This YouTube travel vlog by Nate and Kara Buchanan documents a short Mauritius trip mixing luxury-resort experiences with local street-food exploration. Early scenes cover resort breakfast, beachfront time, and room features (outdoor bathtub, infinity pool); the tourism authority arranged transport from Bel Ambre (southwest) to Grand Bay/Grand Bai (north) where the hosts will stay three days. The hosts sample local street food (spicy-sweet rotis/roti, fish balls, shrimp/chicken/veg buns) and describe the island's multicultural vibe (mosque, church, Hindu temple). Kara receives a 90-minute Polynesian massage; the episode closes with dinner and reflections on the resort stay.
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Breakfast was delicious, so I'm glad we're only staying here for one night. That weigh like 100 pounds. If we stayed here any longer, I.
Could stay here every night. I love hotels that cater to an international group of people. So I can have Asian dim sum for breakfast, Indian pekara, and some American like omelets and bacon and hash browns. It was wonderful.
Too much food.
Checkout is in about an hour.
Trying to make the most of our time on this beautiful beach.
I wish we could stay forever.
We timed the activities really poorly here. There's like a ton of free stuff to do. But yesterday it was too windy and today the tide is too low this morning and we have to leave this afternoon, so we can't take advantage of any of them.
Guess we'll just have to hang out on the beach again.
Look at all these sea urchins.
That is so scary.
Going on a walk with these guys could be a bad idea.
Time to go.
J.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Hello. How are you? Fine. Welcome. Thank you. Sure.
How are you? I'm great. How are you?
Thank you. Thank you so much. Cheers.
Welcome.
Oh, it's beautiful.
Wow.
The bathtub is on the deck. This is incredible.
Thank you.
This place is so cool. Mauritius, you know how to make good hotels. So we are going to be here for three days, and we can shower in three different spots. Outside in the tab, and inside, we.
Literally have more shower and bathroom space.
Than we do room.
So you've already settled in?
Yes. Can you believe this is real? Like, this is really our front yard.
With an infinity pool. The tourism authority of Mauritius is really taking care of us this week. This morning, they arranged transportation from the southwest side of the island. Let me show you. This morning, they arranged for us to go from Bel Ambre in the southwestern part of the island all the way to Grand Bai in the north, where we'll be staying for the next three days. I brought you something.
Thank you.
They were a gift.
From who?
From the director.
That is so sweet. These are awesome. I've never seen anything like this.
Thank you.
Who actually uses their TV.
On vacation? Oh, so much better. Can't believe I'm saying this, but we're hungry again. So we're taking this opportunity to go out and find some local street food. Because we've been here for, like, five days. Normally, we found street food way before this.
Then we're coming back to our fancy hotel and having dinner.
More eating today.
All right, we're getting on this bus. We have no idea how much it Costs or where it's going.
Two just to Grand Bike.
Thank you very much. We pulled a move from Asia. We jumped on a random bus. I held out money that long. Vietnam. He gave me some change back. So not sure how we get off, but we're going to grandpa maybe. Oh, way to find some street food.
All right, here's the strategy. When you see street food, hit that button. All right, Go, go. We're getting off. We're getting off, we're getting off.
Thank you.
Sorry.
Thank you.
Look how pretty Mar is. Gorgeous.
So earlier when we were in the taxi coming here, I saw a ton people lined up at this little street stand. And somehow we managed to get off the bus in the perfect spot. No clue what's at the street stand. There were just a lot of people lined up here. All right, this man right here. Let's go see what it is.
Hello. What is this, Brody?
What is that?
Let's do it.
Can we get two? And you can make your favorite. Oh, fish too.
Yeah.
All right.
That was fast.
Thank you very much.
Oh, your name is on the.
Nice.
Thank you. Feroz. Trying my first street r.o. and mauritius.
Yes.
For Rose. This is awesome. Super spicy. But this part's, like, kind of sweet. It's the perfect combination. I love it. Delicious. Mauritius strikes again.
Kara got the vegetable and I was with the fish.
Whoa. That super spicy.
Super spicy. Is it fishy?
So good, though. No, it's. I mean it. It's fish. It's not too fishy.
Perfect.
I don't think it just. There's so much spice. It's coming out of my nose currently. Fire may be coming out of my mouth as I speak. I'm not sure.
So good, though. It's like chapati with delicious spices inside of it.
In our wandering after our roadie, we have found the main public beach of Grand Bay. And I can totally see why this is the most popular tourist area. It's gorgeous. There's like a billion boats.
1 billion. We are heading back now. In addition to getting Cara flowers when we checked in, the director has also arranged for her to get a 90 minute Polynesian massage.
God dammer.
We walked by the stand.
This man had buns. We told him we'd take one of each.
What is this? That's a fish ball. Fish ball.
Lovely.
What is it?
Chili and onion.
Okay. Thank you so much.
Yes, it's legit. The spicy sauce is spicy. One was veg with shrimp, one with veg with chicken, and then one was.
All right, try the. I want the veg with shrimp. So you take whatever. This one? No, we don't know. Cara is trying.
I think this one is shrimp.
Cara's trying the mystery.
I'm going to bite it in half so I can away from a.
From the U.S. u.S.
This one is good. Is this the veggie one?
That one is chicken.
Oh, it's very veggie.
Shrimp.
Right?
Sweet.
Mauritius is, like the best of all worlds.
It's like a melting pot of India, Asia, Africa, England.
It's perfect. And there's a beach, and it's warm all the time. Never leaving.
Final verdict.
Delicious.
Mauritius. Let's start a new hat.
It was very good.
It's very far. From USA to here.
It is very far. Almost the furthest we can go.
The.
Other side of the world. I've been to Miami too.
Really awesome.
1991.
Very cool. That's when I was born.
In the last, like, 15 minutes of our walk, we've seen a mosque, Christian church, and a Hindu temple.
I feel like that kind of sums up Mauritius.
Kara's choosing her oil, tropical coconut.
Oh, I really like the vanilla. I love them all. How do I choose? Which one are you gonna get?
I think you have to go with the mauritian vanilla. Okay. We're in Mauritius.
I'm gonna do the Mauritian vanilla. We just chose our oil, and now we get to change into a towel. I think that will be inappropriate to put on the vlog, so.
Best 90 minutes of my life.
I usually don't like massages. Something about being naked and strangers pushing all over you just doesn't do it for me. But that was really nice.
Just took a quick shower outside. I'd say it was comparable to, like, a hot tub. Pretty awesome.
I showered inside, and now we're going to eat dinner at our place.
Dinner was delicious. I had three plates.
I don't know how this girl eats so much.
I think we're calling it a day.
These are the best pillows I've ever slept on in my life. And they're coming with me.
Just kidding.
But I would bite them.
Blooper.
I was strutting too hard. That really hurt.
You saving room for dinner.
Now we're in the changing room and we get to put on these things.
