Life & travel scribbles

Everyone has some anticipations when it comes to visiting particular places, especially if they are known to be 'paradise on earth' for wide range of people. You don't need to or can try to avoid having them, but they always crawl out somehow. This time was not an exception. Almost there, London by the Indian Ocean ;) MAURITIUS -> west part of the Indian Ocean, Republic of Mauritius officially. Along with Rodriguez and Reunion, they form part of the Mascarene Islands. 51.9% Hinduism. Languages spoken: Mauritian Creole, Bhojpuri dialect of Hindustani, French and English. I would say - English little, French - much more. Very Indian, the only difference is - the island ;) So when approaching this island, miraculous to most of people, we felt like it was to be something 'big' for us too. Promptly the reality cleared all the expectations though. It might have been due to us being already a bit spoiled with unforgettable placed we visited...

First stop – Kuala Lumpur (KL) We had a first layover in KL, for a couple of first days in Malaysia, taken up by our fellow friend Asia (actually a daughter of our former boss at POSiR ;)) who blissfully gave us a hand and a shelter in her apartment, shared with her female co-workers. It was delightful to have some free days from 'living on our backpacks' and being able to cook what we actually really wanted to eat at that moment. Such a basic thing, but so much underestimated by a lot of us! You start to appreciate such details whilst being unable to cook for yourself due to overall lack of kitchen facilities (not to mention the common sense when the circumstances allow one to eat for pennies). There was not much to see in KL, so to speak , but we hanged out a bit together, saw famous Patronas Towers (real skyscrapers indeed!) and swam in the common pool in the apartment's complex. Even managed to go to the fancy party were, to my full surprise, Tim Exile wa...