I've written a lot of times that I'm a very blessed girl. Counting all my blessings in life, I've made a few decisions that had brought me down this road. There's no right or wrong decisions, just braving it through and making the best out of every single situation that presented itself. I had travelled to Japan and Maldives in the space of a month. Just so happens the trips that I had planned was back to back and it was all good for me. However, I would also think that instinctively, I had just wanted to travel without a care for work and responsibility. I did exactly just that when I was in Osaka and Kyoto and also in Maldives.
I had always admired the Japanese culture of ancient meets modern. It's very common to see spanking new zen modern building right next to an old wooden architecture, usually a temple. Nowhere in the world could marry the old with the new as good as Japan without feeling out of place. My love for all things Japanese started 4 years back when I did a week in Tokyo. Although it was business but it was probably one of the better work trips I had. Come 4 years later, opportunity presents itself for me to go Osaka and Kyoto on cheap flight tickets and boy, it was so good. I haven't been to both places and it was a learning experience for me. I wouldn't forget what I had seen and do in Japan and the new discoveries of friendships and sights.
And moving from Japan, I went to another island country, Maldives. Paradise on earth is probably the most apt description of Maldives. The many atolls, the many marine pelagic, the endless body of water, everything was just beautiful and lovely. Never had also global warming effects, to be felt so much in a single area. It's sad that we humans destroyed some of the most beautiful things on earth for the sake of money and greed for consumption. Rising sea levels is something that is very serious in Maldives. All sorts of conservation efforts can be seen in Maldives. The capital atoll, probably is the most congested place in the whole world. Population density, squeezed into an area for all businesses to operate and governments to serve. I've been told that to travel from Male to the furthest atoll in Maldives can easily take 18-24 hours depending on sea condition. Each atoll is self sustaining and for a place this scattered, their mobile coverage is one of the best I've ever had.
It makes me realized that if Maldives can afford to cover and linked up all their atolls, what's some of those developing countries' excuse?
I had always admired the Japanese culture of ancient meets modern. It's very common to see spanking new zen modern building right next to an old wooden architecture, usually a temple. Nowhere in the world could marry the old with the new as good as Japan without feeling out of place. My love for all things Japanese started 4 years back when I did a week in Tokyo. Although it was business but it was probably one of the better work trips I had. Come 4 years later, opportunity presents itself for me to go Osaka and Kyoto on cheap flight tickets and boy, it was so good. I haven't been to both places and it was a learning experience for me. I wouldn't forget what I had seen and do in Japan and the new discoveries of friendships and sights.
And moving from Japan, I went to another island country, Maldives. Paradise on earth is probably the most apt description of Maldives. The many atolls, the many marine pelagic, the endless body of water, everything was just beautiful and lovely. Never had also global warming effects, to be felt so much in a single area. It's sad that we humans destroyed some of the most beautiful things on earth for the sake of money and greed for consumption. Rising sea levels is something that is very serious in Maldives. All sorts of conservation efforts can be seen in Maldives. The capital atoll, probably is the most congested place in the whole world. Population density, squeezed into an area for all businesses to operate and governments to serve. I've been told that to travel from Male to the furthest atoll in Maldives can easily take 18-24 hours depending on sea condition. Each atoll is self sustaining and for a place this scattered, their mobile coverage is one of the best I've ever had.
It makes me realized that if Maldives can afford to cover and linked up all their atolls, what's some of those developing countries' excuse?
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