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: Mauritius
Baie du Cap
The headland acting as the western cape of the bay Baie du Cap in Mauritius south is not the southernmost point of the island, but it comes close. The beautiful bay contrasts with the landscape of mountains and forest in the most picturesque way, no hotels, no shopping mall, no sugarcane distracting the overall composition. […]
Île aux Bénitiers
Île aux Bénitiers is a small island 500 m offshore in the far southwest of Mauritius. The uninhabited island is a popular place with tour operators who bring their clients to the long sandy beach for lunch after swimming with dolphins somewhere along the Westcoast or snorkelling at the “Crystal Rock”, a small mushroom-shaped rock […]
Le Morne Brabant
Le Morne Brabant is a 556 m high rock on the peninsula of the same name at Mauritius´ extreme southwestern tip. The mountain has been made accessible through various trails, up to the top, to where you might have to do a little climbing on the last stretch of the ascent. From several viewpoints, one […]
Flic-en-Flac
Flic-en-Flac is a village at the Westcoast of Mauritius, and today the second stronghold of mass tourism behind Grand Baie in the north of the island. The main attractions are a seemingly endless public beach, a calm ocean, for being protected by a reef, and a dozen beach food trucks. Besides, you get a lovely […]
Port Louis
Port Louis at the northwest coast is the capital of Mauritius and with 150.000 inhabitants also the biggest city on the island. With its setting at a bay with some mountains in the background and a mix of colonial and modern architecture, Port Louis is neither pretty nor nasty – on ground. Seen from the […]
Mauritius – Island of the dead birds – Die Insel der toten Vögel
Dream island, paradise, pearl of the Indian Ocean – Mauritius has many exuberant names when you read the travel-agency ads. White sandy beaches, a turquoise sea, reefs, corals and magnificent islets with even more white sandy beaches, palm trees, and in one case a full-scale pro golf course designed by former German champion Bernhard Langer, […]
