The only thing I liked was that the island has several restaurants and grocery stores for items like watermelon, pineapple, juices, and the like. I appreciated having toast bread for breakfast and jam because after four days I couldn’t find a local Maldivian breakfast anymore. The bed is unbelievably hard; you practically lie on a board with a 5 cm foam layer on top, making it extremely stiff. The bathroom was almost not cleaned at all, especially the toilet and the area under the mirror. Even after I pointed it out to the owner, no one cleaned it for three days. The bathroom had no toilet brush or soap for handwashing. When it rained for two days, the entire bathroom was wet because there is no ceiling over the shower, which is fine on hot days but not during rain; the floor was very slippery and my 71‑year‑old mother was scared and had to hold onto the walls. The island has a very long local beach, but no one swims there, and the tiny tourist beach is so small that everyone has to sit or lie next to each other, and it’s fenced off like a prison. Moreover, the water is full of trash and the whole island is littered. Walking along the local beach you only see garbage – it’s truly an ecological disaster. When you go to the other end of the island (east side), there’s a landfill, and the trash spreads across the whole south side. I’ve never seen such a polluted island. I stayed on four different local islands. The government needs to do something to stop plastic imports in the Maldives, use more glass, ceramics, wood, or iron, and produce drinking water in glass bottles. Otherwise, people literally drown in trash, and even the animals suffer. It’s really sad. The speedboats are unreliable and change their departure times whenever they want, which is extremely stressful, especially if you want to catch your flight on time. Once the boat was broken, another time Ramadan started suddenly, etc.
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