Kitesurfing in Mauritius

Category: Kitesurfing and kiteboarding

Mauritius is the island in the Indian Ocean. It is not difficult to find it on the map. We need to find South Africa, away from the right will be a large island of Madagascar. And on the right of Madagascar there is a small island, indeed quite small, island of Mauritius. Island - an independent state. The former French colony. Local language any terrible mixture of French with the South African and Indian languages. Driving directions from south to north of the island - by car an hour and a half - two. Approximately the same number from west to east. Capital - the city of Port Louise. Island as most island nations living from tourism, sugar cane, exotic fruits. Mauritius is famous for its incredibly tasty tea. The most famous of them - vanilla. Very tasty tea, drink it with milk. That they have on the British left. Island is not only the French owned, but many who have, Englishmen, Spaniards and so on. Drive on the left they also awarded the British. The local population is mainly Hindu. Also a lot of Muslims of Indo-Pakistani appearance. Even fewer Europeans - Catholics. And even more so when most are Chinese. They say they almost twenty percent, but somehow I only saw two.

The island is located on another of our hemisphere, and summer respectively, they have winter. The coldest months of the year - June, July, August. The temperature drops to twenty-five, and sometimes you want to wear short gidrik. It sometimes happens that somewhere, there is cold water for a day or two, and in those days very seriously, start thinking about buying a long suit, but such sentiments are absolutely horrendous very quickly, with the departure of cold water. Apparently some cold currents from South Africa rarely communicates. And in the remaining ninety-nine percent of days barrow in shorts. Season winds - always, except in the summer, our winter - December, January and February. All the rest of the time - just blowing.

I had two trips to the island, both for two months. First June-July, the second in August-September. During the first visit there was no wind one day. During the second four days. But on the kite. In windsurfing - you understand - statistics is a little different. At windsurfing need more wind than a kite. Wind west - west. All barrow occurs mainly in the south. There, for some reason the wind is stronger and simple it is. In the north, the wind is worse, respectively, and more tourists and night life and other pleasures of spa life. In the south, the same at six are dying. No disco, no entertainment, rarely in any of the houses will see the light in the window. All sleep - tomorrow morning at work. Is that a big company and go in the evenings to entertain themselves, or to ride in the evenings to the north - a half hours there and the same back. But typically such matters, no one is - all ukatyvayutsya so that they come in the room and fall.

Virtually the entire island is surrounded by reef ridge in one - two rows at a great distance from the shore. At near reef wave and a half or two meters, a further four - eight. Between the first reef and the shore, the water is smooth and small chest, waist. Wherever I rode this area was six square kilometers. Ideal place to learn kitesurfing, windsurfing and surfing. Huge floor flat fenced water from the ocean reef ridge - a dream instructor in kitesurfing. The bottom of the sand, there are corals, but they are not rigid, the legs do not cut, crunched underfoot. But the shoes, if you're only a teacher - are required. Wave on the reef - this ocean svel. The most that Nina brought the ideal, which is suitable for surfing the net. Dream, but not svel. A smooth, correct, nothing to do with wind waves, which we all used to ride Kazantipe in Anapa, in Dahab, and so on.