The day after tomorrow we arrive in India. Just four days ago we had arrive in the Hawaii of Africa. Mauritius is a gorgeous tropical island that is 20mi. by 40mi. located east of Madagascar and it is absolutely stunning. It was the port that we all took to relax in more or less. It was laid back compared to the other ports we had been to. We were also only there for two days so there was not too much to do which was also nice because it meant we didn’t have to go all crazy planning. The first day there, I walked around with Kori for a little while and we took care of shopping so we wouldn’t have to do it the next day. That afternoon I went to an SOS Children’s Village, my second one of the voyage. This one was very similar to the village we went to in Morocco. I was glad I had the ability to go to two of these villages different countries because it really gave me a perspective of the SOS Village organization and all they stand for and the support they provide.
From there, we were picked up by a driver, his name was Denish, he drove us the entire time on the island which was really nice because it saved us the stress of having to find drivers every time we needed to get from one place to the other. He brought us to our hotel, where Kori and I met up with Amy and Sarah. That night, we hung around Flic en Flac and walked on the beach and just chilled out. The next day, our hosts made us breakfast at 6:30 so we would be able to eat before we left. We were brought to Tamarin where we met up with our tour guides. That day, we went swimming with wild dolphins which was surreal. Imagine 30 wild dolphins swimming below you and listening to them call to each other. It was amazing. We also got to go to a private island where we had lunch and snorkeled to Crystal Rock, a volcanic island in the middle of the bay. It was made even nicer by the fact that we didn’t see any SAS people and we were able to just be separate from everyone. At the end of the day we were flat out exhausted. We went back to Port Louis and did some last minute shopping and then vegged out on the ship for the last hour or so. Dinner that night was a barbeque which was nice b/c it wasn’t all potatoes and pasta for a change. We also got to watch a bunch of people get dock time for coming back late…it’s one of those things that makes you feel a little bad at first but not so much seeing as most of them where late b/c they didn’t care and spent as much time as they could getting in a last drink or two. All in all, Mauritius was beautiful and it was a mini-rest for what is/will be absolute chaos in the upcoming month with very few days in between port and crazy busy itineraries for each port.
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