Title : "[My husband and I] were fully vaccinated, eager to get out into the world and bent on seeing a bucket list place that, given rising sea levels, may not be around for much longer."
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"[My husband and I] were fully vaccinated, eager to get out into the world and bent on seeing a bucket list place that, given rising sea levels, may not be around for much longer."
"(More than 80 percent of the islands that make up the Maldives are less than one meter above sea level; it has the lowest terrain of any country in the world.)... The day after we arrived... the wind kicked up and rain blew in, ushering in the sort of storm that eschews rules. 'The classical, typical monsoon is no longer the case.... The rainy season is rather unpredictable because of global environmental changes.' A bummer, but [the new resort] prepared for this: sumptuous interiors, redolent in rose gold and emerald green, a bed that begot naps, a spa that offered a timely 'inner strength and resilience' massage, which felt like being rolled out like a sheet of cookie dough. There was no shortage of gustatory delights: sushi and pasta conceived by Michelin star chefs, biryani as good as its brethren on the subcontinent, a Turkish breakfast buffet with an olive bar that rivaled Whole Foods.... Then there were the classes. Yoga and HIIT, yes, but also: gin tasting, wine tasting, sake tasting.... [O]n our final night, sipping gin and tonics while Bruno Mars played from the speakers... we got to engage in the kind of conviviality that travel offers, and that the pandemic prevented. We shared Netflix recommendations with a bartender from Costa Rica, discussed Dogecoin with a server from the Philippines. 'Pfizer or Moderna?' 'AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson?'"I'm reading and laughing/crying over "The Maldives Knows Y.O.L.O./The island nation is positioning itself as the place to go to rediscover the beauty of travel. But it needs to convince would-be visitors that it’s more than 'just a beach'" (NYT).
How can any American who flies to the Maldives say anything claiming to care about global warming?
Why not find a luxury resort closer to home... or just do your indoor spa treatments, yoga classes, gin sipping, olive eating, and listening to pop recordings in your own city? You're telling us we can get "inner strength" from a massage in the Maldives that we can't get at home because... why? It's purely subjective, but it works if you exoticize this sector of the globe. And then, the massage is exotic, but they're piping in Bruno Mars music and the olives are like Whole Foods olives. Utterly unexotic.
The pushers of world travel love to tell you about the people they meet. So broadening! But then they go to resorts where the local people are the bartenders and waiters. And that's "the kind of conviviality that travel offers"!
This might be the most ludicrous travel article I've ever seen in the NYT. The Maldives are on track to fall below ocean level. Is that a reason to refrain from inflicting the gigantic carbon footprint that is your trip or a reason to get right over there before it disappears? According to the NYT, the latter.
I'm reading and laughing/crying over "The Maldives Knows Y.O.L.O./The island nation is positioning itself as the place to go to rediscover the beauty of travel. But it needs to convince would-be visitors that it’s more than 'just a beach'" (NYT).
How can any American who flies to the Maldives say anything claiming to care about global warming?
Why not find a luxury resort closer to home... or just do your indoor spa treatments, yoga classes, gin sipping, olive eating, and listening to pop recordings in your own city? You're telling us we can get "inner strength" from a massage in the Maldives that we can't get at home because... why? It's purely subjective, but it works if you exoticize this sector of the globe. And then, the massage is exotic, but they're piping in Bruno Mars music and the olives are like Whole Foods olives. Utterly unexotic.
The pushers of world travel love to tell you about the people they meet. So broadening! But then they go to resorts where the local people are the bartenders and waiters. And that's "the kind of conviviality that travel offers"!
This might be the most ludicrous travel article I've ever seen in the NYT. The Maldives are on track to fall below ocean level. Is that a reason to refrain from inflicting the gigantic carbon footprint that is your trip or a reason to get right over there before it disappears? According to the NYT, the latter.
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