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Travel

Maldives

Azure adventures

For sea lovers, Maldives is one of the most gorgeous holiday destinations,
writes Vickram Sethi

Maldives is Mother Nature’s jewel in the Indian There are two kinds of villas – one is an ocean
Ocean. It was one of my bucket list destinations. villa that is accessible only by boat. It also has
Mumbai-Male is a one hour and 40 minute a slide where you slide right into the water. The
flight. We had booked ourselves at the Jumeriah ocean villas are independent structures located
Vettvali. We landed at Male and we were in the middle of the ocean and really looked
ushered into the Jumeriah lounge at the airport pretty from the other side.
where the hotel checked us in. From Male
airport to the hotel is a 30-minute boat ride and
we had our own catamaran to ferry us across.
There were juices and coconut water on board.
We landed at the hotel to a welcome of drums
and music. We were allotted a butler name
Salim and our golf cart ferried us to our villa.

Sea Villas, a charming picture
We stayed in a sea villa, which was attached to a
large wooden ramp, and these were independent
structures located one after the other with a
decent distance between each one of them.
Glass-bottomed floor
The sea villa had a very large luxurious room
with a sitting area inside the villa and in the
middle of it all was a glass-bottomed floor from
Chilling out at the Sea Villas
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