Club Rannalhi-Ahh.....heaven!!!:A travelogue!!

Hmm...going back in time......

It's time for me to write about the things i forgot to dwell upon....

Whenever i used to think about holidays....i  always wanted to spend them on sand....looking at deep blue waters..... So without any doubt when my fiance popped up the question about our honeymoon i've told him that i am dreaming about...sand...sea...salty breeze....long trees....and so on................

When given the choice i've chosen 3 places...Mauritius,Maldives and Goa. Ravi was completely against the idea of spending time at Goa, so we are left with two beautiful places to choose from....and some 2 weeks to plan for the honeymoon. yet when the time came we are just 2 days away from our marriage and frantically searching for the tickets/places to go. Anyhow we managed to get all the bookings done and left to Maldives hoping that our swift registration will not turn out as a disaster...!!

Day1: We've started from our place and reached airport by 8 in the morning, making sure that we've had all the things packed.....Yeah the day before our journey we've jogged through streets of hyderabad/Secundrabad to do some last minute shopping. The flight was at 10:25 A.M...so i've got enough time to pester my hubby to get me the chocolates which would last for at-least a week from the duty free shop. It was almost 1.00 P.M by the time we reached colombo. After waiting for a couple of hours over there we were taken to the Hotel Blue Oceantic,Negambo for the night stay as our next flight was at 7 A.M the next morning. Call us lucky as we've no doubt got a terrific place to spend whole of the evening and night, all thanks to Srilankan airlines people.

The ride to the hotel was terrific.I mean we can see the beach as we race through the roads....and its green every where and every now and then we pass across  bunch of army people with mounted rifles. Ravi looked like a kid with a new toy all excited and taking the pictures of beautiful surroundings in the new videocam.

The hotel was a beautiful one...with a beach on onside and our room facing the beach....the moment i enterd our room i felt like cancelling the Maldives registration and staying at Negambo. After having our lunch we've went around colombo with a very friendly guide. The old man who toured us around took us to many beautiful places in and around negambo. We went to the langar and an old church where a wedding was taking place...we've waited till the bride entered the church and man that made me crave for a white wedding!!!....It was so beautiful!!!!

From there we went to a small coffee place near the ocean and had a not so strong coffee with cakes. From there we went to the main street to buy few beach wear since our luggage was in transit and we were left with nothing but our hand luggage which had our laptop and chocolates ;). The weather was too breezy and there was a warning about some storm and within few minutes it started drizzling...we rached the hotel and changed into the shorts and raced to the beach in that awesome weather. After the sunset we went back and played carroms in the lobby. After dinner we infromed the front desk about our flight the next monring and asked them to call us at 4.00 A.M as the bus departures from hotel at 4.15 A.M.

Day 2:

We slept off and the next thing we know is the alarm going off at 4.15 A.M and some one banging on the door and at the same time the phone rang informing us that the bus is about to leave.....It was like a nightmare.....we've called them up and aske dthem to wait for 5 more minutes and stuffed our belongings in the bag and without glancing at the mirror we shot off to get into the bus. There we are like a destitute couple with dishelved hair and drooping eyes....the ride from hotel to the airport took 1hr and we slept al through the ride ignoring the beautiful sunset!!

After reaching the airport we rushed to a restaurant in the 3rd floor and woke up the sleeping staff and ordered 2 cups of strong coffee. It took us little time to make them understand what we need may be due to thier sleepy moods or ours. Coffee was all our body needed as the moment we had it we are like all awake and rushed for the checkin and immediately boarded the small plane which took us to Male.The whole journey was very intersting and actually i spent most of the time looking out/down from thw window....the way the ocean turned its colors.....navy fleets.....that was one memory whoch would never erase from my mind. Since i made a deal with hubby before planning the trip...i was lucky enough to get the window seats in all the planes!! The memory is so clear that even now when i close my eyes i can feel that initial rush of feelings which passed through me when we were above the ocean...but now that scares me!!!!

We reached Male....and trust me to believe that its one of the wonderful feeling u get when you see the narrow strip of landing in the middle of the...the different variations of blue color floats through and there u are landing at one of the smallest airport. People actually were getting off the plane and taking the pics of the plane.It was so wonderful and breathtaking!!. After collecting our luggage we went to the Adaaran Counter to get ourselves booked in and waited for the speed boat. The male airport was so beautiful.The male airport was so beautiful....we came out and waited at a small cafe facing the blue water,had croissants and Coffee.

After some 1.5hrs of waiting we boarded the speed boat and raced towards Club Rannalhi our honeymoon destination. It was like a dream.......the first galnce at rannalhi i was breathless.....it was sooooooooooo beautiful and soooooo breathtaking and i never imagined that it would be so dreamlike!! The fact in here was i left the details of booking and selecting to Ravi  since i was busy with all the shopping and i never even thought of going through the reviews or the pictures of the place on the net. Hence it was like a biiig surprise for me and the look on my face actually made my hubby laugh!!!

We were welcomed with aromatic cloth napkins and a mocktail. After we relaxed we were guided by the staff to our room. And here stays another biig surprise as i was thinking we booked for a beach bungalow it turned out Ravi booked a water bungalow.                       

To be continued.....................