сплошной ботанический сад и дендрарий!!! solid botanical garden and arboretum!!!

We are greeted with moist fragrant towels and a cocktail with a cherry. We were 17 people. I didn’t notice where everyone had gone, they settled instantly...
By the way, as it later became clear, for the most expensive room in the hotel (No. 119), $ 500-700 was paid extra per day, “ours”, whom we had never seen on the beach, settled there.
Number.
Ours is under number 170, a two-story house with 4 rooms. We are on the 1st floor. Standard, shower, bath, air conditioning, double bed with extra bed, no TV, kettle, tea, coffee, cream, sugar, unlimited drinking water.
Shampoo, soap, towel changed often, like 2 times a day, everything is imperceptible.
Quickly changed, unpacked things - and went to the beach.
The beach from the door of the room - 10 meters, the ocean - 20 m....

They rushed to swim immediately, childishly, selflessly. From the outside, it looks like 3 small children… We didn’t notice how the downpour started…. Warm… It was very unusual to swim in the rain. I often observed such a phenomenon - it is raining somewhere, but the sun is shining here, or we have a cloud, but somewhere the sun..... Rain in the Maldives is not a problem - but this must be understood there! And finally, in the evening - a bath, a shower and a trip to a restaurant...
Restaurant.
The so-called buffet - rich, tasty, every dish is tastefully done!
But this is not Turkey for you, Lord, where there is a continuous glutton... There is enough of everything here: meat, fish, chicken, etc. I am not a gourmet, but I will give a few words below to the restaurant and the chef. When we first visited the restaurant, we were immediately given a table, which was “ours” for the entire period of our stay, it is very convenient and calm, you don’t have to strain when the hall is full, you don’t have to take a table, your look is enough for the waiter - and he’s right there, etc. . d. In the evening, they often didn’t finish drinking water at dinner, they left it on the table, and it stood peacefully until breakfast, until dinner!
Tips were left every 3-4 days for $5 on the table. . . Porter - $1, rumba - every morning $1.
After dinner - bypass cafes, bars, shops, reception, and return to the room. We take bedding - and on the night beach - count the stars! The sky is clear, the stars are bright, the constellations are expressive! There were very bright shooting stars, and all this - under the sound of the ocean! Relaxation and dreams, romance and warmth of the soul there! The flashlight came in handy - I chased crabs and ran after them like a child, that's entertaining! They are there - apparently invisible! You sit at such moments on the ocean shore under the starry sky with the whole family and enter a state of trance and feelings of love and harmony with nature and your family, unite together! This feeling visited me here for the first time! I can't name it! Perhaps this is a whim or bliss, or maybe just love in this expression.....

………and finally, the first Maldivian night! I didn’t wake up before the clock signal, but the air conditioner heard at night how it turned on (put it on standby). The nights are calm there, but in the morning these pelican herons and flying foxes (flying mice in our opinion) scream. Sometimes they shout loudly, share something and jump noisily along the branches! They don’t care about us, they just live there, and we are only 2 weeks in this paradise! This is how our 1st day of living on the island of Velassaru passed. And those tourists are right, in whose reviews I read that time in the Maldives stops and drags on for a very long time and slowly, as if helping us to dissolve in this beautiful world, where you feel the harmony of nature and beauty!