http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Mauritius en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:42:58 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:42:58 BST After a very long 12 hour flight to Mauritius we started our descent over the island. The plane came to life as everyone craned their necks in anticipation to get the first exciting glimpse of paradise. Then my boyfriend pipes up and says 'oh it looks a bit like Scotland'. Talk about passion killer he may have well said 'your bum looks particularly enormous today' By the scowl on my face he qui http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/blog-298459.html Mauritius is an island off the coast of Madagascar of which Mark Twain has said you gather the idea that Mauritius was made first and then heaven and that heaven was copied after Mauritius. It lives up to it's illustrious reputation. We chose to stay twice at the Hilton Spa Resort and our stays there were pure magic. Torch Lighting CeremonyWe arrived in the afternoon and a gong was run http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Flic-en-Flac/blog-281588.html Reunion After 3 days at sea we arrived at the Island of Reunion on Monday the 21st of April. It is a French Protectorate and it did not take us long to realize it We all got loaded on our buses for the various tours and the Taxis decided to call a surprise strike and blocked the exit from the port with cabs so none of the buses could leave. The Cabbies wanted access to the Port and claimed th http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Port-Louis/blog-269174.html 12 innleggMauritius Skrevet i Flic en Flac 11.04.08.N har vi da vrt her p Mauritius i ca 2 uker ja om noe kan kalles paradis er dette nettopp detAnkom sent p kvelden ca2 uker siden fra JohannesburgSrAfrika fant fort en billig flott overnattingsplass i en roligliten type fiskerlandsby sr p yaMahebourg.Var der i 2 netter vandret rundt overalt fr ferden gikk videre til hov http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/blog-268379.html Ja s var vi jo p luksus en Mauritius. To ord kan beskrive det SKNT og PERFEKT.23408 Og s kom der endelig lidt billeder op. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Grand-Bay/blog-259562.html 2909Stopover in Mauritius. Took a taxi to the North1500 rupees. Came back to the airport by bus150 rupees Really enjoy my trip. Went to Pamplemousses Botanical Gardens famous for their water lily ponds and to PortLouis the Capital City. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/blog-245649.html Thursday 27th DecemberTana Airport1306 UK 1606 MadagascarIn approximately 54 minutes I will be heading down the runway and leaving this Fair Isle. A month has passed very quickly and I feel I have done a lot seen a lot learnt a lot and changed a bit. You know I think I have managed to slow down. Just a little bit but I am fine with dead time now. There has to be some time in which http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Port-Louis/blog-231908.html We didn't expect to be here when we left on our big trip but here we are on a little piece of France a couple of thousand miles away from Europe in the middle of the Indian Ocean. We have been eagerly awaiting this leg of the journey for about 3 months and now we are here to all intents and purposes in France. There are SuperU's Carrefours Credit Agricoles Boulangeries the road signs are in http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Reunion/Reunion/blog-224171.html We decided to go to Mauritius to visit a mate of ours from London but due to a bit of a cock up with telephone numbers and dates unfortunately he wasn't even on the island when we arrived Determined to make the best of a bad job and not knowing much about Mauritius we scoured the web in search of information about places to stay and things to do here. We finally settled on a little place towa http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/blog-215235.html We arrived on Mauritius on September 2nd in the morning and after haggling with the taxi drivers got a ride up the east coast to the little town of Trou drsquoEau Deuce. We spent two days here walking around the town relaxing on the small beach area to the north near Belle Mare and enjoying the local food. Having come in the spring and before the tourist season the area was very quiet. Th http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/blog-213294.html Hi I am Swapna Saha from Kolkata India. I am the working in a textile company as personal secretary to the Chairman. My hobbies includes Travelling Singing songs Rabindra Sangeet Surfing internet Chatting with friends and cooking. Travelling is my greatest passion and I have travelled a lot in India and abroad.My husband works in a multinatinal company at Kolkata. His name is Mr. Tapas Sah http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Port-Louis/blog-210298.html Had an amazing ten days in mauritius chilling out to the max. We were so tired and emotional for the first few days I can hardly even remember it but I think it's fair to say we have never encountered such luxury before. They actually didn't let you lift a finger to the point where it was quite embarassing. The food was brilliant big massive buffets every night and we had a romantic candlelight d http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/blog-204187.html como estan ustedes yo de vuelta de Ciudad del Cabo.Han pasado cinco meses desde mi primera visita al pais del ganado y me voy a quedar un ratito en Namibia para trabajar un poco no demasiado.Ya he hecho mis pinitos con algunos turistas gabachos de forma ilegal pero desde el viernes despues de mucho papeleo y mucho mamoneo tengo el permiso de trabajo como guia turistico La visita a Sudafrica f http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Flic-en-Flac/blog-198212.html Well After madly packing up the house moving unpacking and cleaning our rental place Clinton and I were ready at 11pm the night before we were to head off Very very last minute job as per usual. We didn't get any shopping done so we're without quite a few important items As I have just found out we didn't bring our vaccination certificates with us which I've been freaking out over howev http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Grand-Bay/blog-174528.html Heya Just giving you guys an update on what I have been doing. I'm finishing my internship this friday Then i'll have two week's holiday ... PARRRTYYYYYYY And then Olivier and I will be flying to DownUnder on the 2nd. I'll be stopping at Sydney and Olivier will continue to Melbourne Now our problem is ... finding accomodation. We're arriving in Oz in 2 weeks and we still don't know where we' http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Port-Louis/blog-168736.html 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 subSaharan 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/blog-166020.html Already 1 month in Mauritius and I laughed so many times about things that happened in mauritius Look at the photos and comments Unfortunately I didn't have my camera on me otherwise I would've taken a photo I went to the registrar of companies to get some information. Arrived there of course it had changed address a didn't think it was a good idea to mention it on their website and aske http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Port-Louis/blog-165832.html south of MauritiusDominic BolandLe souffleurlt have a look at this videoWell road trips in Mauritius are pretty limited knowing that the island is smallSo we went to the south of the Island to visit Rochester falls and a place called le souffleurLuckily 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Quatre-Bornes/blog-165572.html RECULEZAlrightDoing my internship in mauritius ... as you can see I work hardI 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Port-Louis/blog-165567.html MauritiusnbspAfrica raquonbspMauritius raquonbspPointe d Esny By dominicMay 4th 2007First day MauritiusFirst day MauritiusDominic 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 Mauritius Well Olivier friend from Uni and I decided to do our intership in Mauritius before heading fo http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Pointe-d--Esny/blog-165504.html 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. Itrsquos a little unsettling to have your plates and utensils move around the table http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Port-Louis/blog-147144.html Divemaster completedOur 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. Dayflow http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/blog-138082.html Hi everyoneWe 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 Mauritiusand now here we are in an out of th http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Flic-en-Flac/Taj-Exotica/blog-137446.html 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... httpwww.flickr.comphotosninapedersensets http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/blog-131851.html 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 Brunorsquos 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 fro http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/blog-131846.html SundayMondayAt 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/blog-131823.html