Omadhoo

After landing in Malé, we were able to take the public ferry to get to our first local island: Omadhoo. Everything went super smoothly and after 4,5 hours, we arrived on the island - ready for some beach and snorkel time 🤿🏖️

Omadhoo is a local island in the Alif Dhaal Atoll, southwest of Malé. We chose this island not only because there's a chance of seeing whale sharks around this area, but also that it's supposed to be a small island with only a handful of guesthouses and restaurants. It turned out to be true: the island had a few shops, about six restaurants/ cafés and a quite small bikini beach (the only area where tourists are allowed to wear swimsuits) 🏝️

Unfortunately, we were super unlucky with the weather. Our time in Omadhoo was basically a lot of rain, flooded roads, thunderstorms and more storms 🌧️⚡ We tried to make the best of it, although it hurt a little, when the locals told us it has never rained like that in February 🥹We still went snorkeling, when there was only a bit of rain and squeezed in beach time when it stopped raining and the sun was out for an hour 😆

Due to the weather we weren't able to do a boat tour so we did not make it to see whale sharks. Still, Omadhoo's house reef is amazing. We saw nurse and reef sharks, sting rays, so many schools of fish and nice corals 🪸🦈

Omadhoo is a super cute and nice island. We liked it a lot and enjoyed discovering some of the underwater world 🥰Baca selengkapnya