When writing about Mauritius, Mark Twain, as he so often did, hit the nail on the head. “Mauritius was made first and then heaven,” the American author said; “and heaven was copied after Mauritius.”
Getting the chance to visit the island for yourself proves he wasn’t wrong. So beautiful it should be signed up by a modelling agency, Mauritius is perhaps the most ravishing island in the Indian Ocean.
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