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 […]
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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. […]
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 […]
Tolagnaro (Fort Dauphin)
Tolagnaro, also known by its French colonial name Fort Dauphin, is Madagascar´s southernmost city, built on a peninsula at the south-eastern tip of the island at the place of the former settlement Tholongar. After a brief visit of Portuguese castaways in the Antanosy region at the beginning of the 16th century, it has been the […]
Moramanga
Moramanga, `the place of cheap mangoes´, is a junction town with around 60.000 inhabitants along the RN2 running from Tana to Toamasina at the east coast. From here, you can either go to Lake Alaotra in the north, visit nearby Andasibe-Mantadia National Park or one of the associated protected areas like famous Mitsinjo reserve, or […]
Fajã de Água
If Fajã de Água wouldn´t already exist, I´m pretty sure some writer or film director would make it up. It resembles too much a dream or a fantasy, and it is too close to at least a million clichés we´ve been fed with through movies, advertisement and pulp literature, because it´s the place at the […]
Nova Sintra
The capital of Brava Island is Nova Sintra, sitting about 500 metres above Furna down at the seashore. A winding road leads up to Nova Sintra which takes no more than ten or twelve minutes, but you come to a totally different world. Where Furna is hot, humid and rocky, Nova Sintra is green, humid, […]
São Filipe
São Filipe is the capital of the volcanic island of Fogo and behind Cidade Velha on Santiago the second oldest settlement in Cape Verde, founded in the 16th century. It is located on the west coast of the island with a small airport on the edge of town as well as the port Vale de […]
Calheta
Calheta is located at the west coast of Maio and with more than 1.000 inhabitants the second-largest settlement on the island. It consists of two different villages, Ribona a bit inland and Baxona right at the sea. Most of the people live in Ribona where there are at least half a dozen informal bars, a […]
