„Deer Island“ is the sparkling gem in the turquoise sea along the east coast of Mauritius. The 87-ha island with its white sandy beaches, mangroves and palm trees is pretty much the type of island most people dream themselves on from time to time. It belongs to the Chinese Shangri-La hotel group with the five-star […]
Schlagwort: water
Grand Bassin & Maha Shivaratree
Thousands of years ago, Shiva travelled the world to show his wife Parvati the most beautiful places creator Brahma had come up with. On their way home, they crossed the Indian Ocean and suddenly saw a sparkling green island, Mauritius. When landing, river Ganges lost a few drops, because Shiva had taken it with him […]
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 […]
Domaine de la Cascade
Over the course of the last 20 years, 136 hectares of land have been protected nine kilometres west of Tolagnaro at the Domaine de la Cascade. In the vicinity of the last lowland primary forest of the great south, the goal at the Domaine is to protect the natural environment, enhance the area through reforestation […]
Pedra de Lume
Pedra de Lume is a small settlement on Sal´s northeast coast that has grown around a tiny port. After long years of only being a stopover for turtle hunters, the interest in the island began to rose when Manuel António Martins started the exploitation of the salt ponds in the nearby crater in 1796. Water […]
Kafue National Park
Kafue National Park is a protected area of many superlatives. With a size of 22.480 km2, it is not only the largest National Park in the country but also one of the largest worldwide and more than half the size of Switzerland. Furthermore, it is the first National Park in Zambia, founded in 1950, but […]
Ngonye Falls – Die Ngonye-Fälle
Driving from Mongu, the capital of Barotseland in western Zambia, on the well-developed M10, which runs parallel to Zambezi River on its eastern side, in south-eastern direction to Sesheke at the Namibian border, one passes the small town of Sioma halfway. South of Sioma, the bridge crosses Zambezi River from east to west, and between […]
Kariba dam wall – Die Kariba-Talsperre
A few kilometres east of Siavonga lies the Kariba dam wall with the road to Zimbabwe. The construction of the dam wall was planned in 1955 by the government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, under the name of Central African Federation (CAF) a part of the Commonwealth. Preparation work started the same year. […]
Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park
Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park is Zambia´s smallest National Park with a size of only 66 km2. It is nestled between Livingstone and Zambezi River upstream of Victoria Falls which are also part of the park. The landscape is stunning with lush vegetation, rolling hills and the majestic stream as a background. Because being situated at a […]
Mosi-oa-Tunya – The smoke that thunders – Der Rauch, der donnert (Victoria Falls/Victoriafälle)
Modern-day Livingstone is located where once Constitution hill had been, only a few kilometres from Victoria falls and the original settlement. That settlement had been founded in 1898 but was relocated to the present place as early as 1901 because of the problematic climate conditions right at Zambezi River. Das moderne Livingstone liegt heute dort, […]
