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Background: Discovered by the Portuguese in 1505, Mauritius was subsequently held by the Dutch, French, and British before independence was attained in 1968. A stable democracy with regular free elections and a positive human rights record, the country has attracted considerable foreign investment and has earned one of Africa's highest per capita incomes. Recent poor weather and declining sugar prices have slowed economic growth, leading to some protests over standards of living in the Creole community.




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By dominic
June 3rd 2007
Road trip Africa » Mauritius » Quatre Bornes
south of Mauritius Dominic Boland[url='/Videos/3548.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/3548.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Le souffleur!<-- have a look at this video! Well road trips in Mauritius are pretty limited, knowing that the island is small! So we went to the south of the Island to visit Rochester falls, and a place called le souffleur! Luckily for us, there were HUGE waves this day so we got to experience the souffleur in the best conditions! see for yourselves with the photos and vid [View Full Entry]

dominic - Dominic Boland | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 3rd 2007 | 125 Views | [diary=165572]

RUN!
yeah right
Rochester falls

I am very excited to say that the event that culminated my time here in Geneva has now come and gone. I held a very successful conference in Mauritius on the textile and clothing industry in sub-Saharan Africa. AND I got to see (some of) Mauritius. The conference had 30 participants, and although there were some hiccups and people not coming, all in all it went really well. As my first major event planning job in my life, I am very happy to say that it went really well - the discussions were lively, progress was made in getting people in [View Full Entry]

Leanne Sedowski - Leanne Sedowski | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 7th 2007 | 183 Views | [diary=166020]

The hotel
The hotel beach
The Chateau

By dominic
May 17th 2007
PwC Fun day Africa » Mauritius » Port Louis
[url='/Videos/3579.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/3579.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] RECULEZAlright! Doing my internship in mauritius ... as you can see I work hard! I was in the Dolphin's team ... and we won! Yeah so that was pretty cool. I had to choose between beachvolley, pool, darts, football, volleyball, carom, petanque, golf, putting ... Writing my rapport de stage is going to be great! [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 17th 2007 | 103 Views | [diary=165567]

race
tug of war
Dolphins team

By dominic
May 4th 2007
Mauritius! Africa » Mauritius » Pointe d'Esny
Mauritius! Africa » Mauritius » Pointe d Esny By dominic May 4th 2007 First day Mauritius First day Mauritius Dominic Boland Heya! Well I'm actually writing this entry in June, but I thought some of you might be interested in what I have been doing since my arrival in Mau [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 4th 2007 | 180 Views | [diary=165504]

Wakeboarding
Kalodyne
Kalodyne1

In all honestly, I never heard of this tiny African island before I knew I was going to be one of our ports on Semester at Sea. I was happy just to be getting on land again after a week of incredibly rocky waters due to a slight brush with a cyclone coming around the southern coast of the African continent. It’s a little unsettling to have your plates and utensils move around the table on their own if they aren’t held down. We were told that our three days in Mauritius were going to be equivalent to a Spring [View Full Entry]

Steph at Sea - Stephanie Rearick | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 9th 2007 | 179 Views | [diary=147144]


Divemaster completed Our DM application is now sent. Thank you Blue Water Diving Centre for the course, you have all been great, but special thanks to our instructors Pierre and Vic. We now feel ready to go forward to do our instructor course and hopefully we should have a job teaching scuba diving soon! We will miss you guys very much and hope it will not be too long until we meet again. Dayflower no longer with the Ninjo’s We sold Dayflower. She is now back in Mauritian hands. We will miss her and hope that her next owner will be [View Full Entry]

Ninjo - Nina and Joachim | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 9th 2007 | 525 Views | [diary=138082]

Blue Water Apero
Briani with MUG
Durban Dancing Shrimp

Hi everyone, We are now in our 2nd day at Kwandwe Private Game Reserve on the Eastern Cape, South Africa and on the 12th day of our travels. We have seen so much already! As well as getting married on 6th March in Mauritius, we have been Big Game fishing and caught a Barracuda, Dolphin watching in Tamarin Bay, a Catamaran Cruise along the West Coast of Mauritius,and now here we are in an out of this world private Game Reserve. After two Safari drives we have already seen Lions including 3 month old cubs at very close quarters, Giraffes, Rhino, [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 12th 2007 | 362 Views | [diary=137446]


Sunday/Monday At 10am it was announced that the cyclone Gamede has passed Mauritius and was no longer a threat. We would have updated the blog earlier, but we had no power from Sunday morning until some where between 4 and 7am Monday morning. Once the power was back we were still struggling to get a internet connection. But finally we got online were able to update the blog. Sunday we went for a drive and the waves were enormous on the west coast, but luckily there was not much dammage. Of course there were broken palm trees and branches lying around, [View Full Entry]

Ninjo - Nina and Joachim | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: February 22nd 2007 | 1626 Views | [diary=131823]

Road closed
Oliver checking out the cyclone
Cyclone wine consumption

By Ninjo
February 22nd 2007
New underwater pictures Africa » Mauritius
Took me ages with the slow internet connection, but finally there are lots of underwater shots online. There will be more overwater shots to come though (connection pending)... http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninapedersen/sets [View Full Entry]

Ninjo - Nina and Joachim | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: February 22nd 2007 | 370 Views | [diary=131851]

Starfish
Nina doing scuba review
Mr. Moray

Pappa visiting Relaxing on the beach, sun bathing, swimming, and then some more relaxing on the beach, sun bathing, swimming and then Pappa was ready for exploration of the island. So amongst eating Bruno’s fantastic cooking both at Coco de Mer and at his home we did some sightseeing: Port Louis Market Fruit and vegetable market as well as the meat and fish market. It is a big contrast from what we are used to in Europe and North America with strict regulations on handling live stock and meat. It is definitively worth a visit just to feel the hustle and [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 22nd 2007 | 611 Views | [diary=131846]

Port Louis meat market
Cap Malheureux
Tamil statue