Video summary
The video documents a comprehensive walking tour of Ukulhas Island, highlighting its compact size and serene atmosphere compared to larger destinations like Dhigurah. The journey begins on the north side, where visitors can access free gym equipment and benches, before moving south along the main street that runs from north to south through the center of the island. Despite the intense heat at 11 in the morning, the hosts emphasize the island's manageable scale, noting that one can explore the entire area within a single day. The walk reveals a mix of local life and development, including traditional chairs designed with nets to keep occupants cool by allowing airflow, as well as numerous villas and guest houses under construction, such as the Coral Queen Villa and Nala Valley.
A significant portion of the tour focuses on the island's vibrant marine industry and natural beauty. The hosts visit a local fish processing site where they observe the cleaning and drying of large pelagic fish, specifically identifying sailfish and marlin rather than tuna. This behind-the-scenes look offers tourists a rare glimpse into local livelihoods that are often missed by visitors to other islands. The walk continues along the coastline, showcasing crystal-clear turquoise waters and fine white sand, particularly during low tide. The beach is described as an ideal spot for relaxation and photography, featuring swings and cafes where guests can enjoy coffee with ocean views, while also noting the specific dress code that permits bikinis on designated areas but requires covering up when walking on the streets.
The video concludes by contrasting Ukulhas with other Maldivian islands, particularly praising its affordability and relaxed environment. Food prices are noted to be approximately 50% cheaper than in Dhigurah, making it an attractive destination for budget-conscious travelers. The hosts highlight the friendly nature of the locals and the stress-free lifestyle, observing that residents appear younger due to their lack of anxiety compared to city dwellers. Ultimately, the tour presents Ukulhas as a perfect getaway for those seeking a short, easy walk combined with beautiful beaches, affordable costs, and authentic cultural experiences without the exhaustion associated with longer island treks.
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Hi everyone. So today we are here at uh
north side of Ukulas and uh look at this
guys. You will see lots of gym equipment
and this is for free. You can just uh
drop by and use uh as much as you can.
Okay. And uh across is I don't know guys
if this is cool.
>> Looks like
>> it looks like it's cool.
And there are benches here. Maybe these
are for people waiting for the kids. But
you know what? There is no name. So we
we are not.
>> But it has the highest high standards of
academic scholarship.
>> Okay. So maybe this is cool. But yeah,
so I think it's cool.
>> Okay. And that end guys is uh so many
buildings being built like this one.
>> You can see the people there doing the
construction.
And we are going to the south of the
island of Okulas. And this is the main
street. And the reason why it is main
street is because there is sidewalk,
right?
>> And it runs north to south.
>> Pardon?
>> It runs north to south.
>> Yeah.
>> In the middle of the island.
>> Yes. So it is uh this uh sidewalk is
from north to south and vice versa.
>> Here. Here. This is the name of the
school.
>> Where? Oh,
now we find the name AA
Hahu School.
>> Yeah, that's the name.
>> But anyways guys, uh we are heading
south, but we will walk to this side.
Okay, because we already walk on this
side
>> on the street. Yeah.
>> So, we want to show you the different
side.
>> Oh, I think this is dead and two.
>> Dead and two. I think there is. No,
>> there. Okay. You want to check?
>> Let's check. Yeah. Okay. I hope there
is.
Wa. It's I can feel the heat.
>> Yes, it's too hot. Really hot.
>> What time is it?
>> It's only 11
>> 11 in the morning and it's too hot.
>> Yeah,
>> like really too hot. And uh before the
walk, I applied sunscreen.
>> Yeah.
>> And this is their traditional chair. It
has net and
>> Yeah.
>> If you sit down there, it can keep you
cool.
>> Mhm.
>> I think that's the purpose of the net,
right? Yeah. So,
>> the air flows.
>> Yeah.
>> And it is so quiet. When I talk, I feel
like I'm uh the one who's talking here.
>> Yeah. It's not many people here.
>> Not many people.
>> I don't
>> outside.
>> Okay. Hopefully, this
>> See, there is still way.
>> Oh, here.
>> No, no. I'm just showing.
>> Yeah. Yeah. There's a way here. So, we
may be able to cut through here. Let's
see.
>> Yeah, there is.
>> Whoa. Someone's following us.
>> This one. Oh, the cat.
>> Oh, you don't have food.
>> We don't have food here.
>> Yeah, we have no food.
>> We don't have food. No, no food.
>> Oh, man. This guy is
>> You come to us later, we will give you
the
>> Wow, he's following. Really following
us.
>> So, this is the other side of the beach,
guys. This is west side. And on the
other side, later we will show you.
It's really small island. And I think
you can explore the area, the whole area
in one day.
>> Yeah. Right.
>> Very
>> compared to theora, this is
>> much smaller.
>> Much smaller. Igora is larger.
>> Yeah.
>> And the foods here are cheaper.
>> Foods here are much cheaper than digura.
>> Much cheaper than digura.
>> Yeah.
>> It's like uh 50% price cheaper.
>> Mhm. Right.
So if you are looking for a island that
you can visit, this is one
>> one to visit.
>> Yeah.
>> When it comes to
food prices, this is cheap here.
>> I found a nice like restaurant here.
Look, it looks like a very nice place to
sit.
>> This one?
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. So, I think we have a way now. I
think we can cut through.
>> You want to just show this?
>> Yeah. Show the beach a little bit. And
the crystal clear turquoise Malivian
waters.
>> Very blue water.
>> Wa! Look at the water.
>> That's beautiful.
Look at the water.
>> Wo! I cannot believe this.
>> Very nice. Right.
>> Wow.
>> And there are
>> I think this is like a restaurant or
cafe.
>> Oh, it's like cafeteria.
>> Cafeteria. Yeah,
>> I can see the coffee,
>> but we can have coffee a little later.
Hello.
>> Hello.
>> Lots of uh seats here.
>> Life is a beach. Find your wave.
>> Yeah, like right now we are find Oh, I
can see some people wearing a bikini.
>> Okay, we found a swing here. It's
beautiful.
>> Yeah, beautiful.
>> Beautiful swing. Uh, it's very good for
Instagram or Tik Tok.
>> So, I think we're walking.
>> Yeah.
>> You want to go back to the street?
>> Let's go to the street because we have
later on a beachwalk.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> So,
>> Okay. Could you hold on a second?
>> Yeah.
>> I'm going to take a picture here. One
sec.
Okay guys, so we are going back to the
street
because we have another video walking on
the beach.
>> Okay. There's a big park here.
>> Oh, there's like, you know, playground.
>> No, I showed you that. I I saw that.
>> Yeah, we saw that before.
>> Yeah. I thought it's track and field,
but it's not. It's a big court like uh
soccer. Soccer.
>> Looks like soccer. Yeah.
>> Right.
>> Very nice walking.
>> Yeah.
>> Look. What is this?
>> Look.
>> What is this thing?
>> Oh no.
>> No. Oh, that's a very I think that's a
fruit. You eat them. And the red one
looks like ripe.
>> Yeah. And the green is not yet. But I
don't know what is the name of this.
>> I I wood something. I think I forgot the
name. But I know this fruit. Very sweet.
>> We saw that in Malaysia. I remember they
were saying that. I think this is that
fruit.
>> But I forgot the name.
>> Yeah.
I got some.
>> Mhm.
So this is the west part of the island,
right?
>> West part of the island.
>> Okay. So we're heading towards south.
>> Yes.
>> But still we're just on the west side.
>> Yes.
>> Not on the main side or center side.
>> Mhm.
>> This is the end of the beach
>> on Yeah.
>> I mean this is the end of the side of
the Okulas. West side. Yeah. See it's
water.
>> Yeah. Oh,
>> she scared me a little bit.
>> And later we will try to show you uh
water from west side and east side.
>> Yeah.
>> Because I saw earlier the one way
straight you can see the water from end
to end.
>> Yeah.
>> Hey, it looks like Oh, man. What is
this? Oh,
>> they're drying fish here.
>> Yes.
>> So, this is how they dry fish. Look,
>> this is how they dry fish.
>> I think this is tuna.
>> This looks like tuna. But you can ask
them. We can ask them, guys. So, look at
this.
>> Wo! Look at this.
>> I mean,
>> so much fish.
>> Okay, you can ask them.
>> So many of this.
>> And here, look.
Actually, there's more here. So this is
how they cut tuna.
>> Yeah.
>> You can ask if you can show.
>> That's a huge tuna.
>> Okay.
>> And and you can Yeah, I can show you can
show.
>> This is tuna, right? Tuna.
>> No, no, no.
>> Oh, no. Tuna. What is it?
>> Sailfish.
>> Sorry.
>> Sailfish. Sailfish.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, okay. This is not tuna. But you
know, still that's how you can cut them.
Oh, look at this.
Do you have idea what can look?
>> Yes. Selfie selfish he said.
>> I don't know.
>> But
>> And then they are drying it. Yeah.
>> They're drying it there. Yeah. And all
all this there too.
>> Oh. Oh, I didn't notice this one.
>> Yeah. There more there.
>> Oh, there.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh. Ah. I have this house.
>> Oh,
>> okay.
>> And see this there's more guys here.
>> Yeah.
>> Hello.
A tail fish, right? Sell shellfish.
>> Sellish.
>> Sellfish. Shellfish.
>> I don't know the name of this. Marlin.
Marlin.
>> Oh, Marlin. Marlin.
>> Marlin. Marlin. Okay. Marlin fish. Okay.
>> Got it.
>> Okay. And they are dry.
>> And they're more there. They're more
there.
>> All right.
>> Huh?
>> Okay. You can do it. So guys, we stopped
at the fish plant to take some like you
know pictures and short videos and we
feel lucky that we had an opportunity to
see this because uh most tourists are
not like you know uh do not see this and
you can only see this type of things if
you are on a local island and also you
have to be lucky because we have been to
Deura but we never seen anything like
this.
>> Yeah, this is really good uh to be seen.
>> Yeah,
>> how they clean and how they dry the
fish.
I'm just trying to see if uh we can show
the west and east side of the beach.
>> Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. I
think you can show that if you're on the
main middle street. Maybe here it's
blocked by
>> Yeah, some houses. Yeah.
>> Yeah. Houses.
>> Okay. True.
Oh, this place is much cooler because of
these trees. So, look at these trees.
>> And they have magnum ice cream
>> everywhere. Is
>> everywhere they have magnum ice cream
here.
>> Yeah.
>> This looks like another uh hotel, a
small hotel.
>> Coral Queen Villa.
>> And there's a store.
>> Hello.
>> Hi.
>> Oh, they have coconut here.
>> What?
>> They have coconut. But you know, maybe
we'll we'll get it later.
>> Okay.
>> Now, just complete the video.
>> Oh, look at this decorations. Lots of
decorations here.
>> Oh, yeah.
Another
restaurant.
>> Okula bar.
>> Hello. And then they have like, you
know, I think this is for the
>> part of the bar.
>> Yeah. For the hotel people.
>> Yeah. Hello.
>> Hello.
>> Hi.
>> Video.
>> Pardon?
>> Hello.
>> Hello. Video open.
>> Video opening. Yes. Yes. We're
[laughter] doing
>> We're doing video of the Aulas Island.
>> Yes.
>> Thank you.
>> Nice. Nice car.
>> Yes. Thank you.
>> All right. Thank you.
>> So, here's another u
>> coffee shop.
>> Coffee shop or a small like you know
snack shop. So, the thing is when we
need one, we don't find one. And when we
don't need, we find a lots of these. A
beach blend. This is a coffee shop
>> next to each other.
>> One next to other. And salty shore.
There's another one. And then for most
of this store if you buy you can sit
there and have like you know your coffee
and stuff
>> and have a view of the beach.
>> View of the ocean. Yeah. So that's very
nice. And this is another
uh
>> trip villa.
>> Trip villa. Yeah.
>> Yeah. Trip villa. A good one.
>> So many villas. So many in guest house
here.
>> Yeah.
>> And this is a picture of the whale
shark.
>> Oh yeah. Oh, coconut
>> where?
>> Oh, no. But I don't think there's
they're selling coconut.
>> Yeah, maybe they are taking it to
>> They're just taking it to the store.
>> To the store? Yeah.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> That's the guy who had haircut with you,
>> huh?
>> That's the guy who had haircut with you.
>> Oh, really?
>> Wa.
>> That's incredible.
>> Yes, that is.
>> That's incredible. We are We keep
meeting some people again and again. So
anyway guys, speaking of haircut, Amidon
had haircut and color the hair
>> and shaved
>> and shaved. But he has to rinse his hair
his hair on his own.
>> Yeah,
>> because the guy said that the water is
broken.
>> No, they don't have water there.
>> No, there is. But he said
>> it's broken. The I think the pipe the
pipe he said is broken.
>> Oh, okay.
>> That's why you cannot wash your hair. So
you just wash it later.
>> Yeah.
>> On your own. So this is another coffee
shop,
>> restaurant
>> and every coffee shop has its portion uh
like a chairs and tables on the other
side facing the beach where you can
enjoy.
>> So actually I like this this sidewalk I
think is more nature walk than the
center main street
>> main street you just see like stores
houses but this here you see lots of
cafes and restaurants and beaches.
So the center street, the main street is
more on uh grocery stores, coffee shop,
restaurant. Okay. But here is like
combined there is a coffee shop,
restaurant and uh the view.
>> Yeah.
So if you if you wanted to know the
dress code, this is right here. What you
can and you cannot wear.
>> Oh yeah.
This is the dress code for tourist. And
if you are Oh, see.
>> So this you cannot wear.
>> Yeah. But I think this part is a bikini
beach area.
>> Yeah. If you are on uh the designated
bikini beach, then you can wear like you
know uh these. But other time you cannot
wear this and go in the local.
>> Yeah. And also the lady we asked today.
>> Yep. She said it's uh really okay to
wear bikini on the beach, but don't walk
on the street like you know
just wearing bikini, right? At least you
wrap yourself with towel. It's okay.
>> Yeah, because this island has the
>> most bikini beach comparing to other
local islands in the Maldives. So if you
compare with let's say Digura, Digura
has only one small portion of bikini
beach. But this island which is ukulas
that we can kind of
>> wrapped around the island.
>> So that's another good thing. A lot of
people come here for that reason too.
And they are making uh another Oh no
this is done actually. This another
>> paradis another hotel. So they have like
lots of hotels here
but they're building this one
>> new one.
>> New one. Yeah.
>> We we are seeing so many uh building
being built and make
>> Yeah.
Oh, Nala Valley. I know this one. Nala
Nali,
>> I think so. Yeah,
>> Nala restaurant.
>> Yeah.
>> So, I think Nala Valley is a hotel or in
>> Yeah. Is there Every hotel has a
restaurant if it's a big hotel.
Oh, wow.
>> So, they're here. They're making
>> more. They just started.
>> Hello.
>> Just started.
>> Yeah.
And here I saw some uh women wearing
bikinis already and
some of the people having coffee and
drinks. I think we are done. Look, it
looks like the end of the island. Yeah,
it's the end of the That's why I told
you
>> it's a very short walk
>> and um you can explore the area the
whole island in a day.
>> Yeah, it's a very short short area.
>> Yes.
And our uh
uh where we stay guest uh guest is just
right there.
>> Oh, okay.
>> I'm I'm kind of lost. I have no idea.
>> No, it's there. The name is uh Coy Mala,
right?
>> Coala. Yeah.
>> Yeah. But let's just show the end of the
beach.
>> Yep. So we uh cover all the
>> island
>> uh like uh from north to south.
>> Okay.
>> This is the end of the the
>> So guys, you have to look at the sand.
It's like fine white sand and powdery
smooth. And you have to look at the
water.
>> Yeah.
>> So beautiful.
>> Can you go through this?
>> Yeah.
Oh, I think this is where we came
yesterday. No,
>> it's not tiring. It's not tiring.
>> No, no, it's not tiring here.
>> Oh my god. It's really good to walk.
>> But Dura is tiring because it's very
long.
>> Very long.
>> Much longer.
Okay.
>> It's very like tiny island.
>> Very short walk. Yeah.
>> Yeah.
Okay, we finished our
walk over there to get more view of the
beach.
>> Yeah,
>> this is low tide today.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Look, look, it's very low.
>> Yeah, but it's so beautiful. It's just
way too beautiful.
>> If you come here, you feel like you
don't want to leave.
>> Yes.
>> You don't want to go back to the city to
the stress, hustle and bustle. Here,
people have zero stress.
>> Yeah. That's why I think they look
young, right?
>> They look younger than even the barber
guy that cut your hair.
>> Yeah.
>> I wanted to ask
>> how old is how old he was. Okay.
>> But I'm sh to ask. Okay. He's very
personal.
>> But he looks young.
>> Yeah. Yeah. People look young and also
very friendly people.
>> So anyways, I think we have to
>> end this here.
>> And here this is the south part of the
orange.
>> So thank you for watching guys and we
will show you more videos. in Maldiv,
right? Thank you for watching
>> and see you in the next one. Bye for
now.
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