Wooden boats, village jetties, no polish
A slower, rougher, more ordinary kind of day out — the way people here have always gone to sea. Fewer guarantees, more real life. These trips are still being finalised.
A wooden boat, a village jetty, and no schedule to speak of
This is not a polished excursion and it is not meant to be. You step into a wooden pirogue at La Gaulette, the engine putters, and you go where the fishermen go — along the mangroves, past the moorings, out to the edge of the seagrass.
From Rs 500
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Leave from the village, eat where almost nobody eats
A day out to a small, little-visited islet. You choose the boat — a pirogue, or the glass-bottom boat if you would rather watch the coral pass underneath you — and you choose the lunch: Mauritian curry or barbecued fish, cooked on the island.
From Rs 1,100
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Canvas, wind, and the old way of crossing a bay
On the south-east coast a handful of families still sail the traditional pirogue. We spend a day with them: a crossing under sail, an anchorage off a quiet islet, and lunch ashore.
From Rs 1,400
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