What a trip ... We had a great time and managed to see almost all the places i wanted to see !

My experience was as follows:

Arriving into MRU is a huge problem ... It took us nearly 2 hours to get out of the airport . There are only 8 immigration desks and all of them are painfully slow .... even the lines for Mauritian citizens moved slowly and they had to fill an additional health form in addition to the Arrival cards. From what i read online - airlines give the pax the arrival card on the flight , This must have changed now as EK didnt do this and once we deplaned the immi guys were handing it out when we approached the counters and were lining up.

So an entire plane of people were filling the forms at the same time and then lining up ... i told my wife to stand in line while i filled in the cards to save a little time.

Once we were out we hopped into a pre-arranged taxi and went for a tour of the Island and managed to fit both the North and South in which was great !

We went to:
> Port Louis
> Pamplemousse Gardens
> Chamarel
> Black River Gorges National Park
>Moi Choisy beach and caught a nice festival there ( international fete i think)

On the way back to airport our driver invited us for dinner at his house too ...real nice guy and the same goes for all Mauritian people we met ... real friendly in a good way.The place is beautiful, but except for their white beaches I feel NZ is much more greener .... We weren't ready for the lower standard of living we saw there.

So there you have it, a very full 10 hrs and we could've fit more in but my wife was tired so just decided to come back to the airport .. the driver's house was a good detour as we saw a trio of Mayan pyramids on the other side of the airport en-route.