I am a big city girl, I have seen animals in a Zoo, or in some homes in the shape of a cockroach, or an occasional lizard at the side of the road somewhere in the country side. I thought that’s how God created the world – people live in houses and apartments and animals, birds, fishes and insects live elsewhere. Well I was wrong. My first evening and first night on a Maldivian Island was an adventure as it is. Small island, very clear sky, stars that are so close you think you could reach out and touch them, peace and quiet and endless sea. My room, or to be precise my villa was huge and comfortable and very exotic too, it did not have a ceiling, it was covered with palm leaf roof. I
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