Day 8 – Beach at Anahita

After a bit of travelling around lately, the plan today was for Anita and family to come over to our resort and spend the day relaxing. The weather is perfect. Here’s a view from our beach in the morning.

Here are the girls enjoying a bottle of champagne on the beach (well, most of them are enjoying it)!

We ordered lunch, went swimming and just enjoyed the place for the day.

The weather stayed nice until the end of the day. The photo below is late in the afternoon.

Day 7 – Chamarel

We’re beginning to see that the weather is a little different here. It frequently rains, but for very short bursts, and often that rain happens at the same time as bright sunshine. See the lovely photo below, taken from our veranda, during the pouring rain.

It’s difficult to see the rain in the still photo, but below is a video taken at the same time.

The rain cleared, and we walked out for breakfast.

Our plan for today was to head toward the southwest of Mauritius, to meet up with Tsiry, Anita and the kids, and drive out to Chamarel. It was raining most of our drive, so we couldn’t put the convertible top down.

Along the route to Chamarel, we passed the Hindu Temple at Grand Bassin. Approaching the temple we see this giant concrete statue of Shiva on the side of the road.

On the opposite side of the road, still under construction, is another giant status; this one of Lord Durga.

Here we are at the sacred lake by the temple. You can see that the rainy weather is starting to clear.

We walked up to the top of the hill beside the lake, and had lovely views in all directions.

At this point, we walked back down and got back on the road toward Chamarel. With the weather now clear, the kids piled into the back of our convertible, and we were able to finally put the top down. The road was fun to drive, around a series of hairpin turns, as it switch backed down toward the ocean. We stopped at a view point along the road, where we had a nice view to the ocean.

I don’t think I’ve posted a picture of our transportation during our stay here. Below is our car parked at the viewpoint.

Before we get to Chamarel, we stopped for lunch at a nice restaurant on the mountain, offering expansive views from our table.

This view is out toward Le Morne.

Here are Nadine and Océane admiring the views.

After lunch, it was only about another 5 minutes to Chamarel. Here we are at Chamarel Falls.

And here is a short video clip of the falls.

Just a short distance from the falls, is a very unique attraction. Below are some photos of the Seven Coloured Earths of Chamarel. This is a small area of sand dunes, containing sand distinctly displaying red, brown, violet, green, blue, purple and yellow hues. I have no idea what causes this, or why the dunes don’t seem to wash away, but they’re pretty cool!

It is getting late in the day, and we have a long drive of nearly 2 hours to get back to the resort along the coastal road. Here is a picture of a sunset from a viewpoint as we were descending the mountain.

For the rest of the drive, we didn’t take many photos, as it was pretty dark. I’d like to come back here to experience this coastal drive during daylight, as I suspect it wold be pretty spectacular.

Back at the resort, we all had a nice dinner, before Tsiry and his family returned home. It was a nice full day.

Day 6 – Port Louis

On our first full day in Mauritius, the weather was nice and sunny.  After breakfast, we got ready to drive across the island to the Port Louis area.

Here are some scenes driving along the roads near our hotel on the east coast.

Many of the roads are rather narrow by North American standards. Outside of the villages, the roads are not badly maintained, are aren’t too bad for driving on. In the villages, the roads seem to have many more potholes and become much more hazardous. One of my first observations is that roads don’t seem to have any shoulder, and there is often a rather large drop or perhaps a high curb or wall right alongside the driving lane. A further annoyance, especially during the daytime, is the frequency with which vehicles just stop in the middle of the road. It’s not legal, but people don’t seem to care. You regularly need to drive into oncoming traffic to get around vehicles, buses, pedestrians, and excessively slow motorbikes and mopeds. Occasionally, you even need to run two wheels up on a sidewalk to get around tight spots of traffic.
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There are sugar cane crops nearly everywhere along side the roads in the country here.

Our first stop was to meet up with Tsiry and Anita at their home in Moka, toward the centre of the island. After touring their lovely home, we all headed out to see a bit of the area.

Along the way, we passed this strange shaped building. You will also see that while many of the roads in Mauritius are narrow and twisty, there are some larger highways.

We started with a visit to the L’Aventure du Sucre, which is an informative museum on the history of Mauritius and the history of sugar production in the country.

Our next stop was to head to the harbour area in downtown Port Louis, the capital city of Mauritius, and have dinner by the water. Here are a few images of the area.

After dinner, we headed back to Tsiry’s place, and then set out for the drive back to Anahita.