WilliamN2191
26 augusti 2024
I and my wife stayed at summer island for 7 days from 10 Aug to 17 Aug. The first 3 days we stayed in beachfront villa and the next 4 days we stayed in water villa. Half board is enough for us since we don't eat too much. We just brought some snakes for our lunch. We arrived Male airport around 11pm and the receptionist already waiting for us in counter A10. Just taking 45mins then we arrived at summer island. The weather was good so we could see so many stars in a clear sky in the speed boat trip. Unfortunately, the weather turned bad from the 2nd day and lasted for a whole week, all day cloudy, always raining, sometimes strong wind. There was sunshine in a very short time in only 2 days. In the 2nd day, we received a notice from the hotel to advise us not to go into the water. We booked a snorkeling trip but it was also cancelled due to bad weather condition. Surely I was very disappointed. Some staffs told us that the weather was quite good in the previous week. Anyway it is just unlucky. Anyway, we went snorkeling by ourselves once we felt the weather was okay and we saw many carol fishes, baby shark, stingray, pufferfish, clownfish, butterfly fish near seashore. We bring our own marks, snorkels, shoes by ourselves. We paid 15 USD for lifejacket for a day and paid 10 USD for another half day. During raining and strong wind that the weather condition is not proper for snorkeling, we always went to gym room. It's good place when we feel nothing to do. There are 2 restaurants in the island. Samuga restaurant located in the middle of the island servers all people. Hiya restaurant located near water villa only serves the people who live in water villa. If someone who lives in beachfront villa and would like to go Hiya, they have to pay extra money. As we like Samuga more than Hiya, even though we stayed in water villa, we often have our dinner in Samuga. I would like to specially thanks to a waiter whose name Chathuranga. He works in Samuga restaurant. He is a polite person. He always smiling and very nice us. Every time when I and my wife just entered to the restaurant, he remembered which table we preferred and went there to prepare serving us. Summer island is a charming and peaceful small island. We liked to take a walk on the path. Everyone smiles and say hi to you. Every time when we walked to the pier we saw baby sharks. Their length is about 3-feet. One time we saw 3 baby sharks together. I also saw a big fruit bat flying in day time. I had never seen such a big bat before. There are many small lizards on the island. Very interesting!
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