Author archives: Mayatheexplorer
- Planning a trip to the Maldives? Like not having to pay an arm and a leg? Here are 5 reasons why guesthouses are an excellent option.PriceTo say that staying at a guesthouse decreases the cost of your stay would be an understatement. My boyfriend and I paid $3000 in total for a 7-day trip t[...]
- The island of Mathiveri is located on the North Ari Atoll, which is about a 30-minute seaplane ride from the main island of Male. The population is very small, perhaps 900 people at most, but you won’t come close to seeing that many people. There is a school, medical center, a dock, two mosques, two[...]
- Planning a trip to the Maldives? Here are some things to consider before setting sail on the ultimate beach vacay.
Flight
If you are coming from within Asia, flights to Maldives are pretty reasonable. But you will likely need another flight and perhaps even a boat once you arrive. Unless you plan [...]
- With Instagram and other social media, we share the picture perfect moments, but never the process it took us to get there. So here’s a bit of what I don’t share on Instagram, my everyday struggle to get financially free and travel more. By sharing my goals I hope to give everyone a sense of where I[...]
- The struggle of trying to tame my hair is real. This has been a challenge for my entire life and I have blogged about it recently. It’s not a new thing, but it’s gotten even worse with the high humidity of South East Asia. To be quite honest, I had given up. But then I came across the Max Hydration [...]
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Let’s face it; financial planning can be a headache. And when you consider how dense and wordy some of the material out there is, it can also be a bore. When I lived in the U.S. I could put it off because all of my retirement money was being invested for me. I never even saw it. I selected retirem[...]
- JoieDining at Joie is an experience. It had the most attentive staff I’ve ever seen. They welcomed me by name and sat my party in a private room. And no glass went unfilled on their watch. The food was very creative. From the brightly colored salmon made out of carrot to the black char[...]
- I once started a blog post on why blacks don’t travel. I finished it and reread it, then decided to drag it into the little trashcan in the lower right hand corner of my screen. It was depressing. But it also wasn’t entirely true and didn’t move the conversation forward at all. Sure, I don’t see[...]
- I am a warm weather girl. During college I did my time in the cold and since moving abroad I’ve been strategically avoiding winter. Well, winter smacked me in the face over the holiday break as I went to visit my boyfriend’s family in Calgary, Canada (Well, Medicine Hat to be exact). The majorit[...]
- Recently I took a short road trip with my mom. She is originally from Brooklyn, but like me she grew up with an appreciation for nature, despite being a city girl. At one point during our long drive I turned and asked her what her favorite 3 places are in California. She has lived in California [...]
- My main goal this year was to get closer to family. I flew my brothers out to visit me in March and was able to share my world with them. But it was a two way street and I quickly learned more about them. My youngest brother is a talented drummer, waiting for his time to shine. My older brother [...]
- Everyone has that go to place they travel to a lot. It might not be your favorite, but it’s so easy. You don’t have to plan much, it’s cheap, and you know your way around or feel comfortable. So you end up going, over and over again. Maybe it’s Vegas, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Miami or New York. I’ve[...]
