Mauritius

Winter 2005 - Approximately 8th November - 23rd November based on the dates of the pictures taken

Honeymoon with my Janne

It was definitively a dream island. Ideal for a honeymoon. Idyllic place with very respectful people that do not push to get tips (not even allowed in hotels to avoid bothering the guests) but are very helpful anyway.
Not the cheapest place on earth, but honeymoon is honeymoon....
The sea is wonderful and it is an island in the middle of the see. Nothing else around but sea, far far away.

We stayed a total of two weeks split in two different hotels. And when I am saying we were staying at two different hotels, we do mean we were staying there nearly most of the time, apart from some excursion downtime and some excursion around the sightseeing places in Mauritius. One of the places was the one with coloured sand.

Some kind of vulcano, as the island seems to be a vulcanic one if I remember it correctly...

 Not much action there though as you can see... :O)

A sugar plantation was a typical stop, remembering so much of the special muscovado sugar comes from exactly Mauritius. A "chicken" farm with different kinds of chickins of which this one was rather cute but definitively the least coloured of all there.

Legends
Legends was a newly built hotel with Feng Shui style and theme. It was very beautiful, clean and well thought through. It was the hotel we loved. Everything was very "zen" over there. Our room had "water" theme. And a bath tub with a view over the sea.
The whole place was lovely and our room had a view over the sea.

Fresh flowers every day.

Of course, the honeymoon dinner on the beach was included.

Beau Rivage
This was back then a few years older than Legends and had no theme. It was still a five star hotel though so they were taking very good care of us. The guys went around on the beach and cleaned our sun glasses... Hehe... so no "salami slice" feeling on them against the odds and the sunscreen...
Having been around longer, the place had a rather lush garden to be in Africa and the view from the room was very green.

And the never missing pool...

So yes. We loved this idyllic place! And we loved it even more as it was our honeymoon! It comes very highly recommended from us! :O)