The Hidden Maldives Most Tourists Never See
have you ever wondered what's life like for the locals in the Maldives behind all the luxury hotels I have been living my own life in the males in today's video we are going to visit two local Islands here in the Maldives Assalamu alaikum hello where are you from because most tourists who come here only stay at the so-called Resort islands where there is nothing else other than hotels but I am looking for a different experience because I'm always curious to find out what's the local life like in the countries I visit could you imagine living here on a small island in the middle of the ocean in my previous video we have already explored Mala and got a feeling for what's life like in the capital but now I'm also curious to see what's going on on other small local Islands here so let's find out feel free to join all right and we are starting today's Journey at the jety here in Mali the capital of the malds where I am about to go on a boat to go to hura Island and I am a little bit in a rush because the boat is supposed to leave in less than 10 minutes and I don't have a ticket yet I made a reservation already via WhatsApp but they told me that I need to actually buy the ticket here first of all I don't see the company I am with here this is a different name do you know where I can find seashine seashine they will mainly come to this J they over there over there yeah that's white color T-shirt white T-shirt okay thank you so much okay seems like they're over there I have a reservation for seash shine uh 10 to go to Huda 150 right all right that was easy then hello good afternoon Hi how are you I'm very good I can choose a seat right yeah can sit anywhere yeah yeah sometimes I have the problem that I get a bit dizzy on the speed boats but uh the ride should actually be only like 20 25 minutes and the water quality here looks already amazing just in the harbor of the capital but I think this is nothing compared to what we will see later on the island all right and about 25 minutes later and we have arrived is he going and here we are Huda Island and my hotel is supposed to pick me up here en you're going to P 12 C yeah yeah I'm from the okay nice to meet you hello hello do you have any luggage no just a backpack great traveling light okay thank you very much yeah so Huda island is a local Island here in the mald you have to differentiate between two different types of islands we have local islands and we have Resort Islands on the resort Islands the only thing you find on them is Resorts and hotels and then we also have local islands like this one where you have a local community and just a handful of hotels and guest houses excuse me how many people are living on this island 1,800 1,800 first Impressions here oh it looks already quite beautiful we have beaches all around palm trees coconut trees okay thank you very much maraba to that's been welcome in a thank you the first impression here beautiful thank you very much for you thank you have a good day a bye-bye from thank you are you from the males no I'm from yma from yma you're from Germany I'm from Germany yeah good good oh oh right here okay how to say thank you in Myanmar yes okay thank you enjoy your day thank you so this is what $150 a night gets you on a local Island here in the mald a very basic room but totally all right and a very spacious kind of open space bathroom which was really cool which had for some reason two showers and I also had a little terrce overlooking the ocean all right I got a bicycle from my hotel which we are going to use to explore the island now the island is not really large so even if you would walk it would only take about 15 minutes from one end to the other and yeah there are I think no cars on the island only these electric runs from the hotels and then a lot of bicycles okay my first mission is I would like to see a very beautiful place Crystal Clear Blue Water typical mald something like that and I would just like to get to know the island a bit see how the people are living here what are they up to and the people here are so friendly everyone I'm driving by is greeting me with a friendly hello and we even have a football field here that looks pretty cool but probably way too hot now to play football okay let's go inside the village so we have a few roads looking like this here with houses left and right and then a few shops here and there as well but as you can see it's relatively quiet here maybe it's because of the time of the day it's about noon now here we are in the middle of a village in the males and as you can see pretty much every road here is looking the same what a place to live right could you imagine living here on a small island in the middle of the ocean surrounded by beautiful postcard looking like water and beaches this seems to be a little beach here let me park the bike and then we have a look wow this looks beautiful here this is amazing check out the water quality here I really hope it looks as good on my camera as it looks in real life in the background you can see pretty high waves so that is where the open ocean starts I guess let me see if I can get up here all right so yeah over there maybe 100 150 M AR we have pretty big waves and yeah behind that is basically the open ocean but here it's like a little Lagoon close to the island and what I can see down here uh you can see these little yeah how to call that it's almost like a basket that is upside down and this is I think for corals so these things are planted and then usually they put corals on the side so they can grow new because yeah the the coral leaves around here are obviously being destroyed by all the tourists here and that is of course pretty bad for the nature here so what they're trying to do a lot here in the mald is to build new Coral Reeves with places like this here I'm not 100% sure if this is such a place but if you want to build Coral Reaves you use things that look similar yeah imagine we just drove by a school over there imagine your school is there and every day after school you can just come here sit by the beach do your homework in the shade over there what a life and actually right over there just maybe 30 40 me away we have a resort island there's the Four Seasons Hotel over there so yeah the the difference here is huge like you have the local islands and then just a few meters away you have a resort island there's nothing else on that island other than the Four Seasons Hotel and I think one or two restaurants probably belonging to the Hotel this is one of the most beautiful places I have seen this is absolutely beautiful here hi hello I think I saw you in Tik Tok you been to Nepal right yeah yeah yeah I saw you Tik Tok you see are you from Nepal yes oh Namaste Namaste hello oh W people from Nepal recognizing me here from Tik Tok they actually also huge crabs living in the Rocks here I'm not sure if you can see them but there's a big one right there a second one there and I see at least three more between the Rocks here not sure if I would like to uh play in the water here and then suddenly you're stepping onto one of these huge crabs here I'm actually going to sit in the shade here now to fly my drone for a few minutes and then I think this Shop sells some drinks maybe we can get a refreshing little drink but first I want to get a drone shot look at that there's just a little area here where you can just chill there's no Hotel here or anything just a looks like a public place to chill super beautiful view to the ocean the sun is shining shade from the coconut trees this place is amazing so the Drone shots that you already saw probably in the video I'm going to take them right now okay half an hour later guess you didn't see any drone shots in this video yet because my drone is not working anymore and to be honest this is killing my mood a bit because I'm at such a beautiful place and suddenly my drone is not working anymore in case you know anything about drones this is the DJI Mini 2 and it says gimbal is blocked so I can't do anything with the camera with a block gimbal also I'm trying trying to calibrate it new but that doesn't work as well tried to search the internet about how to solve this problem nothing worked so I'm at one of the most beautiful places I can imagine and I have a drone with me which used to work perfectly the past years but now it doesn't Okay always trying to stay positive well if I just look at this again my mood is up again wow okay yeah guess I don't have drone shots from my whole trip in the malds which is very unfortunate all right I need a refreshing drink now I literally sat down there for half an hour trying to fix the problem hello hello you have cold drinks here yes yes what do we have what do you want one oh shakes can I have a watermelon juice yes yeah that looks good thank you so much all right we have a fresh watermelon juice here with this view increases my mood immediately again I then spent the rest of the day exploring this quiet little village and relaxing by the beach and my impressions are that the life here must be very peaceful and calm and now I was also very curious for the next local Island where we will meet locals try local food and get some more impressions of the local Island life here stay tuned for that so the next morning I decided to take the ferry to go there and while waiting the driver who brought me to the pier started sharing some interesting insights about the life on the island here are you from hura yes so that's your home Island and are most people here on the island working in like hotels Resorts tourism tourism and now we have a new like a restaurant opening so so most people work somewhere related with tourism yes I have been living my whole life in the m and I'm still amazed when I go different Island and do the snow and see it's a different world so it's still beautiful for you although you see this every day of your life yes for me I would say it's very wow must be cool like there are like millions of tourists coming to this country every year yes and everyone says oh it's so beautiful here and you're living here for stress wise I will say I'm fre peaceful life here right very peace far away from everything from all the stress oh did we just miss the fery oh we were talking so much here that we I think almost missed the ferry but thank you very much for all the information really interesting I really appreciate that thank you thank you for coming back okay nice to meet you thank you very much thank you all right yeah how much and now it should be about only like a 20 minute ride the next island is not that far away here we are oh we yeah oh hello welcome to thank you very much bags only this oh you pick me up right in front of the ferry yeah how convenient thank you very much so we are on Tulu Island now how many people are living here in Tulu is uh 2,000 people 2,000 people so it's a bit bigger than Huda yeah so yeah this was a local Ferry earlier in the video you saw me taking a speed boat so you have two different types of boats going around the islands you have the local fairies like this one and you have the speed boats so many goats here yeah are you from this island no no I from bades from Bangladesh I want just oh okay okay from Daka uh yeah have you been Bangladesh no but I would like to visit next year yeah you can that's the hotel right Hotel yeah I recognize it from the pictures okay so that was literally like a 5 minute ride only and here we are the reef Edge Hotel get a drink here okay thank you okay so I checked in into my hotel and this is by the way $90 per night including the breakfast I especially love the view that I have in front of my room I can sit here in the morning drink the coffee enjoy this amazing view over the ocean but yeah now let's start exploring the island oh we do have some kids playing volleyball or football Hi how are I'm good where are you from Oham alikum hello where are you from oh hello hello I'm from Germany with us yeah sure let's play yeah okay nice to meet you hello what is your I'm Ken hello what is your name I'm n okay nice to meet you are my little brothers all right okay let's kick the first ball okay let me try let's see go back and then kick the ball yeah okay ah that was right to him that was a good pass actually okay and oh oh yeah that was a goal very good good good okay have fun playing I will continue to explore bye bye-bye come get here okay oh that was lovely but actually pretty exhausting I'm sweating like crazy now after like 10 minutes playing there I like the design of these houses here these small cute houses you know what I think my mom would really like to live here my mom really enjoys quiet places like this so Mom if you're watching this let me know if I'm right I think you would enjoy this maybe I can buy some drinks or snakes for the kids good afternoon you have some uh snacks here like uh cookies or maybe this one here chocolate puff yeah let me get this one and maybe do we have like a big bottle of some drinks okay I will take these two please you want chocolate okay you chare with everyone okay and you can have the Sprite as well oh yeah hello hello thank you so much you share okay okay share okay have a good day okay byebye okay but now actually I also need to uh get myself something to drink I'm really thirsty could also go for a little snack as well and I actually think that there's a little shop here on the corner let's see what they are selling here hello what are you selling here you have some food here something to eat sweet oh this is sweet yes oh like a like a cake me cake cake me pudding pudding ah you make at home mm oh okay can I get one piece please yeah do you also have something to drink oh drink drink oh we have a fridge here okay um we have funa we have Sprite energy drink can I get can I get a Sprite yeah okay let's get a little refreshing drink here as well as a snake oh that looks like a delicious cake what flavor is this cam cavor flavor pudding caramel pudding oh okay I use spoon spoon yeah you have a spoon that will be easier I think have how much is this wait 23 40 40 okay sexy bag thank you so much okay but now let's give the cake a try actually it's more like pudding and I think she also said that actually yeah like a caramel pudding but the shape is like a cake oh I really like it that is delicious and yeah what a beautiful location we have the the ocean right over there with a beautiful beach basically all around here and we have the beautiful coconut trees here that is just a beautiful location to enjoy little snack thank you very much that was a miru miru miru miru delicious okay Chuka thank you very much but now I do have one more place in mind that I would like to visit which is a Coca-Cola factory because believe it or not there is a Coca-Cola factory here on the local Island so let's see if we can find that all right we actually do have have a proper football field here as well actually two of them and a volleyball field as well which looks really really nice actually pretty new I think and there's a second field here so you do have quite a few sporting facilities here if you live here you can easily do some sport activities and I noticed that also on the previous Island as well as in the capital Maly I actually saw plenty of football fields there the sport seems to be a popular thing to do here for the locals in the country but first impressions here this Village here on the island looks similar to The Village we have seen in Huda we have these small narrow roads here the houses look very similar but I see a difference here on this island there are more Western tourists here compared to Huda Island especially many Surfers plenty of people with surfing boards around here and here's a mosque again of course there's actually also another mosque right next to my hotel so we have at least two of them here on the island and here we have a little Beach looks beautiful right and there's even an ATM here which I think is the only ATM on this island on the previous Island there was not even one single ATM by the way excuse me hello I'm looking for the Coca-Cola factory ah over there ah I can I can drive here yeah okay thank you so much by the way these gentlemen they said no English no English indicating that they don't speak English and many of you are always curious to know how is the English level of the countries that I visit so far in my experience here almost every person speaks English at least good enough to uh communicate a bit with you so I haven't had any language barrier issues so far here yet of course I never expect people to speak English when I am in a country that is not native English speaking but it makes the life of course easier as a traveler when you're somewhere where people do actually speak English I have to say it's a really relaxing experience to uh film here in this country like sometimes I visit like very hectic chaotic countries where it's also fun to film I also like that but it's a totally different experience from filming in a place like this you know Island Vibes everything is relaxed laid back it's a very different uh filming experience here for me a few weeks ago I filmed in pom pen the capital of Cambodia maybe you saw that video and that was like a very busy buland City a very different filming experience compared to what I'm having here so here we have red things already how do you call it in English I don't know but this is already from Coca-Cola here yeah the place where you put the cans inside I don't know what's that in English this is the Coca-Cola factory of the malds which is uh the only Coca-Cola factory in this country and what's really unique about this Coca-Cola factory is that it's the only Coca-Cola factory worldwide that is used using filterate sea water for its production would you have imagined that there's a Coca-Cola factory on this small local island in the malds I find that actually very interesting similar to as on the other Island it's very quiet here you don't see a lot of people around I could imagine that it's because of the the time of the day and the temperature it's pretty hot of course here that would explain why there aren't many people around and also probably there's just not much to do here so there's no reason for people to be out and about but I still think that we can get an interesting view into what it would be like to live here on a small local island in the malds and that is something that personally I find very interesting and maybe some of you find this interesting too I hope so and maybe some of you are even saying oh this is perfect this is what I would like living in a peaceful quiet Village like this what's also interesting here in the Maldives they have different types of beaches this beach especially for tourist only so they differentiate between tourist and local beaches here because on a local Beach for example it's not allowed to wear a bikini which is of course yeah because this is a Muslim country so they have special beaches for the tourists so that they can wear a bikini here and that is not only on this island I have seen that on the other Island before as well as in the capital of Malle but I can imagine also that some local islands where there's hardly any tourism don't even have a tourist Beach all right I have one more goal for today and that is to hopefully watch a beautiful sunset there's a place called Sunset Beach on that part of the island over there are so far I haven't been able to see a breathtaking beautiful sunset here in the malds yet every day when I tried to watch it it was too cloudy and today is actually one of my last days here in the country so let's see if I will be lucky to see at least one beautiful sunset here in the males I don't want to get my shoes wet again like you saw in my first video from the malds so I'm a bit careful now and looks like there used to be a house here but not anymore maybe the ocean was further away at some point and then the water came and took the house basically I'm a little bit sad once again that I don't have my drone anymore this spot would be perfect for some drone shots okay we have this piece of land here stretching into the ocean and this is a spot right oh wow I'm so happy to see this this is beautiful after visiting both hura and Tulu Island I've seen a sight of the malds that most Travelers Miss away from the Luxury Resorts life moves at a slow pace here and the natural beauty the welcoming locals and the authenticity of the experience made this trip truly Unforgettable for me if you plan to come to the malds I highly recommend to stay on a local Island as well and not only in the luxury resort these are the places where you really get to know the country yeah I hope you enjoyed this miniseries from the Maldives and that you saw a sight of this country that you haven't seen before I really enjoyed my trip here but I am leaving again in a few days and then I will see you again from another very interesting country somewhere where I have never been to before so stay tuned for that and if you haven't seen my previous video where we explored Mali the capital of the Maldives then feel free to check out the video right here stay healthy stay positive and then see you on the next episode ciao guys
2024-10-20 17:21
