Beachcomber Magazine 05

In the southeast of the island, the Beachcomber Shandrani estate is where the finest encounter happens. T here are those who come to the island for the first time and choose the Shandrani Beachcomber as the gateway to the unknown. You can easily recognise them by their amazement at so much beauty, so much attention and refinement: there’s the hotel, its outbuildings, its round swimming pools that mirror the sky. There’s the garden ringing with bird song, and its paths that seek the sea. There are those who choose to come back to the Shandrani Beachcomber to celebrate their engagement, a reunion, or their wedding. They prepare to experience the magic of special occasions celebrated in the Beachcomber resorts and officiated by the Mauritian Artisans. And for all the guests, the Shandrani offers a unique natural spectacle: the meeting of the Apollonian lagoon and the Dionysian ocean. The union is celebrated at the tip of Le Chaland. To the west, protected by the coral reef, the lagoon watches peacefully over the secrets of the ocean depths around Blue Bay – the island’s most beautiful nature reserve. To the east, the ocean, clear of all obstacles, runs freely for several hundred metres. Full, complete, alive, it fears neither the breath of the sea breeze nor the swell of the waves. The ocean murmur rises, triumphant. And with it the noise of time. Not that of our years, nor even of this passing minute, but of ancient time, which flows through the ages.  THE UNION OF THE SEAS Shandrani Beachcomber Resort & Spa RESORTS THE ART OF BEAUTIFUL 106