We had the incredible opportunity to Free dive with Whale Sharks and a whole squadron of Manta rays in the Maldives. Honestly, words don’t really do it justice… so I’ll let the video do the talking.

We stayed on this little local island in the Maldives called Dharavandhoo (highly recommend!) at the cutest boutique hotel called Athirige — and it only cost us 75 CAD a night including breakfast. Absolute steal.

And with all the money we saved not sleeping in a floating villa with glass floors, we went all in on diving and freediving trips.

By the way, if you click on this Agoda link to Athirige, you’ll notice it is 75$ instead of 100$ with Booking. This is why it really pays off to check the hotel prices on several platforms (This is one of our money saving hacks!)