Margarita Mahebourg

Et 4 jours pour faire le reste de l ile maurice, ancienne ile de france. 4 jours c est peu mais la promotion aerienne que j ai eu m inpose ces dates. En effet, le trajet reunion - ile maurice est un vol qui est dit un des plus chers du monde, 20 minutes de vol sont facturees entre 250 et 500 euros.

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I recently had a wonderful holiday at the wonderful island of Mauritius. The scenery was breathtaking. The island's volcanic origins are obvious when you drive around the island. The jagged mountains form part of an ancient caldera which ...

... Cerfs which is a dormant volcano, semi retired you might say. It was really cool as ther is a road that goes alll the way around it and you can stop wherever (of course you can its Mauritius!) and take a good look. It was quite deep with lots of trees lining it and a lake at the centre in the bottom, basically it looked like a minature version of a volvic advert. After getting pointed at several times and having them shout 'ICE CREAM!?' at us and us ...

... ulcers, facial injuries and broken bones, as well as large wounds left open from where they had become infected. The main thing we noticed is the lack of care for the patients pain, especially when examining wounds etc and that they are spoken to very differently than in the UK. After having a quick chat with the junior doctors with them saying how 'you look lost - do you not understand the language?' we were back off to the beach via ...

... Mahebourg (near the airport) for a whopping $30, including breakfast! It wasn't "nice" or "clean", but I guess I can't do the whole 4 and 5 star hotel thing for the entire year... I fall asleep with all my windows open, the fan on, and still hot (no aircon as they call it) but content after hearing positive news about my Grandpa's recovery in the hospital! Apparently he's had a surgery and the doctors think he will make a decent recovery.

... The malaria mosquitoes in Madagascar and South Africa are resistant to the other types. I do not like all those chemicals in my blood, but we cannot take any risks. Afterwards internet café, where I check out the answers of the hotels in Nosy Be and Tony books the flight. First news: there are no flights available before the 20th. OK, let' book now for the 20th. Ouch, Air Madagascar website exclusively in French. We ...

... like I have known my entire life. I also like that the service at many of the restaurants we have been to is slow. This is not because it is bad service, it's that dinner is a time for relaxing and family and generally just being together - a four hour meal is not uncommon. We have done a good majority of our bonding over food on this trip and our meal ended up being about three hours. After the meal we wandered to the bar next door because it had also been recommended to us ...

We arrived in the middle of the night, and after immigration finally let us in we set of for a hotel in the wonderful cool night air. It was lovely here, our hotel was (almost) on the beach but importantly was clean, friendly and tout free. We spent the day wandering around the town and beach enjoying the cool air, lack of touts, safe food, beer, meat, no touts etc, etc. :-) We only had a short time, so we had to return to the airport for four. boo.

... rocky foreshore, but there was no safe way down. Walked to where we could see the water to the North, but it looked pretty murky, so called it a day and walked back home via our beach, past some pretty flash resorts with seafront restaurants with tablecloths, napkins and wine glasses. After an evening cold coke and Bacardi, we head across the road to the recommended Laurier restaurant for something quick and light before ...

... Para sailing, undersea walking, snorkeling, submarine rides (these rides are very expensive ~$100 per person!), ride on the tube board (we even saw one on shaped like a banana - tiny kids splashing water and riding it close to the shore!). As visitors on vacation, all we did was wake up, get ready by 8 am, have a sumptuous all-u-can-eat buffet breakfast at the hotel and head out site-seeing. Then back late evening, rest a bit, dinner at La Plantation (buffet again - various ...