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I booked a flight to Mexico but sadly due to a hurricane it got canceled. So I still wished to visit any tropical destination. I asked a cheap travel agent and she offered a flight to the Male in the Maldives for just two hundred pounds. I booked that airline ticket which was for 14 nights. How perfect I had thought until I saw the accommodation prices in a Maldives Travel Guide Book in my local library. I borrowed that book and off I went home to read about it. I arranged to have 5 nights on an island called Asdu that wasn't too expensive. The boat trip to and from it cost quite a lot. I was able to walk around that little island in ten minutes. I took out a canoe around the little island. I sat in the shade and read a book. The sunset was lovely every evening. There was a trip arranged to a neighboring island where local people lived. That visit was interesting and enjoyable. I went to Male the capital city for 2 nights. It was noisy and busy. It was not a tropical island paradise. I stayed in a guest house and it was much cheaper than on the resort like accommodations on island paradises. It was great for souvenir shopping. I walked past the Grand Friday Mosque and it looked lovely. All local people in the Maldives are Muslim. I tried to find a resort island to visit that was low budget. I was told about an island called Gan which had a hotel called the Equator. I flew there on a tiny plane seeing islands and reefs out of the window. The hotel had a gorgeous looking swimming pool. It had been an old British airbase years ago. They had built bridges up the chain of islands. I hired a bike and cycled up the chain of islands on my own. The resort islands are flat with many palm trees. The sea is clear and the snorkeling is lovely. I was there in November 2005 just before the main tourist season. Yes, December to April is the tourist time. I liked the Maldives but I preferred the Seychelles. Both are pricey destinations.