"The first thing we’re going to eat is what’s flying above you!" Our food tour guide points cheerfully to an enormous fruit bat soaring from tree to tree. A young Dutch girl looks like she’s going to vomit. I tell him I’ll take a bite for science but I couldn’t possibly manage a whole one.
He laughs. Of course, he’s not going to feed us fruit bats. Instead, he takes us, still laughing, to a local roti stand where we eat delicious soft wholewheat pancakes oozing with lentil dhal.
I'm in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island off the coast of Madagascar. This food tour, incorporating Chinese, Indian, African and European food often presented in fusion dishes, is indicative of how fascinating and diverse this country truly is. I imagine, like me, when you hear the words Mauritius, you think of the clearest aqua blue seas, perfect sandy beaches and white tablecloth-covered tables with flickering candles and huge honeymoon suites.
Paradise but not exactly a place to go for adventures. Certainly that was my expectation. But I came to know Mauritius as the destination that has everything.
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