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BlackBook Dispatch Atul Kochhar, whose Simply India is one of six restaurants at the St Regis Mauritius, left; looking over the Four Seasons Resort Mauritius at Anahita, right; Heritage Resorts’ C Beach Club at dusk roster of attractions, which also include a pair of championship golf courses. Golf also forms one of the chief draws at the nearby Four Seasons Resort Mauritius at Anahita ( fourseasons.com/Mauritius), where in addition to the superb tennis and watersports facilities, an Ernie Elsdesigned track beckons with a half-dozen challenging waterside holes, meandering amongst historic vestiges of existing drystone walls and affording aquatic and mountainous backdrops at every turn. The same is very much the case at the Heritage Golf Club, part of the expansive Heritage Resorts (heritageresorts.mu) on the island’s southern flank. Here, former Michelin Guide Directeur Général Jean- Luc Naret has turned his trained eye to ensuring overall excellence at each of the properties in his role as managing director. A year after launching the eye-catching C Beach Club, his latest brainchild is golf masterclasses with Australian professional Peter Fowler, who will provide tuition to amateurs for five days in December and select dates in 2014. Farhad heydari ESSENTIALS With a new 5m terminal unveiled in September, passengers flying into and out of the island will encounter state-of-the-art facilities unrivalled in the Indian Ocean. Whether by commercial aircraft or by private jet, au fait passengers would do well to utilise the embarkation and disembarkation services of YU Lounge (yulounge.com), which expertly handles customs and immigration formalities, issues boarding passes and provides transfers to and from aircraft with a roster of choice vehicles. Photos Clockwise from top left: Gilliane Soupe, © Four Seasons, © VLH 52 CENTURION-Magazine.COM Log on to CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM for more impressions of Mauritius
