Another last day...Maldives this time...

We are an hour from boarding the plane to Hong Kong, and I thought I could get the post done.  Capital city of The Maldives is Male...pronounced Molly...why they insist on spelling it wrong I have no idea.  Anyway, first place I've been to that was airport on one side, marina on the other!

...those are the boats that brought us back from the island we were on...Bandos.  We did a little exploring in Male this afternoon...Muslim everything...lots of women who looked like they were about to rob a bank...but didn't as far as I know.  Here is one of the big mosques behind a big tree...

...here's Cassandra heading into the national museum...

...the Chinese gov't donated the museum...nice ceiling...

...couldn't spend any time in a city without going to a market with Cassandra...anyone know what this stuff is?

...and I know Luf knows what this is...

...some of the people looked like this...

 ...we had tea at a cafe overlooking the port...

...then went to the old Muslim graveyard...

 ...got a little tired, so we took one of these back to the airport...

...they have soooo much perfect sand here that they dump it out by the airport to get rid of it!

...and this shot doubles as the sunset, and the town ferry...

...now, the Red Eye to Hong Kong!