Flic En Flac, Mauritius Travel Blogs

Flic en Flac - Paradise Lost?
Feb 14, 2008 (10 photos)

... the country is breathtaking, except for when it rains, which happened to be every ten minutes for about two minutes. Arriving in Flic en Flac, I have the number of a few hotels and villas, but I decide to drive around and find a place based on looks.& ...

The graveyard of the forgotten dead
Nov 3, 2007 (6 photos)

... . The average yearly income is 300 Euro. What did we get ourselves into? We have to look at that one night in Mauritius and Madagascar a bit more. I want a steak in the evening. The first restaurant we enter, everybody is waiting for their food and ...

A Mauritius' beach day: it is like a honeymoon !!!
Oct 26, 2007 (3 photos)

After a lovely start of the day: you know those: lots of coffee before getting out of the bed, brunch and ETCETERA, we went to the beach. It is a perfect day in paradise. After the usual negotiation with the chair man, a price is agreed on 2 ...

'Out of air': a signal no diver wants to give/get
Oct 26, 2007 (3 photos)

... A funny thing about this restaurant: it has NO inside: what if it rains? We do try to find the night life after in Flic en Flac afterwards: no such luck. So we go home to watch a movie and roll into bed at 2. Very satisfied of our day. Also because ...

Must be a safe island: you need 3 keys to get in
Oct 21, 2007 (21 photos)

... same meal. Sugar, rum and vanilla are natural resources.   At 08h30, we arrive at our apartment in Flic en Flac: http://www.iot-mauritius.de/en/apartments/laresidence/laresi dence.htm It is owned by a German and all correspondence was via ...

The weather is perfect, we go diving!
Oct 24, 2007 (6 photos)

... and the parks should be nice. We walk home, have brunch and are now ready to hit the road. Unfortunately, we find Flic en Flac pretty boring. We also have to book are next destination island apartment or hotel. In the Seychelles. It looks extremely ...

Mauritius - Holiday in paradise...
Dec 1, 2009 (8 photos)

... are obvious when you drive around the island. The jagged mountains form part of an ancient caldera which surrounds the island.  Mauritius is about 60 miles long and 30 miles wide.  The beaches are amongst the most beautiful in the world and the ...

z french
Nov 5, 2006

... , ne moremo zacelt urejat zadev dokler nam ne posljejo FAXA iz juzne afrike! GREAT!. No, grem js zelo zelo slabe volje nazaj v Flic en Flac z mojim shitty 50 cc motorjem za 20 EUR (groza!) in direkt na internet. No ¡K bookings ¡K posljem mejle in cakam ¡K ...

Relaxing in the rain
Jul 23, 2008 (23 photos)

After an overnight stop in Johannesburg we arrived in Mauritius which was to be our nice relaxing sunny end to our trip.  However, we arrived in the tail end of a big storm so it was cold and raining and it wasn't forecast to get any better for a few ...

Around Mauritius
Feb 9, 2009 (4 photos)

... off the south east coast of Africa and find the little speck of an island. It's an earthly paradise.   From Flic en Flac we drove to the north side of Port Louis, the capital city, to visit France Chamary, our oldest member on ...

Flic En Flac
Jul 22, 2004

Back to Hotel

Relaxation
Nov 2, 2009

... still had no idea where I was going to stay.  Many of my friends already had plans for staying in beachfront villas in Flic en Flac, but they already had too many people staying with them.  I found out which of my friends had still yet to find a ...

Mauritius
Mar 16, 2007

... .  Anyways, so after a quick romp through the city we hoped in a pair of taxis and speed, really fast, towards Flic-en-Flac.              The beach, as we were told, was really quite beautiful ...

Spring Beak 08 - Mauritius
Mar 5, 2008

... Luis itself didn't seem very nice. Fortunately the second we arrived into port my friends and I took a cab directly to Flic en Flac beach. This is where most of the SAS students rented villas or apartments with all of their friends to kick off spring ...

Pamplemousse botanical garden
Nov 16, 2005 (5 photos)

Visiting the botanical garden called Pamplemousse Mary in one of those rare moments getting her hair done at the open air salon. June queen of the magical forest. Cameron, walking through some grass, inexplicably finds himself reduced to 1/1000 ...

Cyclone
Feb 12, 2003 (1 photos)

On Rob's birthday we went out for pizza, walked home in the pouring rain, and then found out that we were in the middle of a class 3 cyclone. Lack of a T.V. and radio certainly kept us clueless. The weather got worse all night, and the wind and rain on ...

Sailing
Nov 24, 2005 (5 photos)

Learning to sail

Flic En Flac
Jul 17, 2004

Back to Hotel

Flic En Flac
Jul 20, 2004

Back to Hotel

Last Day in Mauritius
Nov 29, 2005 (1 photos)

From Germany - Marie-Therese and Peter

Mauritius
Jul 31, 2005

Honeymoon

Üldiselt ja täpsemalt
Jul 28, 2009 (13 photos)

... ning prantslaste crème brûléed. Valdavalt tehakse maitsvaid roogi värsketest mereandidest, magustoiduks saab mahlaseid kohalikke puuvilju..mmm. Flic en Flac on väike linn, kus pole suurt midagi peale kuurortite ja 12 km rannajoone. 20 min jalutuskäigu kaugusel ...

Ile Gabriel - Catamaram Trip
Nov 23, 2005 (2 photos)

Catamaram and snorkelling trip.

Boat Trip
Mar 15, 2003 (5 photos)

We finally broke down and went on one of the boat trips being constantly hawked to us whenever we go to the beach. The boat owners promise a day of snorkelling, whale and dolphin watching, and an island picnic. We decided to see if they were for real. ...

Iles aux cerf
Nov 9, 2005 (10 photos)

Cameron's injuries to date: - Coral cut on the right sole - Smashed toe on left foot which we had to go check out at the local clinique + x-ray. cost of trip = 100$ CAN. Diagnostic = no broken bones. Cameron's relief = priceless Excursion to Iles au ...

Rose-Hill Visit and Chamarel
Nov 11, 2005 (10 photos)

Visiting Rose-Hill. Local art scene courtesy of Nathalie of Rose-Hill. Visiting Chamarel "Terre aux sept couleurs". Giant tortoises. Climbing the big rock on the south-west coast. Cameron "King of the Castle" well, "four a chaux" actually ...

Oct 01, 2009
Oct 1, 2009 (4 photos)

Visting Mauritius...
Nov 4, 2005 (9 photos)

Visiting Mauritius... Cap Malheureux Cameron getting eaten up by a giant dry land octopus. Local Soccer Game while waiting for bus. Cameron begged me to participate in his latest creation == Sand castle He almost had a fit when a 4 year old boy ...

More of Mauritius...
Nov 28, 2005 (10 photos)

More...

Mauritius
May 15, 2008 (6 photos)

... on a map. The entire island is about 20 by 40 miles. Pretty much everyone on the ship goes to this little beach town called Flic-en-Flacq and rents a villa or an apartment for the three nights that we are there. Will and I had originally decided to stay at ...