La Reunion is part French Riviera, part former African colony. It has fancy boulangeries and casinos with high stakes poker tournaments as well as mountain hamlets with no road access that once served as a refugee for escaped African slaves.…
Mauritius: Grand Bay and Beyond
Grand Bay is a beautiful little bay that is very crowded with tourists and boats. This is Mauritius’s low season but there were still around 10 catamarans full of tourists that would leave the bay and sail out to a nearby…
Mauritius: Port Louis
Mauritius is a country extremely rich in natural beauty. It’s surrounded by gorgeous reefs, the weather is perfect, it has decent sized mountains, and the dodo was at one time an endemic species here. Unfortunately, a lot of that natural…
Rodrigues
Rodrigues is an an eclectic and idyllic island. It’s about 350 miles east of Mauritius and has equal parts African and French influence. It has a creole feeling that is reminiscent of New Orleans. After a long and intense passage,…