{"id":3153,"date":"2017-05-17T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2017-05-22T05:53:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T09:53:28","slug":"day-11-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=3153","title":{"rendered":"Day 11 \u2013 The North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We haven&#8217;t been up to the north of Mauritius yet, so that was the plan for today.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after breakfast, we set out in the convertible to Moka, to meet up with Anita and family. It was a great day for a drive, and here are some photos from along the way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Mauritius2017\/Day11\/P5172686-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3147\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Mauritius2017\/Day11\/P5172687-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3148\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Mauritius2017\/Day11\/P5172706-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3149\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Mauritius2017\/Day11\/P5172709-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We met up with the family, and then set out in two cars, with our first stop at the Botanic Gardens in Pamplemousses.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Mauritius2017\/Day11\/P5172772-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Mauritius2017\/Day11\/P5172779-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3151\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Mauritius2017\/Day11\/P5172786-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of all the things at the gardens, these giant lily pads were the most fascinating.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Mauritius2017\/Day11\/P5172862-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3154\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Mauritius2017\/Day11\/P5172865-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3155\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Mauritius2017\/Day11\/P5172894-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We continued heading north to Grand Baie, where we had a nice lunch, did a bit of souvenir shopping, and explored the area.  As with most places along the Mauritius coast, there are some nice beaches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Mauritius2017\/Day11\/P5172936-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3157\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here we are at the main harbour just at sunset.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Mauritius2017\/Day11\/P5172979-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3158\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As it was now dark, we turned south back to Moka, and then back to our resort at Anahita on the east coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We haven&#8217;t been up to the north of Mauritius yet, so that was the plan for today. Shortly after breakfast, we set out in the convertible to Moka, to meet up with Anita and family. It was a great day &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=3153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[75,71,76],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mauritius-2017","tag-grand-baie","tag-mauritius","tag-pamplemousse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}