Mauritius

Mauritius

We got to Mauritius early in the morning on Sunday the 26th of February and we were cleared from the ship at about 9 that morning. A group of friends and I signed up to do a catamaran tour of the island that included all you can eat drinks and food as well as snorkeling for the full day. We ended up adding a whole bunch of other people last minute on our trip because the company we were booking through, Global Citizens Travel, told us we could all invite a guest on for free so we were able to get a bunch of other people on the catamaran for cheaper than we originally thought!

We completely lucked out with the weather too because there was an ominous dark cloud that was following us on our bus ride to the catamaran that ended up disappearing as the morning wore on and we had a beautiful day at sea. The catamaran was huge and fit the 28 of us perfectly. My two good friends Naomi and Raquel ended up not coming with us on the catamaran so we missed them a lot but it was an awesome group of people nonetheless. There were 8 out of the 12 Pitt students on the catamaran with me and when “Black and Yellow” came on we all went crazy and had some serious Pittsburgh pride in the middle of the Indian ocean, it was awesome!

Side note: The coolest thing about Mauritius for me besides its stunning scenery was that the first Mauritian I talked to was wearing a Yankees hat. If you haven’t already noticed the pictures I have taken of people wearing Yankees hats its because I want to put together a collage of all the people wearing Yankees hats all over the world for my brothers. I then want to include some sort of quote that says something a long the lines of “no matter how far I was from home I still found a piece of my family in each country I visited “… something cool though not my own words haha. ANYWAYS, I never would have imagined that I would find someone in Mauritius with a Yankees hat but there he was! The first person I talked to off the boat! It was awesome!! Now lets hope someone will have one on in Singapore and Vietnam.