The first edition of the Kiteival – Kitesurf Festival – on my beloved paradise island Mauritius was a huge success and I\u2019m feeling honoured having been part of this examplary premier event.<\/p>\n
Top organisation, lovely people, an inventive format and of course the beauty of Mauritius created an incredible feel amongst participants and all the ambitious people who were involved in the Kiteival, consisting of 3 disciplines – long distance, wave, freestyle – at various mindblowing spots. Besides me, two other pros had been invited to join and mingle with the local crowd: Thomas Coquelet from France (KPWT World Champ 2005) and Greg Thijsse from South Africa (expert in wave riding).<\/p>\n
Me, I arrived together with a TV-crew from the ATV (Austrian Television) with the mission of producing a programm about the event. By now, the mission has been successfully completed and our show was broadcasted on Sunday, 15.07. with enormous success. I will keep you updated and post the link as soon as you can view our little movie on the net.<\/p>\n
Already the start of the event turned into a mayor highlight. Y E A H, the \u201cLe Preskil Beach Resort Crossing\u201c, a long distance course race of approximately 25km, set in one of the most beautiful lagoons that I know: Blue Bay on the South East Coast of Mauritius marked the beginning of the kiteival. I was THE ONLY girl in a starter-field of almost 30 male competitors and hey hey hey…listen to that: I WON !! Yes, I kicked a$$ big time and left all the dudes wayyy behind. Hihihiihihihii, you should have seen the guys faces at the end of the race: \u201c…whaaat, only one girl competing and then she\u2019s beating us all…!!?\u201c<\/p>\n
The Crossing was named after the beauuuuutiful hotel that was the main sponsor of the kiteival and thus our \u2019home\u2019 over the course of the event: \u201cLe Preskil Beach Resort\u201c located right at one of Mauritius best spots along the turquoise waters of Blue Bay. A truly authentic Mauritian experience, a dream and certainly THE most beautiful place that I\u2019ve ever stayed in, even more so considering the management gave me the \u2019Lagoon Honeymoon Room\u2019 – THANX !!! \u2013 with an incredible sea view and sunrise in bed every morning!!! I L O V E D it. For more info on the hotel check out http:\/\/www.lepreskil.com I can only highly recommend it, one thing that might not be mentioned on the resort\u2019s website: you can launch your kite directly from one of the private beaches infront of the hotel and kite away into the dream waters of Blue Bay !!<\/p>\n
Another definite highlight was our wave-session in Le Morne. World-infamous wave \u201cOne-Eye\u201c, \u201cManawa\u201c and the other spots… the coolest about it all: organisers of the Kiteival even managed to get a helicopter over in order for the TV-crew to get THE most amazing view. When you see the film, you\u2019ll be blown away, I\u2019m sure!<\/p>\n
Freestyling in the flat waters – it couldn\u2019t get anymore perfect !! – of Cap Malheureux topped it all of.
\nOh man, I could write a novel about those two weeks at the kiteival, however, have so much more to catch up on. Thus, will leave you with a few impressions… and all that\u2019s left for me to say: Come over for the Kiteival 2008, you\u2019ll love it, I\u2019m sure!<\/p>\n
MANY, MANY thanx to all the people who worked so hard to get such a great happening together as well as of course the sponsors: Le Preskli Beach Resort, Vacances a Themes, the Mauritian Tourism Board, Sindbad Watersports, Malibu, Mauri Tours, and Air Mauritius.<\/p>\n
Check out my article about the event that Kiteboarding.de<\/a> published in my Portfolio or the write-up of a french journalist in the local paper the SCOPE!<\/a><\/p>\n In addition several other of my articles about Mauritius already have been published, check out my Spot Guide to the island in German<\/a>, French,<\/a> and Russian<\/a>,\u00a0 have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first edition of the Kiteival – Kitesurf Festival – on my beloved paradise island Mauritius was a huge success and I\u2019m feeling honoured having been part of this examplary premier event. Top organisation, lovely people, an inventive format and of course the beauty of Mauritius created an incredible feel amongst participants and all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[85,83,338,337,33,340,80,72,106,81,334,336,79,335,339,84],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-travels","tag-anne-jauffret","tag-atv","tag-blue-bay","tag-cap-malheureux","tag-competition","tag-greg-thijsse","tag-indian-ocean","tag-kite-the-planet","tag-kiteival","tag-kitesurf-festival","tag-le-preskil-beach-resort-crossing","tag-manawa","tag-mauritius","tag-one-eye","tag-thomas-coquelet","tag-toby-braeuer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}