Despite around 84.000 inhabitants, Curepipe doesn´t feel like a town – nor a city, village or any other form of settlement. It´s a dormitory town, a getaway from the Port Louis heat and humidity for the white elite, mainly. Curepipe is the highest of the cities in the islands centre. Its name is said to […]
Schlagwort: botanical garden
Saiadi botanical garden
North of Tolagnaro and just across the road from Nahampoana, Saiadi botanical garden is its counterpart with an emphasis on the botanical side, although there are also tame ring-tailed lemurs as well as brown lemurs, chameleons and many birds. The neatly laid-out park is protected since 1938, but in 2025 we found it quite deserted, […]
