Mauritius Post 2

We were lucky to visit Mauritius when we did because Saturday began the “festival of lights”. It is a Hindu festival, and over 50 percent of Mauritius is Hindu. The festival, Divali, involved live music, and lots of lights! Although we were not there for Saturday evening when the party really began, we did get to watch a Hindu music festival the night before which kicked off the celebration. The entire waterfront district (including boats in the harbor) all were wrapped in white Christmas lights. The houses had lights strung from the roof to the ground and many of the walkways to houses were light by candles. It was so pretty!


Adventure Park and Beach
Our second day in Mauritius was a blast!! We went to the adventure park. The adventure park is an area in the forest that has been set up as an obstacle course. It is supposed to be very challenging and it definitely was!  We all were harnessed up and began our adventure on a series of bridges to cross, the course got more challenging as we went from everything from swinging logs to tight ropes to ‘leaps’ across gaps in the bridges. It was really a great time. It was right up my alley. The bugs were a little extreme though! Some of my friends came back with over 75 mosquito bites! I did not get it that bad, but I still got a lot of bug bites!  The course took about 2 hours. There was a zip line in the course also that I decided to hang upside down for. It was really fun. After the course we had lunch (rice and curry chicken) and then headed to the beach to cool off. Unfortunately it was kind of drizzly/rainy by the time we got to the beach. Kate, Kelsey, and I still swam so that we could enjoy the Indian Ocean, but we did not swim too long!