Mauritius Day 1

Ha shall talk about my holiday to Mauritius.
And coincidentally this will be my 100th post since i started blogging!Nice!
I'm lazy to upload the photos now,but i shall in the near future lol.

Flight was at 11.45am in the morning of 28th September 2010,Tuesday.
Ate my last bowl of Prawn Mee soup before eating pastry based meals for the next 6 days.Flight was about 7 hrs.
For the majority who don't know where Mauritius is,it is located near Madagascar,with a land mass 3 times the size of Singapore,yet their population is only 1.2 million.
Their timing is 4 hours behind Singapore's,so when the plane took off at 12 noon,it would land at 7pm Singapore timing,but it was only 3pm in Mauritius.Jet lag lol.

As always,no airport can beat Singapore's,it's a fact.
The travel agency got a representative to fetch us and provided us a ride to our beach hotel,"Tropical Hotel".

Well,after living in a concrete jungle for so long,it is sure nice to see miles and miles of sugar cane plantations along the way to the hotel.You can wind down the window to the max and not smell exhaust fumes blowing into your face.So this is one of the great things about not having a too huge vehicle population.

Took us an hour before we reached the hotel.Rather disappointing though.The beach,which we thought would be a nice one,had seaweed strewn all over it.
So the beach had large green patches all over it,super ugly.
The shoreline was also very close to us,so it is almost impossible to walk along the beach during high tide.The water sport activities really failed in this resort.
The reasons are listed below:

1)The beach sucked big time,wait,is there even a beach in the first place,maybe time to do some beach nourishment.
2)The wind is so bloody strong,before you can do wind surfing or anything,i think you would have already been blown away by the wind.
3)The sea corals on the sea bed were all dead,perhaps the effects of global warming??
So snorkeling would suck big time.

Thus not the best image portrayed by the resort i guess.But you would say that this is nature's fault,but nobody held you at gun point to build the resort there right??So ultimately it is still your fault for building it there lol.The resort could have been built at a better location with a nicer beach.FAIL........