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Une journée au bureau...., Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

Une journée au bureau....

A travel blog entry by lucaseb

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en attendant les clients..., Palmar, Mauritius travel blog

en attendant les clients...

A travel blog entry by lucaseb

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Quelques photos prises au fish eye sur la plage de la passe moulin, pendant que des clients se baladaient en SUP sur le ...

Arriving in Mauritius, Belle Mare Plague, Mauritius travel blog

Arriving in Mauritius

A travel blog entry by alastair

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... , surrounded by 15 ft high sugar cane and small villages we arrived at a huge gate with three security guards. We were at Belle Mare Plage ( 4 star) on the North East Coast. Travelling through the gate my eyes popped out of my head, as we discovered ...

Purple hair, yellow hats with stars, and an olive, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

Purple hair, yellow hats with stars, and an olive

A travel blog entry by saaimas

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... when were back at home already we happened to come across an interestingly shaped bottle of Cane Spirits, which turned out to come from Mauritius of all places.... It became the permanent home for the coral grit. What a pity that we didn't visit the Cane ...

A Window on the Reef, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

A Window on the Reef

A travel blog entry by saaimas

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... get on it when we were exhausted from playing in the ocean, and to just sit back and enjoy a cruise around the spectacular waters of Mauritius. The boat was never over crowded, and we always got a spot on it when we went down to the jetty.  Cindy and ...

A Pineapple Cocktail, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

A Pineapple Cocktail

A travel blog entry by saaimas

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... that dream was about to come true, as we surfed the websites for information on our nearest neighboring islands. There were Mauritius, Madagascar and Reunion, all within affordable distance off the coast of Africa.  March, April seemed to be the ...

A Sea that wasn't there, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

A Sea that wasn't there

A travel blog entry by saaimas

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... for Mari and Cindy, who were a mere 3 and 6 years old then, and we snorkeled off the beach. Mauritius is almost entirely surrounded by coral reef, making the waters safe for swimming and also keeping the breakers further out on ...

A visit to Flacq markets, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

A visit to Flacq markets

A travel blog entry by saaimas

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... the same in different colours, a turquoise and a black T-shirt each with two dolphins to one side on the front, and 'Mauritius' written in friendly cursive letters underneath. Some of the other T-shirts we bought that day had maps of Mauritius, or ...

Shopping & relaxing, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

Shopping & relaxing

A travel blog entry by traveltragic

Ended up in Curepipe to shop - bit too far but in the end happy with purchases Afternoon relaxing Catamaran cruise - pleasant but cloudy so no sunset Dinner in Mediterranian restauarnt at hotel - another Sega ...

Sailing, sprinkling and reef snorkeling, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

Sailing, sprinkling and reef snorkeling

A travel blog entry by saaimas

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... It was so nice to just lie there in the cool onshore breezes, gently swaying under the Casuarina trees which were so characteristic of Mauritius.  We heard that they've been introduced by the French when they first settled on the island, to break the ...

Out for the count after too much fun, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

Out for the count after too much fun

A travel blog entry by saaimas

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We spent our days swimming and snorkeling, relaxing on the glass bottom boat, going sailing or exploring the surrounding beaches.  Wikus made good use of the reef boat too, and often went out with them in the afternoon, snorkeling on the outer reef. ...

Vibrant Le Coco Beach!, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

Vibrant Le Coco Beach!

A travel blog entry by saaimas

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The resort was stunning!  It was a brand new Sun Resort at the time, vibrant, bustling and enormous. There were colourful swirls and fishes and sea-stars printed in fat, friendly symbols all around, and a dramatic spiral ...

Horsing around, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

Horsing around

A travel blog entry by saaimas

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That morning after breakfast we saw some horse riders on the beach in front of the hotel, and decided to go and scout out the horse riding activity of the resort.  It was quite expensive, so we decided to rather go and have a look at the Giant ...

A Sunny Taxi to Ile Aux Cerfs, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

A Sunny Taxi to Ile Aux Cerfs

A travel blog entry by saaimas

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... of, but in the sunny tropics it made perfect sense.  Once out of the glitzy resort, we were confronted by a very rural Mauritius.  There were people on foot everywhere on the roads, the odd donkey cart and here and there an old rattler of a ...

Catamaran cruise photos, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

Catamaran cruise photos

A travel blog entry by bmtravel

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Indian Ocean Stopover on Mauritius, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

Indian Ocean Stopover on Mauritius

A travel blog entry by kuhnglobaleyes

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TBD!  Happy New Year! "You gather the idea that Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius." --Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897 ...

Homeward bound, Belle Mare, Mauritius travel blog

Homeward bound

A travel blog entry by saaimas

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We were taking our time packing that morning... everyone had breakfast except Susan, who was still holding on to her sanity and by now confident that the split tooth was not going to scream at her.  There was still the flight aspect that ...

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