Mauritius, Réunion & Seychelles [antikvár]

Sarina Singh A passionate traveller ever since she can remember, Sarina took the plunge and bought a one-way ticket to India after completing a business degree (majoring in Hotel Management) in Melbourne, Australia. She did a marketing executive traineeship with Sheraton Hotels in New Delhi, but latef drifted into journalism. Writing mainly about India, assignments also lead her to the Middle East, Nepal, Kenya, Zanzibar and Pakistan where she interviewed a notorious Mujahideen warlord at his clandestine headquarters near the Afghanistan border. After 3'/i years in India Sarina returned to Australia, did a post-graduate journalism course and then wrote two television documentary scripts. Other Lonely Planet titles she has worked on are Africa, Rajasthan and India. She is currently writing a book about a prominent polo player. Deanna Swaney After completing university studies, Deanna Swaney made a shoestring tour of Europe and has been addicted to travel ever since. Despite an erstwhile career in computer programming, she managed intermittent forays away from encroaching yuppiedom in midtown Anchorage, Alaska, and at first opportunity, made a break for South America where she wrote Lonely Planet's Bolivia. Subsequent travels led through an erratic circuit of island paradises - Arctic and tropical - and resulted in three more guides: Tonga, Samoa and Iceland, Greenland & the Faroe Islands. She returned to dry land for the Zimbabwe, Botswana & Namibia guide and has since co-authored the second editions of Brazil and Mauritius, Réunion & Seychelles, updated the second edition of Madagascar & Comoros and contributed to the shoestring guides to Africa, South America and Scandinavia. Robert Strauss Robert was bom in England. In the early 1970s he took the overland route to Nepal i'i L and then studied, taught and edited in England, Germany, Portugal and Hong Kong. For Lonely Planet he has worked on travel survival kits to China, Tibet, Japan, Brazil, and Bolivia and contributed to shoestring guides for South America, North-East Asia and Europe. He has also written the Trans-Siberian Rail Guide (Compass Publications, UK). From Sarina On my journey through Mauritius, Réunion and the Seychelles, I met some incredibly helpful and hospitable people. In Mauritius, thanks to Joy and Sheena Joymungul for wholeheartedly welcoming me into their family; Abeydin Jaulim for making sure I never got lost; Ramesh and Shyama Lutchmun for their kindness; and Louis Hein de Charmoy for his comprehensive insights on Mauritius. Thanks also to Sandrine Lincoln, Ricardo Lacour, Mr Bissoondoyal, Suchita Ramdin and Raymond Duvergé. On Rodrigues, thanks to Jean-Marc Begue for showing me the island in a style all of his own. Réunion just would not have been the same without Carl Houart, a goldmine of information and delightful person - thanks. Thanks also to Chris Verboven for giving me the cutting edge on a few contemporary 51 < ¦) a