We’re still a very new website—just 9 months and a few weeks—but our scrawny tentacles are stretching slowly around the globe. We are very pleased to announce that the island nation of Mauritius just became our 100th country. Well, strictly speaking, it’s not our country. It’s a country from which someone visited us. But we feel like we’re all part of the same family now. So welcome. Some day we hope to visit you back and not digitally. The place looks beautiful. And the Lonely Planet online guide begins like this: “Mauritius is a fascinating, world-in-one-island slice of paradise. Its very name conjures up images of tropical luxury and stupendous extravagance.”
Thing we might do in Mauritius: surf (and kite-surf), hike the trails of the expansive (16,244 acres) Black River Gorges National Park, sea kayak the lagoon, dive the reefs or go on a “safari quad-biking trip” among the zebras in the Yemen natural reserve park. (Yes, yes, we usually frown on recreation involving an internal combustion engine. But this looks fun.)
If we missed anything, let us know.
Photo of Mauritius, Chamarel, by Simisa via Wikimedia Commons.
