Maldives

The adventure of the Maldives

The aircraft landed at fur-Island Airport, near to the capital male ', the local tour guide then we walk 5 minutes from the airport to the pier.

Here's the "corridoni boat", a speedboat, seaplanes is connecting the airport and the resort's main transport. "Ship" Adoni (Dhonis), hull, sail-truss, nails, rope to sail are derived from coconut trees, bearing the local indigenous people in 2000 and the sea with history. The guide explains that, as early as a.d. 150 years, many from East Africa, the Arab States of the craft, in the navigation in found beautiful and tranquil Maldives have appropriate parking port, it also has a crush on the island. This mini small nearly 99% of the area covered by the ocean, a small atoll 1190 form the Maldives Islands. In which 200 have the inhabitants of the island, has 73 holiday island hotels, living with 27 million inhabitants, perched 1350 species of coral and fish. Here's the four seasons such as the weather is warm in summer, the average annual temperature is 25-30 degrees. The Maldives are a perfect blend of Arab, African and Asian beautiful beauty, they lived a simple, carefree and myself full of life. This is a very friendly, helpful, make guests feel at home feeling.

Fantasy Island

Our accommodation is in the Fantasy Island of small villa, built in wood frame cottage, by a long wooden bridge extends to a full 100 m above sea level, it is connected on both sides look like floating residence in pavilions at sea.

Long foot room here is the blue of the sea, coral, coral, fish, each villa room has a sea of stairs, shower head, sooner or later at any time to swim, dive. We are very excited to put down your luggage and ran his own balcony viewing the scenery, the Convention tomorrow who like to wake up early, must look at the sunrise. Along the way, I found the island all buildings have cement and reinforced, all small villa, bars, restaurants, and other housing from outside to inside are made from local natural materials. I then carefully observe their own live in seawater long foot room, nor is a modern building materials, needless to say, the cement and steel with a metal nail. The roof is covered with Palm leaf, a tree of Windows and doors, beams, columns, housing all hemp rope tied ying, watching really worrying sea winds will blow out the roof. However, I heard that there are no typhoons, earthquakes tsunamis are rare, the whole island was sung dense tropical plant covered with flowers.

In the evening we took part in Beach, candle light dinner buffet, romance, music, wave sound, commodities, wine lovers in a whisper.

Many foreigners spirits very strong barefoot dancing on the beach, in the old jump slow step Waltz, young people around the fire and local actress feverishly Rumba. I'm sitting on a rattan chair, drink a drink with friends. When friends tired when you want to go back to rest, I still have no sleep spirit full, watching and deep sea, I habitually recalls his own life, fancy 60-year-old also to the global top ten most beautiful islands of the Maldives to enjoy. People here from all the troubles of the world, war, fear, strife, busy work, the city's pollution, really enjoy tranquil tranquil life. Candlelight dinner always noisy till midnight, in the back rest of the road, I saw some drunk foreigners, hum a tune stumble touch back their small villa.

Day dawn, I was woken up with the Group of friends, opened the door to the balcony, suddenly shouted, fiery red sun rising from the sea, a beautiful sunset people were fascinated.

We live in a cottage in the sea front, back, left, and underneath the House is the sea, completely surrounded by the sound of the waves, this unique building with sea sea scenery is beautiful. Especially in the morning and two hours to watch the sunrise and sunset, is the most beautiful life.

Tour of the features of small island

Malé is the world's smallest capital city, area only 2.5 square kilometers with a population of only about 10 million, and a district in Shanghai.

The city is no taxi, companions will take a guided tour walking tours, walking tours, I call a familiar locals, motorcycle sightseeing around the island along the edges. A circle around the island less than half an hour. I find that the city does not have an asphalt road, looking to make a white brick laying of Pak Sha Road, every 100 meters there is a yellow slow broadband. Bright white coral reefs and mostly painted blue and green doors and Windows in sharp contrast, very few modern high-rise building, a house usually build tall and narrow, it is said that in order to avoid the demons invaded. As had been under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom, so there is also a part of the building with a strong English atmosphere. In this Pocket countries, car seems to be superfluous, it is not a cyclist is walking. Malé is the traditional and modern life in harmony, it is a Muslim society, religious practices, behave and dress are to remain upright, nudity is illegal. No wonder it's so hot, man did not wear a vest, a woman wearing a black turban wearing black clothes, wrapped from head to toe yanyanshishi. Here the resort there is no gambling and pornography sites, national laws is strictly prohibited to carry an obscene materials, weapons and drugs, immigration, and offenders will be punished.

Pak Sha Road, is the most important streets in male ', there are many here, as well as business hotel was built in 1913 in the Presidential Palace.

In addition, there are built in 1656 by the ancient mosque and 1675 year completed the magic of Islam minaret, the white buildings can still clearly see the inscription of the Qur'an. There are also available for viewing by the dynasty of ancient Sudan Sudan Park, it was established in 1968, the Maldives Republic was destroyed, although today there are only a small building, is still relatively intact the spirit of the ancient cultures of the Sudan.

Local residents used to live a simple life, simple and want to experience the local life should go to the fish market.

There is the island capture fisheries production of auction Center, near dusk, every day, there were repeated cries, cries of the texture to draw Island dynamic aspect. Fish market has specialized for meat of peeling, a 4-foot fish, just one minute, then it is divided into skin, bone, meat three copies. Guy riding a bike in the city with meInside pocket for an hour before they go back to the Terminal, when I paid the fare of $ 60, also added his ten dollars a tip, man is very happy, a man bought a bag of stuff for me, there are drinks and local food and local specialties, and has been with me in simple English and rigid a few words of Chinese, plus signs pointing to chat. I know that effect: he lives a good, happy, tourism development, young people are leaving the island, like living in the capital, Malé, where living modern, easy to make money. He waited until our team to give me a guide to safe walk away.

We then visited a Muslim man living features small island, the island only 800 inhabitants, but nothing, schools, hospitals, water factory, shop and the Church, the Church men and women separately, but the primary and secondary school is a coeducational.

Islander average monthly income of 200 dollars, engaged in the fishery and tourism. The island is full of beautiful Palm and characteristic bread tree, it is said that once upon a time the locals took the bread tree when food, now is the time to watch. The Islanders to build applications for land not money when, after the approval of their own country. Here are free to education, health care, College, so ill have to go to the capital male '. The guide said: once upon a woman who does not work on the island, is now done. I want to visit a family, the Guide promised, but make it a condition to visiting the finish to his shop patronize buy something, we agree. In fact, the host was behind in the store, house furniture is very simple, very strong Muslim character, the hostess in the sewing machine, start we thought it was done at home clothes, carefully whether it is engaged in sewing industry, the village families many young women are doing. We selected a variety of special items that many things are his wife behind processing. We found that the village is cheaper than Island shops, have been very happy with your purchase, master has sent us very far.

The Maldives Islands have variety-style hotels to choose from various styles of tourist resort islands to different forms of life at Sea cruise.

Big South male ' atoll waves for surfing, fishing, snorkeling, tourists can get. Now, there are a lot of rich people like the Maldives this God benefit holiday treasure, many islands as long as you are viewing, the local people which rich suddenly become rich. Maldives local spread so a true thing: an island residents austerelives, daily fun is watching while the coconut fell, until one day, a hotel booking his island development resort. Today, he is no longer concerned with coconut, every day the number of banknotes are falling. Tourist guides say more than 1000 in Maldives Islands, this miracle occurred on more than one class, we live in a Neverland of fat boss wife years ago is poor, is now a rich woman. Maybe the Maldives is heaven for human holiday, tourism here almost means everything.

Maldives is one of the three great dive sites, dive in here if you don't really regret.

The next morning we sit "'s ship" into the sea, on a pair of submersible microscope, life jackets and foot Web. When I jumped into the crystal clear sea and fish dances, this feeling. I have many of the world famous sea underwater water, such as the United States, Hawaii, Australia's great barrier reef, South Africa Cape etc, each place has a different Department of fish and species and beautiful coral reef. While many of the Maldives Islands even if no diving, you can get involved in watching fish. The coral island, General shore 20 meters from the sea is not deep. In some places it is 30 meters away cliff-like fall, is also home to the largest number of fish. Me and my friends rental diving tools, select early-late every day in different places on the island into the sea, diving watches the sunlight in the morning, the underwater world beautiful dream as magic, water has many beautiful fish, we at diving areas and fish dances. With luck, you can see a small shark and Manta! friends foot hair long, underwater is small fish are mistaken as small insects! he happy like a child-like wonder.

The Maldives Government attaches great importance to the protection of the natural environment, it is said that the development of one island since the Government imposed a number of environmental initiatives, such as the laying of submarine cables, freshwater plants, sewage treatment facilities, etc., the ordinary millionaire has no ability to afford it.

The Government also has nearby sea whale and Dolphin listed as important to the conservation of biological, here there are 21 species of whale Habitat and dolphins, Islands waters into all kinds of marine life asylum. Local government customs also strictly forbidden to export corals, shells, and other habitats from the ocean.

Distress

In the Fantasy Island on the second day of the evening, we are a group of people in the white sand beach in the Sun.

Behind the beach there are dense tall dragon tree, coconut; beach is Lucy Belle, bare-chested light strong cant, youth of the elderly, joy jump after Urchin; tide waves like a line coming from the peels, low tides and churn out a piece of rock. I always daring, by yourself is a swim well, we'll go back to my dorm is impulse to make friends with the team: they want to reach out from Gulf tour back to the sea of long foot estates, hope that they help me to dress shoes back. Because we are swimming in a bowl of white sand shape is located east of, I want to swim to the accommodation, must swim out to 500 meters in front of the picket line, and then along the island to the South to swim, swim to the South side of the estimated residential approximately 2000 m of water, with my usual daily in Shanghai swimming pool exercise time distance should be no problem. Besides, I'm not the first time swimming in the sea, in recent years in China from North to South of Dalian has always had to swim across the ocean in Hainan, especially in a time of Qingdao, together with other people swim out to sea over 4000 meters far away, so I felt very confident. The problem is that I did not seriously consider that, in the China Sea I am not alone, is partnering with long distance swimming. It is, but today the continental beach is in the Indian Ocean in an island, and I'm here to the geographical environment, tides, wind direction completely in the dark, I feel is calm and no problems. Several gay know I won a national championship in Shanghai and is a good swimmer, but yesterday I saw a man in a long foot room residence sea swim 2000 meters distance, so just tell me to watch out for and have no objection,Female compatriots never advised me not to go too dangerous.

Always opinionated I launched after violently swam to the cordon, half an hour to just swim out of the cordon, I waved to the shore of peer a bit the hand, a strong pulls out the nets continue to swim.

Ten minutes later, I feel no, find that there are invisible in seawater, kept me suction to extrapolate, no matter how much time and effort trying to swim toward the target, but I do feel sucked off guard. I desperately want to grab a cordon outside sea buoys and lights up, but his ambition was a quickly and a low tide wave rolls out security zone. Then I really got the God. This is the low tide times, in a small Bay in the warning do not feel that it is a peripheral high wind waves. Surrounding the lightness and the crest of the sound of lapping the shore Reef and more light, I know I have been away from the beach and the island, more frantic rise in Visual, God has not seen and on the beach. I understand now swimming strength equal to white flowers, but also more farther away from the target with his strength. I began to decline significantly. Unaccompanied allows me time to panic, choke into a number of mouth water, feels limb began chills.

With the salt water immediately to my mind, this cost manual very dangerous, desperation I constantly warning yourself: cool! cool! save manual! no longer trying to swim! because rapid tide made me impossible to swim back.

I stepped on the water side desperately waving, hope associates and nearby Beach one can notice that I changed risk and is not used. In exhausted, I remember swimming coaches teach my method, do not be alarmed, only silently float on the sea, waves, the more I drifted farther away, was waiting for someone to rescue.

In times of crisis, I suddenly remembered the three brother told me things: 1964 he worked in the Zhoushan shipyard, in order to escape has been political persecution his mainland, often a person exercises long distance swimming, swim in the deep sea out of 10 000 m, will produce a feeling of fear, as if the boundless sea to swallow him.

I want to learn the strong third brother, do not easily give up, I will not die. First of all to save the manual, I believe that I don't have a Yu Fellows come back, will look for and issued a call for help. As expected, I felt as though a long period of time, hear the sounds near motorboat, and more than one, I tried calling waved. When I see more and more close to the lifeboats, life of hope and strength and made me desperately swim. When I hold the lifeboat throw lifejackets, mind Flash: saved!, truly experience what is the life-saving straw "fishing."

Pale black and not tempt me, by the local rescue groups like drag-and-drag on the boat as reservoir dogs.

Rescue man mouth constantly saying about severe dialect, I could not understand, but that is to blame, but his mouth side choke with water, while strongly indicates that lifesaving gratitude and thanks! I collapsed on sitting in the yards, big mouth spit out choke with water into the lungs. Ship to shore, I see a dock full of anxious on Chung. The original, with the mission to me at sea missing messages, anxiety, they came from all over to meet me. I have been carrying stretchers to rest Hall, a white doctor examined me, I'm trying to stand up and say: Okay, never mind! tried to call friends helping me back to the House of rest. When peer to tell me: when I go out from the guard tour soon disappear in their eyes, the sea ebb quickly get me out of the island which is about ten thousand meters, from the missing to the rescue there is already a lot of hours. I saw the fat lady boss stared straight to voice our group leader, tour guide screaming shouting, seem to blame them no good players. After-the-know she accused me of this adventure, because it is low tide time this evening, tour a cordon very dangerous, something they were not responsible. Companion all the way to send me back to the accommodation, but I myself feel gratitude and shame, sorry not heed advice made us worry about me.

In the evening to a restaurant for dinner, many foreigners to my friendly greeting to comfort me is scared.

Because the island is small, only a hundred people, so I do get alarmed the whole island. Team leaders and members were called the second bottle of red wine, be sure to surprise for my pressure, we were all abuzz about my missing at sea in a small time happened, as well as members and guests to panic on the island. Who told me: when they found out I swim out after orientation deviation from the target line, everyone began to panic, then realized that I was lost in the sea, the more fear, some people hurried to run to service Hall of the police, others have tried searching along the beach. There were many people on the beach to swim, I heard someone was out of tidal volume the cry of warning, some Hardy took the lifebuoy wanted to tour the cordon seeking help me, because the low tides and waves are large, have also returned, only two young whites, very brave hold lifebuoy continue to swim out picket line looking for me. The island of rescue boats received the alarm, the action very quickly, using radio waves, immediately notify several islands in the vicinity of the forward looking, they estimate I was carried away in the direction of the tide, there have been three Brown arrived at the scene of the yacht.

I want to find the two strangers "Yang Lei Feng" personally thank them, team leaders and tour guides with red wine with me at the buffet table is a table in the lobby to find, finally found two young people in Sweden.

I am very sincere thanks to their bow, although I'm not they save ashore, but the Chinese spirit really rare Lei feng. Night table, friends have friendly Corporation "denunciation" I: John said I "bold not terrible," and I "life seems very good luck", also know as I said, "is life, thirteen years in China during the cultural revolution was murdered in alien death, missing at sea can save. "The next day, I became the island news, people saw the umbrella walking limped I, seemed to talk: the old Chinese white hair and big foot is really big, how dare you out for disabled warning several kilometers, yesterday it was lucky escape.

In fact, what life good, lies in times of crisis, I have never given up live on their own, give up.

With this conviction, I will calmly think people with mission will go to the search and rescue, alarm and I myself can do is to save energy. IfFruit at that time I have lost confidence that I am afraid to more than one hour after the rescue boat arrived. Life of many situations are so similar, Ah, memories of my miscarriage of Justice was in the 4600 multiple days, suffering and despair, surrounded by a number of political prisoners can't long-term heart and physical torture have committed suicide, I have endured three brother's teachings and his contract all charges of Szechwan always tell myself to be strong and alive. Similarly, when I go into business for twenty years, also experienced hardships and even setbacks, with forged from the tribulations of the independent personality and not throw in the towel's will, I could hang up. Life's hardships not down with me, but again and again accumulate into the treasure of my life. This is probably my reasons to play in the Maldives.

PostScript

Writing this book, my mood is more complex.

In the writing process, some friends and relatives on my article views put forward different views: almost 30 years of reform and opening up, why not see national development improvements? why always see China's bad side? Yes, as a Chinese, why always have to devalue their motherland, said she's not? I not patriotic? or I fawning?

I have not read the University, 19-year-old life most eager for knowledge of youth, began to spend in prison.

Because the three GE case is concerned with the long-term as well, so I and cases and important political prisoners imprisoned together. Thirteen years in prison, I met a lot of life of the teacher and friend, and they are intellectuals, in addition to their knowledge, they are able to think independently and political hold unique insights. Political prisoners in prisons is my university life, and held together by the "reactionary academic authority", "go capitalist road" offspring of exchanges, I understand the Yan'an rectification movement and the founding of the first-party "high NAO events" and "right" Peng Dehuai anti truth; also helped me understand a series of ideological and political movement (inverse Hu, Hu Feng, in the anti-rightist, etc.) of the Insider. Only with those who are loyal to God who, before the liberation of religion in America in Japan, knowledge of foreign exchange of scholars, I wake up, have faith and truth, lies and deceit, ignorance and closed.

In addition to the three brothers, they are all my life, to acquire the knowledge and enlightenment of another important source.

In order to not waste time in prison, we have a few like-minded young people also make up a "reading" Sun Yat-Sen, around no one book per person to read the good book good works with oral communication, evaluation, argue, exploration. Remember that we also have analyzed China modern cultural personalities of temperament and fate, who the most spirited and who the most soft and who the most contemptible hateful? who is most influential in these zealous and? passion of thought convergence, I learned to think, understand the intellectuals and even an ordinary citizens for State responsibility to understand the nation, the State of health of normal development for personal happiness.

I put these understood as my original sense.

Rehabilitation after release coincided on China's reform and opening up of excellent year, I left the State units into business, UPS and downs of the business for over 20 years, and I experienced the reform and opening up, from the start, shaken to gradually embarked on an orderly process.

It is for these reasons, I would later travel abroad, naturally concerned about the country's political system, economic development and people's lives, and associate them with China for comparison and thinking.

So, I will record these thoughts into these text. aggregation

I'm not a scholar, writer, so this book or any other academic research, and even may be premature, biased, it was just an ordinary civil thinker on national destiny a sincere concern.

My book spans ideological chains, there are some things too complex, and I can only be questioned.

Book might stab some Chinese people strong national sentiment, or may offend some people with vested interests of reform and opening up; my writing principles is standing at the insist on objective stance, telling the truth and expose all the lies that have something they will say, something you write, do not regret. As long as you go, I will walk this way, writing it.

Perhaps it is because they hate love deep cut, so the text of this book is more of harassing a criticism but little compliment, because I think the success of reform and opening up the world to see, but our country stronger and more perfect is depends on our ability to address the existing problems, firmly to clear these problems exist.

Reflection and research, not only is the political scientists, economists, discoveries and questions is every citizen's responsibilities and obligations, and the Government's responsibility and obligation to address these issues.

That's why I said "evil", the scars of the mortgage.

Is it "know who knows me, knows I think that what I seek".

This book, and all concerned about China's future, able to think independently and to communicate with friends.

Liu Wen-chung

October 2007

Both go both written

Last November, this is a cultural revolution, this agreement is governed by order of the new sea country map Chi "publication, the time, I have set up this year's intends to second trip in the first half of the standard equipment to South America several personal main country, including self-study socialistic Cuba; the second half and then we will go to the East of the body «has solutions for several personal original self-study socialistic country look, including Czech and Zealand.

In the first half of the South American tour is taking place, so this reprint new Cuba.

After the publication of this book, I received multiple program review of the future supply of all time, having cooked identification friend, there are public knowledge, there are no phase identification has not also devises of friends.

He took some of the market I raised some good suggestions, some of the talk I pointed out that there is a problem loading data place, and I share ideas competition, different point of view, even from non-universal identification friend will and I talk on the telephone you a little time. The market for these review ' friend, I am thankful. Because he took that makes sense to this present yourself with the publication of the certificate or has to be on the "Italian £ define" value, so to me it is not their only only me and three brother raging soul exchange of products, where many have thought the 23 lapThink of China also related note with a problem in the certificate, the meaning of life, and the exploration of how these.

From the first the wind and rain on the way of life "open year-round for beginning, has become my well fun continues.

They often think of what the middle of the night, I'll be the guy up from bed to climb up from sitting in the front, is for computer video for "God's wife '," but many early 1903 慣 also makes business often four or five-minute break before dawn on open begins in East-West. Years of record, and never will a stare that good for computer is several personal small time until the eyes too much. I'm not using key keyboard, the phonetic typing or not, I made a list of its own hand, I have a friend help to install a special software, the mouse/i/o points out software on pen projects come out every word. And young people, I use the most awkward and technology use my cash generation of year-round for tools.

Abbreviation for my music.

As a China man to own some of life's experience with its own out my voice is my table Daman life, written out we were deceived by now sees more are my responsibilities and redirection service.

As long as you can also walk along walking stick "and I'll be going on and on, and written down.

Wishes to continue to operate and review to share experiences and exchange ideas.

For the second time after printing and second edition of the record.

Liu Wen-chung

In November 2008