I stayed at the five-star luxury resort Long Beach in Mauritius for a week and it was quite simply paradise.
Only moving to wipe the moisture off my heated brow in the searing Egyptian sun, I gazed open-mouthed as I stood in front of one of the most captivating panoramas I'd ever seen in my 47 years of life.
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