 and took a quick shower and left the room around 7 for morning tea. when shaggy (the hosts+both our family friend, and the bro of the gal who stayed in my place) he was our guide for the day we had only 3 hours as it was friday and we had to cut everything we were doing for the friday prayers. we left around 7 30am.   

boys playing football by the shore ( this is the best i can shoot on a fast moving motorcycle)

this pure crystal white beach is known as 'thundi' it is famous for its unusually round pebbles, it used to bed a large beach but now much of it has been eroded.

this is Gemmiskki, one of the well known monuments of the Islamic period. its a neat compound including a coral stone mosque, an ancient graveyard and a well. it is said to be the oldest mosque in Fuvammulah.
this is a place of bath 'veyo' in the ancient maldives, much of it is destroyed now but parts of the wall around and the stairs is still there.

the stairs as well as the entire place is entirely hard carved.

this is a 'ziyaarai' it is the tomb of a important person, in early times people used to offer valuables to the tomb in return for offerings from the supernatural powers, but now it is a banned practice.

this is another part of the thundi

on the ground are all perfectly round pure white pebbles.

it was breathtakingly beautiful i made sure i take a bottle of 'thundi veli' pebbles from the thundi home

this is  'haviththa' it is a buddist stupa, before maldives converted to islam the country was buddist , so after they converted most of the buddist places were destroyed including this stupa, the goverment doesnt take much care of this and there is a lot of trees growing on them and it does mostly look like a pile of dirt. there are three of these near each other. one is big and has still maintains much of its shape the other 2 are almost reduced to the ground, they were origially about 40 feets but the biggest one too is now less than half of that.  thiefs and even amature archaeologist stole much of the valuable and treasure inside the stupas, and it is said that still many gold and this remain inside.

shaggy

this is the talles havitta there now.there are large hand carved boulders visible under the rubble still.
this is the smallest havitta visible
water runway to stop flooding
this is the Dhiraagu ommunications antenna, it  is the tallest structure in the Maldives. its 400 feet long. This antenna also allows Dhiraagu to maintain one of the world's longest microwave links over water, measuring 65 KM
people coming after swimming in the deadly seas around the island. unlike other maldivian island the islands reef is totally submerged thus all around the island is deep ocean and there is a very strong current which can easily drag you to death

the trench like thing visible is called 'olheh' it was used earlier for small boats to take people to the island when there was no harbour, it is also a good point for catching reef fishes and a even better place to get sucked into the ocean and get killed.
dhiraagu tower visible from the beach

driving fast on the highway


fuvammulah harbour, it took more than 4 years to build it because of the dangerous seas, work had to be suspended often beacuse of the deadly current and waves
the way to the never ending oceans

there were loads of people around coming to see everyone off

last glimpses of fuvamullah

the island was oerfect except for the dust, it havent rained for half a year and the roads have turn very dusty and everything outside even plants have a layer of dust over them. the people were really warm and friendly, and every where er go we get gifts and are offered tea and if we decline they will force us to have it lolx, eating all those thinks and the vibration on the boat made my tummy upset but after i sat and relaxed it became okay. the part i hated the most was i took 2 cameras with me but both of them deceived me, when the most important times comes nothing would work, when we left i only got to take a single photo, one camera was fully dead the other had its zoom button broke taking full zoom, into 25 . so i couldnt take much great scenes like when a large group or birds followed us around, and also the group of dolphin ( around 15 and they were different sizex) which followed with us for sometimes, they were great and some jumeped right next to the boat close enough for people to even touh it. i so very wished i had the cam working then, there were so many of them jumping like manniacs and ........ ok leave that im getting too emo about it hopefully better times will come. i have spent almost 4 hours on this post and am dead tired now  so am going to watch a movie or something and relax bye