Postcards from Paradise

Mauritian sunset

I know. They are very long overdue. By about a month and a half. What can I say? One, I've been beavering away, finishing the manuscript and two, it takes a bloody long time to sort through about 5000 photographs and get them down to a very small number to post here. But, that said, here they are. All I can say now is - I could really do with some of that tropical heat! (And you'll just have to bear with me on the number of tropical sunsets...)

Just one of a gazillion tropical sunsets...

Hotel beach - Mauritius west coast

Beach Vendors

I heart you with an anthurium...

Tea picker at Bois Cherie tea plantation

The coloured earths at Chamarel

The Hindu God, Ganesh, at Grand Bassin, the sacred lake

Port Louis' fresh produce market

Spice shop in Port Louis

Sea art after a spring high tide

Still more tropical sunsets...

Fishermen at dawn

Oh look, sunsets, again...

Paradise perfected

For other photo posts of Mauritius see here, here (2007) and here (2007), over here on Flickr...

More hellish days in Mauritius - Part Two

Okay, I promise after this - no more. Clearly I have inadvertently raised some envy and as we know, this is bad. For me and for you. So I will leave you with these last few shots and then say no more.

Wolmar Beach - West Coast

Silheoutted palms - another balmy sunset

Vegetable section of the Quatre Bourne Market

Food Vendors - Quatre Bourne Market

La Bennitier et les Fonds Blancs - a tiny coral island in crystal clear waters

Here endeth the time in paradise.

Mauritius - Another hellish day in paradise... Part One

Chickens and other humans have been known to travel - particularly to places that delight the senses... Enjoy the scenes from a recent holiday. Personally, I'm hoping to go back soon - preferably yesterday.

View from the hotel lobby... It's hell, I know

Mauritian east coast - views over sugar cane plantations

Tree roots snaking along the Black River in the Black River Gorge

Mauritian Tortoise have a slow and languid snack...

Ah, sigh, sunset over the west coast and Wolmar Beach... So endeth a hellish day in paradise.

More tomorrow...