Honeymoon!

Finally, almost one year after our wedding, we could go on our honeymoon! Since we were invited to Chanuka and Danushka's wedding in Sri Lanka, we first went there to attend the wedding ceremony and the home coming party which both took place in Kurunegala. We also spent several days in Colombo doing shopping and visiting friends. After a busy week in Sri Lanka we left for the Maldives on the island Kurumba. Having seen the pictures on the web I expected a really nice and wonderful place, but after having spent a week at the resort I realized that the superlatives were not enough to describe the reality! The beauty and perfectness of the island were perfectly matched by the incredibly helpful and super friendly staff. This added a dimension to the experience that I had not even thought about. Besides the obvious tanning at the beach and swimming in the warm and shallow lagoon (together with shy small reef sharks!), we also played table tennis and worked out in the gym, kayaked around the island, drank exotic drinks (pina coladas, daiquiry's, ..) and ate a lot of good food from some of the nine restaurants, visited a fishers' village and an inhabited island, went snorkling and scuba diving and saw a lot of fish (moray eel's, sharks, turtles, and thousands of reef fish), took a tour with a glass boat, went to a presentation about the Maldives, made new friends, etc etc.. The last night we visited the capital Male, a quite small city with not much to see or do. It was hard to go back home, not only to leave this tropical paradise but also since the actual trip home took 32 hours.. A link to some of the thousand pictures we took will come soon...