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The best two months of my life so far were spent in Mauritius in the summer of 2005. Thanks to the amazing hospitality of my client - Bernard, his wife Cecille, their little daughter and all my colleagues, Naveen, especially. I live in Kolkata, in India.

Mauritius: where the water turns clockwise in your basin

Abhijit Bhattacharjee
2006-02-19 13:42:15

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tourist hub centres are dotted along the coast starting from the North to the East. The hotels with swimming pools adjacent to the open ocean by the bar that look like the best picture post cards that you have seen.

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Mauritius has a trully amazing speciality, it has microclimates in its various regions. You have parts that are raining heavily for days which are a few kilometers away from parts where the grass is so dry that it looks like straw. In fact there is a place called Paille (pronounced Piou) - which means straw, because the climate is such. Its only a few kilometers across. That microclimate. Its adjoining the capital called Port Loius.

Incidently, an important bird of Maurutius is the paille-en-queue (well, pronounced as Pioukyu) These are the white birds that you can spot flying low down in the sky in the valley from the Pointe aux Piments in the Black River Gorges National Park.
The bird has a tail that has two prongs like two strands of straw, hence the name. This is also the bird which is on the logo of Mauritius Air - the two tailed bird.

If you want to enjoy Simla, its few minutes drive into Curepipe from Rose Hill. If you want rough seas where the current is very strong, you could face the seas in the south and stare at the rough oceans, but dont get in because it will almost certainly kill you. And if you want to snorkel and dive safely, you would stick to the North and the East. Those who want to surf, parasail etc will find the trade winds on the West coast.

There is huge volcanic crater you could be looking at. You could be in Indian heartland at Flacq where I spent the whole day discovering India - almost Ramjanmabhhomi there. Or on a nature trail at the Black River Gorges National Park.

The ocean is what everyone comes here for. There are really beautiful white sandy beaches, beaches that offer nice coral relief closeby, coasts that stand on a precipice of rocks, and beaches ...