Plants and trees of Mauritius

Linda i am sure i would like it there .Lovely photos of a beautiful island

Wonderful . Such interesting photos :)

What a wonderful place,and your pics are lovely..so nice to see plants from afar..glad you had a good holiday,Linda..:o)

Stunning Photo`s Linda, I can see why you enjoyed it,
Thankyou, it looks amazing......

Ah, so lovely. Glad you went there Linda, I don't know if we will ever go, but it really is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

What a beautiful place to visit...and such abundance of flowers and fruit...the knarled roots on that tree beside the road were most unusual.

Nice that you have such good memories and the photos to refresh your memory when the holiday begins to fade. Thanks for sharing your photos.

i would love to go there linda, i love the tropical plants and trees, those lily pads are amazing arent they, coulod sit on one lol, glad you enjoyed your trip so much :o)) lovely pics

WOW!!!!! Beautiful pictures, brings back a lot of memories :))))))

how incredible! it looks as though it is the perfect growing environment ~ everything looks as if it is grown to perfection.

love those giant lily pads and the lilies, so many wonders!

thanks for putting these beautiful photos on

It is a wonderful place Sticki....I love it. Our friend Ray is from Mauritius (pic 5) he is a great guide. We constantly stop and run into the bushes to taste a fruit from the trees. I said if you dropped your false teeth they would grow ten fold.

thats very funny!

bit like george's marvellous medicine on everything then!

how brilliant to have a guide from there too.

do you get to taste a lot of local food too? [ie cooked as well as the fresh fruit?]

Yes...Ray and his wife Jenny are our best friends. Ray is a great cook...Mauritian food is half French half Indian. He has a large family and we are invited out to dinner often in Mauritius. They are very friendly people. :0)

wow a fusion of french and indian ~ that has to be good! lucky you!

He makes a mild curry with lots of extras so that each person can have it as hot or spiced as they want. They have lots of different chillies. We are going to visit Rodrigues Island where they grow very small hot chillies. My husband Barry loves them so this is a special trip for him. Photos to follow. :0)

excellent! can you get us a recipe too please? or are the ingredients not available here? I cant imagine it would be anything like as good as eating it freshly made there!

Ray doesn't use recipes...his mother taught him to cook. She used to get up at six in the morning and start cooking. My cousin's son is a chef and he wants Ray's special chilli pickle. He says," Oh you just add this and a bit of that etc," he doesn't think in teaspoons or cups or ounces.

An indian man who once worked with OH came to our house and made a curry for us ~ it was fascinating. the most memorable part was watching him cook the onions, he said that was the basis of all good sauces and to cook them for as long as possible ~ to get that golden brown caramalised look and taste ~ cook for around 30 to 40 minutes!

i like cooking but i tend to follow recipes, i call what Ray does ~ real cooking!

It is Sticki.....real good! You are right about the onions, they taste much sweeter.

the trouble is im always in a hurry, it seems, so i dont cook those onions long enough ~ im sure lots of dishes would benefit longer cooking!