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So I have never been lucky enough to visit this beautiful island, with tiffany blue Ocean and white sand beaches, offering a mix of activities, diverse culture and outstanding beaches and resorts. I started to think about what I could do if I were to visit…

 You can get direct flight from Heathrow with British Airways or Mauritius airline, and takes 12 hours. When I arrive I would check in to my luxury hotel (for arguments sake let’s just say I arrive at mid day) ditch my bags, and head straight to the beach, feeling a tad jet lagged I would lay in the sun watching the clear turquoise sea crash against the reef that rings the island, until the sun sets. I imagine that to be quite phenomenal!  Ids then put on my glad rags and go for a romantic dinner in the hotels luxury restaurant.

 After a good night’s rest I would be ready for some adventure, I think id enjoy swimming with wild dolphins this can be done in the Tamarin on the west coast. Here you can also take surf lessons. The best places for diving however are Aux Bitches, Peyeybere and Grand Baie. Other water activities that Mauritius offers are Glass bottom boat trips, big game fishing, kite surfing and water skiing. I personally would love to have ago at all of these but maybe not all in the same day!

 On my second day I think I might fancy visiting destinations on the island beyond the resort. I would like to visit the multi cultural capital Port Louis which offers street sellers and shops and vibrant markets. Id visit Mauritius’s natural history museum, and Champ de Mars, which is one of the oldest race courses in the southern hemisphere. I would then head to the small village of Triolet for some history the small town is home to the biggest Hindu temple on the island.

 I would also like to visit the black Gorges National Park; this is located in the west part of Mauritius. There is a vast amount of wild life to be seen, including 1500 birds of over 150 species, giant turtles and mammals such as lions and monkeys.

 Basically there is a lot you can see and do in Mauritius, it is a versatile destination and will suit most people’s preferences.

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Anyone going on holidays to Mauritius should ensure they take time out to explore the island, one source has said.

Claire Wrathall of the Financial Times said she went there last February and was surprised at the number of people who simply stayed by the pool at their hotel, missing out on all Mauritius has to offer outside.

She points out how the island acted as a muse for a number of famous writers including Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Charles Darwin, all of whom were inspired by its natural beauty.

“Certainly the abundance, the variety, the omnipresence of vibrant, vivid colour is striking,” Ms Wrathall states, adding that the sea is a beautiful turquoise colour that turns into indigo over the coral reefs.

However, Twain summed it up in a more poetic manner when he wrote: “Rugged clusters of crags and peaks, green to their summits … What there is of Mauritius is beautiful.”

Jasper Gerard, writing for the Telegraph, also recently wrote that he enjoyed his holidays in Mauritius, saying that he found it to be accommodating, beautiful and diverse.

According to Discover Mauritius, the temperature on the island is likely to be around 22 degrees C in winter.

While China may be the first country that springs to mind when you think of tea, perhaps Mauritius deserves a mention too.

Anyone who loves a good brew can take part in various tours on the island that celebrate its tea-growing heritage, based at the Movenpick spa resort.

The day-long Tea Route tour takes tourists on a tour of Mauritius, leading them through the history of the tea trade, as well as letting them see first-hand how the drink gets to our mugs at a traditional tea factory in Bois-Ceri.

In addition, there is a tea museum, where you can taste a variety of different types of the drink, perhaps choosing some as a treat for loved ones back home.

For those who aren’t such big fans of the drink, Mauritius is also home to some of the world’s most beautiful beaches, as well as the sacred lake, which is housed inside the crater of a thankfully extinct volcano.

Bel Ombre, which is located on the south-west coast of the island, is the resort where much of the tea-related activities take place.

Maurutius is part of the Mascarene Islands and has Reunion Island to its south-west and Rodrigues to the north-east.

It is also famous for being the only known home of the dodo, which is Portuguese for ‘simpleton’.