Every year, people, especially city dwellers, come from all over the world this paradise to escape their fellow homo sapiens and to be close to nature. Yet how many of them are really ready to be alone with it, knowing that to be integral to nature means subjecting oneself completely to its dictates?

Hundreds of millions of years ago, when sea creatures crawled on to land with fins that would eventually become legs, they never went back. When apes learned to walk upright, they traded forever their speed of running for broader vision; and when man built houses to keep the rain and snow outside, he chose to keep nature at his doorstep.

A glimpse through the window is beautiful, just as venturing outside is bound to bring its excitement, and no one is going to demolish the house.

On my last night in Maldives I lowered the curtain, snuggled up in bed and slept tight.