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Mauritius part 2

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Island life is treating us very well. After our busy week of exploring, we've spent the last couple of days relaxing on the patio, visiting the beach, running and diving. Not a bad life really! Saturday, we decided to take a vacation from our vacation and drive to the southwest side of the island and stay a night or two. We piled into the car and made a couple of pit stops at some of the sights in Chamarel on the way to our weekend digs in Flic-En-Flac on the south west coast. Chamarel is nown for it's large waterfall and seven colored earth. We'd already been told not to expect much from the seven colored earth, but we had to see it anyways (we'd been to Rainbow Mountain and were on a multi-colored earth tour). Both sights were within a National Reserve. The drive was up through some elevation, so naturally, Isa was car sick haha. We saw monkeys on way to the park as well. The waterfall was lovely, but we were at quite a distance. The seven colored earth was int...
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Guayaquil, Ecuador June 30-August 1, 2018

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Made it to Guayaquil, Ecuador! The first stamp in the boys' passports. They were great on the flight from Fort Lauderdale.  Arch slept most of it and Van flirted with all of the spanish women. Yesterday we hiked up to Faro Cerro Santa Anna. It's one of the oldest areas of Guayaquil having survived a fire in the 1800s that wiped out most of the original city. It also was home to a castle which guarded the city against pirate attacks, which is now commemorated by a pirate themed bar. We had a great 360 view of the city. Now for the most important part....dinner. we ate at Picanteria la culata. It was delicious. We shared a shrimp civiche. Mom got rice with shrimp and I had fish in garlic sauce with smashed fried plantains. Luke had the same but whithout the garlic sauce. It was accompanied by some of the most stellar hot sauce known to man. Now were off to the coast! 
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Troux-aux-Biches, Mauritius

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Did you know they had cots for infants on flights?! Did you know that said cot can hold up to 16kg?! I'd like to thank Air Austral for being the first airline to hook us up with one of them. We have been flying now for how long?! I knew there were cots, but we were made to feel as though the cots were only for small infants. Maybe they are on other airlines. If this is the case, they need to get their act together! Our flight was glorious!!! Van napped for 4 hours....in a cot! We landed in the south of the island after sunset. So although we had a cross island trek, it was hampered by the fact that we couldn;t see anything. First impression are good though. Mauritius seems to be very clean and more on par with first world standards. We really didn't know what to expect considering it's an African nation. Our Airbnb for the month is only a couple blocks back from one of the most beautiful beaches in Mauritius. It's got a great terrace and 3 bedrooms, so lots o...
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