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Leisure > With partner | 29 June 2015
Very Good
Corals and turtles
When you are preparing to choose on which Maldivian island you want to spend your holiday, usually you express your own priorities in choosing.
There is who prefers a village where the absolute tranquility of nature prevails (small island, without animation, with few bungalows, no TV ....), who prefers to find good food in the resort, who wants comfort in the rooms (maybe with a pool side), who searches an "all inclusive" in which all comforts are present, who likes the presence of children, or a doctor ... .on the contrary first I look at the reef , if there are many corals and fishes and how they are.
There are Maldivian islands that have a beautiful lagoon with stunning colors, but they are without the reef nearby, and if you want to go snorkeling along the corals, where colorful fish are never lacking, you have to rely on the resort, which often provides free transportation over the surrounding reef, once or even twice a day, but of course you have to accept their schedules and their programs.
We prefer the freedom to go into the water when and how much we want, to stay more or less time in a section rather than in another, to follow with a camera a beautiful fish or a turtle, to stand in the water waiting for a moray with its head out of a hole in the rocks ....
The reef at Gangehi surrounds the island for three quarters but it is not nice at all points in the same way.
It must be said also that in Gangehi there is always a marine biologist available to tourists, and this is certainly an added value to the stay. While we were at the resort, there was Valerie, expert and nice, from Switzerland. The biologist once a day accompanies those who want to do snorkeling, starting at 4 pm, or from the end of the strip of sand or from the lagoon, near the pier, depending on the sea currents. During the guided snorkeling the biologist shows you from where you should enter the water, she teaches you the name of some fish species, makes you noticed the corals or fish more details ( because maybe at the beginning you can escape), calls you back if you go too close to the corals with your fins ...
We usually went into the water in the morning for a long ride on our own, and in the afternoon at the beginning we always followed biologist Valerie with her guided tour, and then we continued to remain still in the water, after having greeted her and all the comrades at the end of the round. There were never many people who took advantage of this service, at most three or four persons every day.
If you want to snorkel along the pass on the side of the strip of sand, it is always better to start from the end, rarely from the bar, because according to our experience the sea currents always push from the Ocean towards the inside of the atoll.
The currents are never strong, and it's really easy, while you are swimming with fins, to be gently pushed toward the bar. When you arrive to the bar, you can go back to the beach ,if you are tired, or swim towards the coral garden, to the side of the lagoon around the pier.
The corals along the pass are not very colorful, nor very dense, they are much more beautiful from the bar going to the lagoon, however you can find equally some nice fish. It was while I was swimming out to the pass, from the strip of sand, that I met a couple of oriental sweetlip with the juvenile colors, in spots instead of stripes, very beautiful.
Along the pass I could then see, in blue, a napoleon fish, and a couple of long white tip sharks, while near the reef we easily met moray eels, pipefish Schultz, once an octopus, in addition to the usual variety of reef fish, which here, however, are less numerous than on the corals in coral garden. Along the pass you can then do special meetings, such as eagle rays or manta rays, if you are lucky.
If instead you want to swim in the coral garden, you should exit from the space between the second and third wall anti-erosion, on the side of the first Beach Bungalows towards the jetty.
It was coming out from there that one day, with the biologist, we saw a huge moray eel coming out with its head by the grid that covered a wall ... how it did to get in, in that hole so tight, it was a mystery to me!
As soon as you exit from the opening, you can see the first brain corals, which promptly the biologist shows plunging to the bottom, and you see immediately also big fish, like the titan triggerfish or very big parrotfishes. From that moment onwards, it's easy also to meet some quiet turtle (there are five, settled on that reef), surgeon fish ... and every reef fish. Swimming towards a red buoy, moored off, you cannot mistake, because about at that point the reef forms a sort of curve to the north, which closes a bit the lagoon around the pier.
In that sort of submerged peninsula there is a splendid set of corals and fish, always, all days. At one point there is usually also a lobster, rather in depth, that the biologist has also tried to photograph for me. Turning around the tip of this submerged peninsula, you swim back to the south and west, and from there onwards the discoveries and special meetings follow each other without interruption.
If you want, you can swim above the reef also coming out from all the other openings that are between the walls anti-erosion, but in that case the path ahead towards blue and the edge of the reef is long enough, because there the reef is very broad and it is easier to do this if the tide is high.
You can very well to swim above the reef even at low tide, but in that case you must sometimes bypass the emerged corals, so as not to damage them.
The discovery of the most strange and wonderful corals, similar to very dense succulent plants or like labyrinths, and view the most beautiful fish is assured ... just look at the photos!
Stayed May 2015, in room 63
Restaurant > Veli Restaurant 22 June 2015
Very Good
The " Veli Restaurant " is the resort's main restaurant, where everyone goes to eat, with buffet service for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
This restaurant consists of two rooms, Bodu Veli Room with 80 seats, and Kuda Veli Room with 30 seats, and it offers a Mediterranean and international cuisine.
In the resort, when you make a reservation, you can choose from all-inclusive, full board or half board, and you notice this when you go to eat.
Matthew, an italian chef (native of Biella) who works in Gangehi now from two years, told me in fact that in that period (May) at least half of the guests had chosen half-board, so the lunch room was much more quiet and empty than in the evening, when almost all the guests were present. Matthew is definitely very sociable and friendly, as well as very professionally prepared. When you went to choose between a well-stocked assortment of dishes, after asking from where you came, he explained really everything: what was in each bowl, pot or dish that you had in front, the ingredients, what kind of fish or meat it was .... and they were a lot !!!
We start from the beginning : breakfast is served from 8 am to 10:30 am.
After an oven for toasting bread, you can find sliced bread, cakes of various kinds, croissants empty, or stuffed with chocolate or jam, donuts, a basket with different kinds of jam, several large bowls with breakfast cereals, soy milk, whole milk and hot coffee, a box with twelve different kinds of tea bags, hot water, two other thermal coffee carafes, four pitchers with cold drinks (usually natural water, mango or orange juice, pineapple juice and watermelon juice), already sliced fresh fruit (pineapple, papaya, passion fruit).
Behind this table, separated, a boy is willing to make an omelet with ingredients of your choice.
On another table there are various type salty food: stuffed croissants with ham and cheese, quiche already cut into slices, grilled tomatoes, potatoes with bacon, boiled eggs, sliced ham and cheese, various vegetables.
The waiters turn near the tables and they bring you coffee, tea ... or whatever you prefer.
During breakfast there isn't Matthew (who, among other things, said that in June he will leave Gangehi), while he is always present at lunch and at dinner, every day of the week except Friday, the day dedicated to the Maldivian cuisine.
During lunch and dinner you will find the great buffet counter with many varieties of vegetables, raw or cooked. The cooked vegetables are prepared each day differently, tasty, tempting, with unusual and appetizing combinations of ingredients . You can always find lamb, beef and chicken, grilled or with more or less spicy sauces. The meat is always tender and tasty.
Rice, cold pasta salad and small bowls with sauces of various kind are among the other containers of meat.
Then the fish is outstanding. I do not know how Matthew does (and of course the chefs who work with him) to find so many ways to prepare the fish, which is presented in single portions, wrapped in rolls, or cut into pieces, covered with chopped vegetables, or caramelized, or cut into thin strips ... with an endless imagination, not to mention the goodness of such preparations !!! The fish are different: jackfish snappers, groupers, ... all fresh, they are brought daily from fisherman's island opposite to Gangehi. Towards the end of this long buffet table, behind the dishes, there is a large hot-plate and a cook broils chicken fillets, beef or fish ... and finally, in a thermal container, you find a huge roasted fish (daily different), covered with herbs and chopped vegetables, which the chef cuts for you if you like it.
A few steps away from this corner, on a separate table, a boy is involved in the preparation of pasta.
I have never got pasta (because there were TOO MANY good foods to choose from !!!!), but my husband has never failed to enjoy the pasta. Never overcooked, it was almost always of two different types and seasoned with imagination and taste, both with fish and vegetables or with meat.
Finally, near to the north entrance of the restaurant, on a large table there are fruit, cakes and ice cream.
The fruit are always papaya, mango, pineapple, passion fruit, dwarf bananas and watermelon, rarely fruit salad.
When I was there, the watermelon was not very sweet, but the mango, papaya and pineapple were delicious in my opinion.
The ice cream was always two or three kinds, but I never ate it. There were always two types of cakes and pastries portioned, caramelized peanuts and bowls of mousse which were absolutely delicious, irresistible to the eyes and the palate.
For the sweet tooth and chocolate lovers a bowl of melted chocolate was available to garnish or add flavor to your cake, if you wished.
Even during lunch and dinner of course the waiters turn near the tables to bring you drinks and pick up the empty plates.
I was very glad about what I found in the restaurant in Gangehi (excellent from all points of view), and happy by choosing the full board.
THARI RESTAURANT, on the water of the lagoon
This is the second restaurant of the resort, located at the end of the pier on the lagoon and it is open from 6.30 pm as Lounge Bar, to sip an aperitif watching the sunset, and then as a la carte restaurant, on reservation, until late .
It proposes a different drink for each evening: the classic, the vegetarian, the "mise en bouche" and the Italian. And if guests want to book also dinner, those who make use of the full board or the all-inclusive can get a discount of 30% on dinner. Lobster or special fish are offered also on request
However, given the variety and the quality of the buffet offered by the restaurant Veli, we never had the desire to try a dinner in this restaurant.
Stayed May 2015, in room 63
Bar > Kandu Bar 21 June 2015
Very Good
The Kandu Bar is the main bar of the island, open all day from 8 am till late (another bar is at the Thari restaurant, which opens only from 6.30 pm for cocktails).
Kandu Bar offers, such as the reception, a free Wi-Fi connection (this year is also available from all rooms with a password that you receive from the reception, even if they apprize you that in the rooms it is slower than in the two places mentioned above ).
At the bar, in addition to the usual drinks of all kinds, alcoholic and not, hot or cold, you will also find various salads or snacks, toast or fruit salad ... and this can certainly be useful for those who want to choose a half board accommodation in the island, rather than a full board or an all-inclusive. To us it was useful on the day of departure, when we didn't have wanted to stop for a full lunch at the Restaurant Veli, which would have cost us 30 euro each.
Bar prices are not very affordable, according to me... although it is certainly subjective.
To take some examples, a glass of juice costs 3 euros, a toast with ham and cheese 8 euros, most cocktails 8 euros and a half ... to which of course you add taxes (10% plus 12%).
Inside the bar area is also a screen for viewing video (mostly on marine life) proposed by the biologist, and an area where you can take vision of the activities and excursions offered for the same day or the next days and give your accession to the excursions that interest you.
Very attractive cards, with explanations in English and sometimes in Chinese, invite you to choose between fishing (sea fishing, evening or in the morning), snorkelling trips to nearby islands (Bathala, Madoogali and Vihamaafaru), by speedy boat or by dhoni, or snorkelling with manta rays, or at night, or private, or excursions to the island of fishermen.
Even the excursions are offered with prices not exactly cheap. Some examples: 35 € plus tax for the excursion to fishing evening, 50 euros plus taxes for snorkeling with manta rays, the same for the output to see the dolphins and snorkeling in the various islands ... however I have to say that in excursions to which I have participated was always present even the marine biologist, who, during the trip by speedboat ,explained precisely what we could see and what we should do, and who accompanied us even in water.
Stayed May 2015, in room 63
Excursion > Snorkelling Trip 31 May 2015
Very Good
This year I choose Gangehi for my Maldivian stay, but initially I was very torn between this resort and Madoogali.
For this reason, when I saw that between snorkeling excursions the biologist Valerie proposed also the reef of Madoogali, even combining it with another, that of Vihamaafaru, I had no doubts.
Among other things, I had not even realized that after all Madoogali was relatively close to Gangehi.
After some days, at 9.30, we left Gangehi together other ten people, and with a speedy boat we went to Madoogali.
I do not know exactly the time it took to get there, it seemed to me a little, looking at the beautiful colors of sea water along the way ... and then I could already see the silhouette of Madoogali in the distance, so I was already looking for what I could see and admire along the coasts of that island.
The first thing I noticed was the beach surrounding the island ... it looked like a white ring, beautiful, it seemed that there were not places in which sand wasn't.
I remembered then that from March the resort had been closed, so I was surprised to see around the island still sunbeds scattered here and there, as if the guests might have momentarily forgotten them...
With the boat we stopped at a point where there was no current and we went down into the water accompanied by biologist Valerie, who was trying to stay close to a Chinese couple who didn't seem very practical in snorkeling.
We covered perhaps a quarter turn of the island ... .beautiful reef, but we have not been particularly affected. Beautiful corals, a good presence of fish ... but not more than Gangehi, in my opinion. Maybe I expected more, but I said to myself that we could explore only a small part of the reef of the island ...
Edged up on speedy-boat, we left for Vihamaafaru, which is an island that is close enough to Madoogali and frequented only for picnics or hikes. In the island there aren't residences for tourists, so the reef is quite healthy, alive, colorful, not ruined by an excessive presence of people. This reef is very close to the surface, so you could appreciate better the beauty and variety of corals, you had only to be very careful to swim always on the surface of the water to avoid the risk of touching the corals..
Until this moment I have seen there the corals most beautiful of my life!
They were big, huge or small, colorful, of an infinite number of forms ... I saw even a lobster hidden under a coral! A wonder of nature!
Valerie has helped the Chinese girl in snorkeling , putting a lifesaver ring under the belly, and pulling her, so arranged , with a rope!
I never was tired of swimming above that coral paradise!
I was really happy to have participated to this excursion. It was really a good choice.
Stayed May 2015, in room 63
Excursion > Manta Check 31 May 2015
Very Good
To see mantas
When I planned my Maldivian holiday, this year I tried to prepare and inform myself very well about mantas and about areas that they could frequent more, for obvious reasons of food, throughout the year (and I have sincerely to thank my friends for help they have given me in this research).
I did this because it was my dream, not only to see, but also to swim with these huge wonderful fishes.
Then I came to know that during the dry monsoon, which lasts until about the end of April, you can meet mantas especially next to Pass that lie in the west of the atolls ... .and this is the cause of my choice of Gangehi Island Resort, which is located just next to a pass in the west of North Ari Atoll.
The day of my arrival to the resort I went to look for the list of excursions. The excursion to the sighting of mantas was already present and it was scheduled for the following Monday, after three days.
We immediately registered. My husband and I were the second pair (the minimum number of participants was 6, the maximum number was 12).
After two days the seats were already all sold out.
On monday morning, at 10:00, we started with the speedy boat. With us there were other 8 adults, three kids, the marine biologist Valerie who accompanied us and three seamen. While browsing, Valerie gave us informations about the size of manta rays and their nutrition, explained to us how we should behave in the water, where we shouldn't have put ourselves, to make sure that mantas were not scared because of our presence.
The day seemed perfect, warm and quiet, with the calm sea. In 15-20 minutes by boat, we reached the place indicated by the biologist and we started to search the sea all around ... and shortly after one of us has seen a dark silhouette near the surface! To me it seemed to see a large black shape that was on the verge of the surface of the water and we started all excited shouting "there ... there ... there."
We quickly wore mask, snorkel and fins, and we fell into the water, in small groups of 2-3 people, trying not to make too much confusion. When I fell into the water, I saw immediately beside me a large manta which was passing, with with wide open "wings"... it was about two meters wide. Manta turned on her stomach and then it flew into the blue on my right. Shortly after a second manta passed under me, fast and deep enough ... luckily this I could take at least one photo !!!
Someone in the group said they saw three mantas, other four mantas... I only two, but what a thrill!
As manta rays moved away quickly from us, we were back on speedy-boat to look for another sighting point on the way back ... and instead we crossed a large group of dolphins, which were doing laps and stunts in the water. They were little ones, but really a lot, they seemed united in small families, groups of 2, 3 or 4.
Gangehi was now in sight, down the passageway that connects to the ocean, and the return time was near. We are therefore stayed to enjoy the dolphin show for 10-15 minutes, then quickly we went back to the resort.
Beautiful excursion but, not completely satisfied ... after three days, on Thursday, my husband and I wanted to try our luck and we participated again to the same trip.
This time with the speedy-boat we went to another area of the sea different than the first time, to the north.
We have reached a point where another small boat had already stopped. In the water there were already four people who swam and you could see just off the now familiar shapes of manta rays.
Also this time we fell quickly into the water, but I had time only to see one manta that slipped very quickly beneath me toward the deep blue of the sea.
We were 14 people, definitely too many, and most likely the mantas were frightened.
We climbed aboard and then we have long tried to see some of them....
At first our speedy-boat went to the south, then to west, entered the open ocean through the pass beside Gangehi, still to south, turned next to the Nika resort, then to "home" ... nothing!
For consolation the biologist Valerie allowed us to do 15 minutes of snorkeling in a reef very nice not far from Gangehi ....
Probably for this year the season of mantas is over around here... be content!
P.S. Four days after this excursion, while we were doing snorkeling in Kandu Pass in front of the bar, my husband and I have met, very close, a manta only to ourselves, wonderful, which quietly was continuing on its way to the ocean! My husband was able to give her a short film. In the evening, after having told the biologist Valerie, she asked us a copy of the movie, to check on the internet if the manta we sighted had already been reported previously ... otherwise we could give it a name !!! ... fingers crossed !!!!
Stayed May 2015, in room 63
Leisure > With partner | 26 May 2015
Very Good
Reef and restaurant
Some little things
PLANTS and other
In the island the trees are not dense and, apart from the palms, they do not appear to be very old (they don't have a wide foliage or a huge trunk like the very big banyan tree that I had seen in Biyadhoo, for instance).
The biologist Valerie once a week is available to take you on a naturalistic tour to discover the plants of the island.
Valerie made us to know the "spider lily" or "poison lily" and its poisonous characteristics, the yellow hibiscus and the red one, other typical Maldivian plants that well tolerate the salty environment as the "seashore screw pine" and the "tree heliotrope ", and a banyan tree ... I do not know how old was that plant , to eye the trunk could have had a diameter of about one meter ... it seemed small to me, thinking back with a bit of nostalgia to the huge banyan tree in Biyadhoo!
During the same tour then she accompanied us to see an inside corner of the island, where many leaves are amassed, all which are daily raked and collected from the wooden footpaths or on the sand in every corner of the resort. From that huge pile of leaves they would have made the fertile soil, useful for growing of many young seedlings, well arranged in vases of various sizes in an area near there.
In the same area a kind of canopy made of a network held several orchid plants of various colors and sizes, planted and grown in clay pots, wooden, in coconuts, pieces of wood or even pieces of concrete. The orchid, she explained, does not require much water to live, because its aerial roots, thin and dry, absorb water from atmospheric moisture.
In Gangehi orchids are everywhere: in front of the SPA, at the library, in the bathrooms next to the diving, at the reception, many of them are hung along the road that takes you to the bar and boutique ... a marvel of colors and scents.
The last point I want to make about this resort is that I noticed in all the staff a great attention to the respect and protection of the environment, starting from recommendations on moderate use of water and electricity to the invitation to bring back used batteries and any other material, difficult to dispose of, the recommendations, sometimes unfortunately not heard from some tourists, not to touch or step on the corals, not to harass turtles and fish, and not to buy souvenirs made from coral or fish teeth.
The biologist greatly strives with her recommendations on this subject every day, when she makes her guided snorkeling, and always calls, when she can, those who goes too close to the coral with feet or fins.
There is not much entertainment in the island: it is very soft for both adults and children.
Everyone is very friendly and willing to help you in every way, but no one gets to ask you to participate in this or that activity.
In the morning at 10.30 Stefania is available close to the strip of sand to propose you to do some 'muscle awakening' , then at 12:00 a little water aerobics next to Kandu Bar.
At 16.00 instead the marine biologist takes you to snorkel from the beach; the meeting point is always at the Kandu Bar.
At 17.00 , for those who want, there is the beach volleyball in the little volleyball field in the middle of the island, and at 17.30 a little of yoga, meeting point at the reception.
In the evening, very often, there is something at about 21:30.
On Saturdays, for example, the theme is dedicated to the sea, it is the '' Ocean Day "and the biologist shows a sea video very nice, which is preceded by a brief commentary (accompanied by images) on the need to have certain behaviors which are respectful of the marine environment in all its aspects.
In another evening there is a fashion show with clothes sold by the boutique ... and extraction of two small prizes among the participants ....... unfortunately I seem to have noticed that participation in each of the proposed activities is rather poor and it gives little satisfaction to the animators!
Stayed May 2015, in room 63
Leisure > With partner | 26 May 2015
Very Good
reef and restaurant
SPIT of SAND
Since about the bar and restaurant I will speak in the section reserved for them, now I want to tell you about the beautiful strip of sand that characterizes this island.
It 'wonderful, long, white, ... it is in the west area of the island between the bar and the Overwater Villas and it extends towards the sea between a huge green and blue lagoon on the right and the deep blue sea on the left. When it emerged, at the height of low tide, you get the impression that it is at least a kilometre long.
Walking along this strip of sand often you can see black-tip sharks, small gray or mustard-coloured breeds and other fish that swim in the sea just a few steps away from you, or meeting groups of seabirds that stop on the sand, then stand up to your passage and soon after, they lean a little further away or behind you.
At the beginning of the strip of sand is a large rocking, next to the trees and there is also a little shed, which has canoes available for guests who would like to do a tour around the island in a different way. Nearby you can find then a shower, various sun umbrellas with loungers and a hammock, this firmly planted in the sea just a few steps from the shore and much used, mainly to take souvenir photos.
This beautiful spit of sand is used not only for relaxing or romantic walks (while we were guests in Gangehi we saw two brides, who made a photo shoot there),but also to start snorkeling in Kandu Pass. In fact, since in the passage of blue sea that joins Gangehi, appropriately called Kandu Pass, the sea current almost always pushes the waves to the island to the east, the marine biologist Valerie has taught us that it is better to enter into the water to the reef left, from the end (or the center) of the stretch of sand, then gently kicking, pushed by the current, to the east and finish in front of the bar, where you can go back to shore without difficulty.
Defects? ... well, unfortunately the strip of sand isn't there throughout the day, emerging only during low tide, at least during the period in which I was in Gangehi. At high tide, in some points, it is submerged at least by 70-80 centimeters of water. We could walk on dry sand only in the morning, after breakfast, for a couple of hours, then the water began to rise. At most of the high tide even some sun beds had their little legs of wood in water .... it was a pity!!!
In my opinion the reef of Gangehi is very beautiful.
It is true that the corals along the Kandu Pass are ruined and somewhat white, but in the lagoon to the south and east are really beautiful, especially offshore. That area is in fact also called "coral garden".
We did not find, as in Biyadhoo, many "clouds" of fish, but none can certainly say that the fish is missing !!!
I saw fish of all kinds, including some that I had never seen, and turtles every day (in one day once we have counted even four of them!) ... .little sharks over a meter long, which were above the reef or in the blue sea, whitetip and blacktip, napoleon fish, ball, box, emperor angel, angel yellow face, surgeon, butterfly, huge parrot (they were really XXL size, never seen so big !!), morays very big (and a small and thin brown clear that lined the bar, among sharks) .. and the list goes on for much longer ... it's better that you look at the photos, which I have already put (are so many!).
We even met a MANTA, in Kandu Pass, almost in front of the bar, doing snorkeling one morning.
Other animals in the island? I saw (but never heard the verse) only one timid white-breasted waterhen, many spiny lizard while they were climbing trees or were running on the sand, crabs ( by the sea on the rocks and also on earth ... one, white with a black spot, has his burrow under a broad-leafed plant next to the reception!), a few little geckos, several large ants (also at sea, sometimes on the sun beds), the usual heron, some small parakeets (or similar) in a cage next to the Garden Villa.
I saw a couple of times also a beautiful flying fox (giant fruit bat) flying at sunset with its wide open wings among the trees in the bar area.
I did not see or hear mosquitoes ... very well!
Oh, I forgot: there was also a shy white and red cat, almost always hidden under the wooden walkways.
There are, about a dozen meters from the shore to the south, the anti-erosion stone walls. They are not beautiful, of course, but they are certainly useful to protect the beach by the continuing erosion of the waves. They are made from pieces of rock covered with a metallic net and at different points there are some small corals that are now colonizing. Fish come in and out quietly from the net (you will see it also in the photoes) and one day (leaving a passage between two walls with the biologist for snorkeling) we even saw a big moray eel coming out with its head from the net . It was a bit impressive having to swim over its head, a little more than half a meter away, but there were no problems for anyone. ... when we returned it was gone, and we all wondered how it did to enter and leave an opening so narrow ...
Stayed May 2015, in room 63
Leisure > With partner | 24 May 2015
Very Good
reef and restaurant
In Gangehi there are different types of accommodation. I will start from the most economic, the Club Room, very interesting especially for those who, like me, does not give importance to their room, believing that in the room you go almost exclusively to sleep.
There are six rooms (from number 60 to 65) smaller than the Beach Bungalows. Except the 64 and 65, which are larger, they are about 35 square metres, but have everything you need (you can also see from the photos that I put): double bed, wardrobe with two doors, a shelf and a safe deposit box, a large mirror, a chest of drawers with 3 drawers, two armchairs, a small table with two drawers (wide but shallow) , a very well stocked mini-bar, two small tables with lamp next to the bed.
The bathroom has a large shower, a toilet, a ceramic sink resting on a long wooden counter, a large mirror, another mirror (small, round, with lens) on a retractable arm, three small shelves, a towel rail (with towels and bathrobes) and the hair dryer.
Cleaning is carried out twice a day and daily are also changed all the towels, for bath and those for the sea . I had the room number 63. Beach umbrellas and sun beds for these rooms are to twenty meters, on the south beach, next to those reserved for Beach Bungalows. My beach umbrella was even in the front row, facing the sea !!!! Each umbrella has next two wooden beds, quite dated, with over a soft mattress.
Within the island, heading west after the Ginger SPA, there are three Beach Garden or Garden Villas, identical to the Beach Bungalows, but placed inside, about twenty meters from the narrow sandbank, where are their umbrellas with loungers.
Then there are the Beach Bungalows or Beach Villas. They are twenty bungalows of about 64 square meters (including the terrace facing the sea), placed along the southeast side of the island, roughly from the wharf up to the bar, except two (numbers 20 and 21) which are on the west side, a little hidden by vegetation, near the narrow sandbar. Whereas the only beach of the island (apart from the strip of sand, which deserves a separate discussion) lies to the south, for those who want to have the sand in front of their accomodation, these bungalows are the ideal solution ... except for numbers 17, 18 and 19, next to Kandu Bar, which have in front of only a few rocks and a ladder to descend to the sea. Their beach umbrellas with loungers are located in south beach, next to the other umbrellas of Club Rooms.
There is also a Family Villa, very spacious (about 76 square meters), with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, also suitable for large families, on the east side, just at the right of the pier, enough near to the reception.
Finally there are the Overwater Villas.
The Overwater are of two types: the Overwater Villas (which are 8, about 76 square metres, painted white, on the west of the island, and they are joined two by two by a single pier) and the Deluxe Overwater Villas, much larger (about 102 square meters). These are eight , but six of them have a terrace facing the sunset, while two have it facing the sunrise. Among the Deluxe Overwater Villas, four are on the same pier that leads to Thari Restaurant, the other four are in line with the Overwater Villas.
I think these are the Deluxe Overwater which will get a restoration during the month of June, when Gangehi will close for about a month.
All types of rooms are equipped with air conditioning, thanks to a heat exchanger also acts as a water heater. Just leave it on for a minimum of two hours a day to have hot water. This small and ingenious invention allows the resort to save about 1200 kW a day, and I do not think it is little !!!
Oh, I forgot ... along the wooden footpaths occasionally there are some bowls in concrete, which serve as any garbage holder, and identical bowls are next to each Villa, filled with water, to rinse off your feet from the sand before entering the room.
When you go to the bar or to the restaurant, you can not help but dwell to look at the well-stocked boutique, located just to the right, next to the passage leading to the restaurant.
Already through the showcase you can see carts full of hangers with a remarkable assortment of shirts, dresses, sundresses, shorts, sarong... in addition to many local crafts items for children and adults who remember the fish of Maldives in various ways.
Even outside, under a porch, there are mannequins wearing colorful clothes that change daily and, in front of the entrance, on either side, there are two tailors who work constantly to sew or change pants, shirts or other on request.
Stayed May 2015, in room 63
Leisure > With partner | 23 May 2015
Very Good
reef and restaurant
Because I have so many things to write, I will divide my review in parts
first part: THE RESORT
The first important thing to know is that in Gangehi there is one hour more than in Malè, very useful to make the best use of the sunny hours of the day, and therefore during the spring and the summer, the hours of difference with Italy are four .
The island is very small (only 200 m to 150 m.), and when you come from the jetty and you are greeted by Alessandro who tells you everything, you are surprised by how many things this little island can contain.
Next to the reception, to the left, there is the Diving Center, with four instructors very prepared. Currently the instructors are Gennaro, Carlotta, Roberto (from Italy) and a Maldivian, whose name I don't remember..
We did not use the Diving Center, because we aren't sub, so I can not tell much more.
Above the diving you will find a TV room and a gym, that, as Alessandro explains, can be used always in the 24 hours of the day.
My husband and I have got to use both.
We stayed in the TV room one evening, when the uncertain weather has forced the island's marine biologist, Valerie, to move the vision of a video about underwater life from the courtyard of the SPA, as it was planned, to the TV room, sheltered from bad weather.
The TV room is a spacious room, with a television set wide enough, with the floor covered with carpet and several rows of chairs very comfortable, thanks to the presence of soft cushions. In the last row next to the wall, the chairs are replaced by high armchairs.
In the gym instead, we have been several times, to pass the time after sunset, when we didn't want to stay longer on the beach, waiting for dinner time.
Also the gym has the floor covered with carpet and it is very beautiful, because one side has an entire wall of glass, from which you see the sea, the pier, the green of the trees and the road that are in front of Diving , and the wall opposite to this is covered by mirrors, which make it seem huge and that reflect also what you can see outside.
The exercise equipment (two stationary bikes, a treadmill, a bench and other minor) are strategically placed so that, while you use them, you can enjoy the beautiful view outside.
It's really relaxing ride on the exercise bike, leaning on their comfortable back, watching the sea!!!
The environment is also air-conditioned, so you're just fine.
Continuing to the left, there is the "clinic", which consists in a tiny room, where a very kind doctor is available to tourists free of charge for many hours of the day, both in the morning than in the afternoon. In the "clinic" a small shelf puts on show several drugs, which the doctor gives almost free of charge to guests who might need it for any small emergencies (you should pay only 15 euro once, even if you used the service more than once).
After the "clinic", always moving toward the left, you will find the Club Rooms.
To the right of the reception instead, a bit more towards the interior of the island, there is the Ginger SPA, very special, consisting of four small buildings arranged in a square with an inner courtyard, with a colonnade that resembles the palaces of the ancient Romans.
In front of the entrance a large concrete bowl is decorated with fresh flowers every morning, every time changing the colors and composition. At the SPA, in addition to the usual massages and relaxing and beauty treatments, you can also make free use of the showers (complete with towels), if the last day of stay, waiting for departure with the seaplane and having already checked-out from the room, you'd need to wash.
Behind the reception, next to the SPA, there is the library, which consists of two small rooms very tidy and quiet. In a small room there are two internet terminals, freely available to the tourists, in the other a large number of books or magazines (around 2000) in various languages, neatly arranged on shelves and divided by language or theme (there are even history books and many cartoons). The books are mostly in Italian, but there are also books in English, German, French, Russian, Chinese, Swedish ...
The footpaths of the island are all elevated, made with wooden boards and wide enough to let pass two people comfortably, or the island's workers who have to go with their wheelbarrows laden with sheets, towels and all necessary things for cleaning or for supplies of the bar and of the restaurant.
There are footpaths everywhere, functional and practical; they are comfortable because you can get your feet out of the sand and in case of bad weather they aren't wet. A footpath goes around the island and from this the branches depart for the various bungalows and other buildings.
Each Beach Bungalow has its own wooden footpath, while there is a wooden footpath (which becomes pier) every two overwater bungalows, a footpath to the Club Rooms, one that crosses the island in half, starting from the main pier, ... and eventually all arrive to the Restaurant Veli and to Kandu Bar, which is the main meeting point, both for the proposed activities for relaxation and refreshment.
Here, unlike my husband who really appreciated them very much, I liked very little all these footpaths, I would rather walk with the sand underfoot ... I seemed to remove room for nature, which here is already so beautiful without being too changed.
Going towards the Kandu Bar from Club Rooms or Beach Bungalows, that are located on the east side of the island, you pass alongside a pitch for volleyball, where every day at 17 you can go for a game.
As required by law Maldivian, in this island is also a small very pretty mosque, with the green roof. Next to the entrance is also equipped with three valves in order to clean up yourself before entering.
Stayed May 2015, in room 63


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ORLANDO — Few men love point guards the way Minnesota Timberwolves general manager David Kahn does. He is, after all, the man who selected three in the first round of the 2009 NBA Draft (Ricky Rubio, Jonny Flynn and Ty Lawson) and has taken the heat from us over the years for his fetish.
Kahn's acquired (and traded) a few point guards during his tenure as well. And Timberwolves coach Rick Adelman routinely deploys three (Rubio, Luke Ridnour and J.J. Barea) at a time late in games.
Kahn's crazy, point guard-fueled master plan seems to be working, though. The Timberwolves head into All-Star weekend at .500 or better for the first time since the 2004-05 season, courtesy of Ridnour's buzzer beater last night over Utah.
We're not ready to proclaim this a playoff team, but with a bevy of options in the backcourt and All-Star Kevin Love, promising rookie Derrick Williams and surprise talent like Nikola Pekovic to flesh out the frontcourt mix, this team is well on its way to becoming a legitimate factor in the playoff race for seasons to come.
When Kahn makes the rounds here for All-Star weekend, he'll likely get a much different reception in some corners than has in years past. The fact that he fought conventional wisdom in building this team says a lot about Kahn. In a league that rewards risk takers, Kahn just might cash in with his unorthodox roster.
It certainly helps to have Adelman running the show. A young All-Star like Love and a potential All-Star point guard like Rubio speed up the process as well. But it's role players like Ridnour, Barea and the others that will make the transition smoother for all involved.
We talked to Love about it on Episode 69 of the Hang Time Podcast a couple of weeks ago. The first step in the process of rising from the NBA cellar is the collective belief in the blueprint. The Timberwolves believe. You don't win some of the games they have this season and not believe.
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Food & Drink
Nephew's now in driver's seat with Greek food truck
The late George Ouraniou left his mark on Lexington by providing authentic Greek dishes to Central Kentuckians at a time when there were few ethnic restaurants in town. Ouraniou served his Greek specialties at many community events, and now his nephew Ilias Pappas is carrying on tradition by taking over Ouraniou's mobile food vendor business, the Athenian Grille.
The food truck will be at these locations through Oct. 26: 3454 Richmond Road, next to Glenn Auto Mall; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday; and West Sixth Brewery, 501 West Sixth Street, 5 to 10 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The menu includes spinach pie, moussaka, Greek salad, hummus, baklava and gyros. Call (859) 351-1605 or go to Facebook.com/AthenianGrilllex.
■ Julian Van Winkle III, president of Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery in Frankfort, will join chef Jonathan Lundy for a special dinner Thursday at Jonathan at Gratz Park for the third year in a row. The restaurant, 120 West Second Street, will be closed for normal service, and there are limited reservations available for the dinner.
The five-course menu will complement whiskeys that will not arrive in retail stores until later this year. Included are Old Rip Van Winkle 10 year 107 Proof and Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve 20 year. Cocktails start at 6:30 p.m. followed by dinner seating at 7. Cost is $120. Call (859) 252-4949.
■ The menu for Saturday's Dinner Night at the Greek Orthodox Church will feature specialties from Romania. Vlad Radulescu, a Lexington physician, will prepare the dinner, and wines will be provided by River Bend Winery. Hours are 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The menu includes roasted pork, sauerkraut rolls and Romanian beef sausages. The church is at 920 Tates Creek Road. Go to Greekdinner.com.
■ Lover's Leap Vineyards & Winery, 1180 Lanes Mill Road, Lawrenceburg, will hold its first fall fling from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. There will be live music from 1 to 3 p.m., and food will be provided by Talk of the Town in Lawrenceburg. Proceeds go to the Anderson Humane Society. Call (502) 839-1299 or go to Loversleapwine.com.
■ The South Limestone Association of Merchants is having a Rally Time block party Friday for the University of Kentucky homecoming. Businesses along the street will have special deals. Kennedy Book Store will hand out free UK basketball calendars until 6 p.m. and Pazzo's Pizza Pub will have half-price appetizers from 4 to 7 p.m. Tin Roof, Local Taco and Two Keys also are participating.
■ Holiday flavors have returned to Graeter's. The ice cream shop at 836 Euclid Avenue is scooping cinnamon, pumpkin, eggnog and peppermint stick through the end of December. Call (859) 253-6741 or go to Graeters.com.
■ Ted's Montana Grill has given its Web site, Tedsmontanagrill.com, a new look that includes several new features, including direct e-gift card purchase. Go to Facebook.com/tedsmontanagrill for a chance to win gift cards for complimentary menu items through Dec. 31. Ted's is at 2304 Sir Barton Way. Call (859) 263-5228.
■ Old Chicago, 1924 Pavilion Way, is having a Halloween mini tour featuring eight seasonal beers, including Woodchuck seasonal cider, Blue Moon harvest pumpkin ale, Widmer Brothers pitch black IPA and New Castle werewolf. Call (859) 977-4640 or go to Oldchicago.com/lexington.
■ Saul Good Restaurant & Pub and founder Rob Perez have received national recognition in the trade publication Nation's Restaurant News. You can read how the sports-bar concept appeals to female consumers at Nrn.com/article/growth-chains-saul-good-restaurant-pub.
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■ Myka Smith-Jackson, a winner of the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge sponsored by Epicurious and Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative, will be at Lexington Farmers Market on Saturday. She will partner with Alex Jenkins, chef at Good Foods Market and Café, to use fresh market ingredients to prepare her winning recipe for perfect curry chicken wraps. The wraps may be sampled from 9 to 11 a.m. at Fifth Third Bank Pavilion in Cheapside Park. Go to Lexingtonfarmersmarket.com.
■ Bluegrass Farmers' Market will have tomatoes, winter squash, eggplant, peppers, beer cheese, baked goods, soup bean mix, greens, sweet potatoes, eggs, herb seasoning, jams and pumpkins. Hours are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at 3450 Richmond Road, in the parking lot of Pedal the Planet and Fast Signs. Go to Localharvest.org/blog/29529.


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When Strange Brewing owner Tim Myers runs short of a particular type of hops on a brew day, there's an easy fix.
The microbrewer borrows some from one of the three other breweries in the 3-mile stretch of west Denver that he's dubbed the "Beermuda Triangle."
"Small guys like us are pretty lucky," Myers said.
A low-key, locals-focused approach adopted by Strange and many more in Colorado's newest wave of craft breweries has kept business collegial and collaborative even as competition spikes elsewhere in the industry.
Myers is part of a panel that the Great American Beer Festival — which opened Thursday in Denver — aimed at promoting the small, tasting-room-centric models that have made it easier than ever to open shop in Colorado.
Scott Witsoe opened Wit's End Brewing in an industrial park off South Federal Boulevard a year ago. His one-barrel-at-a-time brewing setup qualifies him as a nanobrewer.
He attributes the rise of the neighborhood taproom to permissive state laws and trailblazers such as Myers and Kevin DeLange at Dry Dock Brewing, who regularly counsel the increasing number of would-be brewers following in their footsteps.
But perhaps most influentially, it's a model that's doable on a budget and in a tight credit market.
Craft breweries with big distribution plans can range into the seven figures for a start-up. A simpler brew-to-tap system can be launched with personal savings or a small loan.
"You walk into a Great Divide, and your head explodes. You think, 'How can I do that?' " Witsoe said. "We started out just myself and my wife. We had no investors, and that made a lot of decisions very easy."
Myers, who opened Strange in May 2010 with business partner John Fletcher, has welcomed taprooms such as Wit's End into the neighborhood and offered help to even farther-flung new breweries such as Copper Kettle in southeast Denver and the newly opened Hogshead in the Highland neighborhood.
Craft-beer drinkers by nature crave variety, and a concentration of smaller shops brewing a broad range of beers is more likely to draw traffic to the area, he said.
"I don't really think of other brewers as competition," Myers said. "When Renegade Brewing came in (a mile away), our business went up."
Earlier this month, Harry Smith and Lila Mackey signed a lease for space in the "Beermuda Triangle" for Black Sky, their metal- music-themed brewery set to open in March.
The couple pointed out that before Prohibition, every neighborhood or cluster of factories had a bar serving beer made on site and pints poured by the brewer himself.
They see similar potential in the craft-beer explosion, propelled in part by the burgeoning buy-local movement.
Plus, they just like the one-on-one contact with customers.
"That's the way it should be again," Smith said. "We're going to start small and keep it small, so it stays special."
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The Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) measures the
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of the energy of incoming electrons; its energy range is 0.7 to 30,000
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ratio of an ion; its energy range is 1 electron volt to 50 kilo-electron
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kilo-electron volts.