Tours on ile aux cerfs island

Ile aux cerfs

Ile aux Cerfs is a paradise for water sports and has the most beautiful beach in Mauritius. You cannot afford to miss this tiny island, delicately poised on the ocean, a real pearl in the Mauritian landscape.

There are no stags (cerfs) remaining on this small island which now belongs to Le Touessrok Sun Hotel and attracts large numbers of holiday-makers on the east coast. The ferry runs several times each hour between 9 am and 4 pm and costs Rs 80 per person return, although this is expected to increase. Le Touessrok Sun Hotel residents travel for free. What you get when you step off the ferry is a sheltered, crowded beach and lagoon for water sports or sunbathing, restaurants and several souvenir stalls. You can walk only around the seaward half of the island, that is, clockwise from the landing site. On the island, there is a boat house where you can hire water skis, pedalos, sailboards, surfcats, Laser dinghies and canoes. Two-hour boat trips are offered to the Grande Rivière Sud-Est waterfall; and there's also a tour around Île aux Cerfs.

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Mauritius is reffered to as a high-class, luxurious destination. Hell, if you know what you're doing, you can have mega-fun in Mauritius for a twentieth of the price you're paying a hotel. Of course, the hotels have super luxurious bathrooms, great rooms, organised tours and everything else - but well, no.

Rent a house (a large one) for two hundred us dollars for a whole month - and enjoy yourself. Mauritius has no significant monuments, but there's got loads and loads of beaches around. You can easily rent a car too - and cruise around the country. There are loads and loads of different beaches around - they're not all the same, and it's fun to "try" all of them. By try, I mean, swim in them, and lie on the beach and check out the babes around. Too bad there aren't any nude beaches around.

Shopping is not bad in Mauritius - officially, there's the "Caudan Waterfront" - on the overall, nice place to shop, but with expensive items. There's also the "unofficial" shopping places, and the markets (one in each big town), where you can find exotic flowers (they aren't very useful, they just die out after a few days. Try to get hold of plastic ones) and fruits. I came round during the period where you could get letchi's and mangoes. Those were really nice. I loved it.

Tourism is a flourishing industry in Mauritius. Also, in here, it's piracy heaven (although they've started to crack down on it - but most of the movies and recent releases appear on sale for just a few bucks), but electronics is significantly more expensive than countries such as hong-kong (they import most of their electronics stuff from Asian countries, so...).

Anyway, there's the very neat Jardin of Pamplemousses to visit, which has got loads and loads of exotic and rare trees - and there's also the museum of Port-Louis. Well, the museum's really a dusty old crappy place, with old farty-tourists occasionally dropping by - but there's this cool collection of sea beasts over there. Well, I had second thoughts about going back into the sea - but I was reassured that those creatures couldn't be found in the lagoon. Heh, I was relieved.

And there's the ever-so-popular Dodo, an indigenous bird of Mauritius, a bit of a fat ass, really. The Dodo couldn't fly (nor run away it seems. A real dumb-ass-bird) - so they were all eaten up.

There's also the small islands, and the big huge Trou-Aux-Cerfs volcano (Dormant. Duh), which are worth the visit. There are beaches everywhere, and life's cool in Mauritius. It's very much worth the visit, and if you have Mauritian friends, you can really get yourself very comfortable for real cheap.