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Mauritius : about honoring past heroes

August 17, 2008
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Port Louis is a small capital city, but it is the most beautiful capital I’ve seen. Most of Port Louis lies in a palm-cusp formed by mountains, suggesting a city being held out to the sea, as an offering to it. It is a city founded by Europeans and its citizens today are descendants of [...]

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Mauritius: Arrival

July 23, 2008
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From the window of the plane I saw a rainbow appear. It was at first a short stroke across the top of a hill, and soon it was a dazzling arch straddling the hills, a part of the ocean, neatly marked cane fields, and large haphazard pockets of water. The plane passed it over a [...]

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to Mauritius

July 19, 2008
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I like to enjoy the sea without getting my hands and feet wet (though I can swim a little, in freestyle, the breast stroke, and I’d once succeeded to do the butterfly). Of course, once my hands and feet are wet I go all the way, but I try hard to be dry. I like [...]

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