is an island further east of madagascar... its about a 4 hour flight from Joburg and surprisingly only another 5 hours to Perth, the northern worldmap view of the world sure distorts images of how far places are down south...
The resort we stayed in, Le Paradis is another hour bar car through small windier roads thru lots of sugar cane plantations. The inhabitants are all Indian but then they all speak french and seem to not have the head wobble movement that Indians usually do. The homes and coconut trees and small roads really do resemble Penang when I was growing up.
Here's a fruit seller on the beach and Nate with batman face painting at the kiddy club. When we got there it was rainy and muggy, luckily it cleared up by the second day and didn't rain again till the day we were to leave.
Kiddy's club has loads of activities for the kids, from making desserts to picking shells on the beach and the kids can have their lunch there with proper utensils, table setting... very civilised and in Ike's case, he got to play with real metal large clinking cutlery.
They also gave the kids a T-shirt and a beach bag (which loren took to the gym to store his stuff). The meals at this place is rather confusing, dinner is free but then you have to eat at the buffet, the a la carte is only a % off and wine is really expensive! we have now gotten really accustomed to the cheap wine prices in S. Africa that paying international prices again really felt painful.
The resort does have some very good restaurants and quite good facilities such as diving, water skiing, a gym, a spa, yoga and all sorts of classes (think aquarobics).
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