Places in Mauritius - Port Louis - Capital of Mauritius
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Port-Louis, capital of the island is often compared with small Singapore.
The city is a true noisy anthill, grouillante and. The old houses cotoient
imposing buildings there. The beautiful colonial buildings seem lost between
the old dilapidated buildings. In certain streets, one feels transported out
of time and income at the time of the colonies.
The city before very developed around its trade and fishing port. It is a
very active port, which one cannot miss as of his arrival downtown.
On the sea front, one discovers Caudan Waterfront, Vaste shopping centre and
high tourist place with his very beautiful shops of luxury, memories and the
superb casino of Caudan. A very beautiful realization. The entry of the casino
is surmounted by a pirate decoration of ship, with its chechmate, its prow
and of the characters to the mine patibulaire. The interior in woodwork is
of any beauty and represents the interior of a ship of the XVIIIe century.
Caudan, built with the site of the old docks respected traditionelle architecture,
with a key of modernism. A quite beautiful success, for a country in full
expansion.
The Chinese district of Port-Louis is worth the turning. Exiguous pavements
grouille of a cosmopolitan crowd. One comes there to make his races, to lunch
there midday in one of the many small restaurants.
The old houses out of wooden of Xviii-xix 2nd century, are done increasingly
rare. Fire in destroyed more one. The others are replaced by small buildings.
It in this district that one finds the beautiful Jummah mosque , is built
in 1852. The door of entry out of wooden, is of very beautiful invoice. The
patio inside pleasant and is richly decorated.
This mosque is visited every morning, except Friday, day of prayer.
With also not missing the market , appellé the "large bazaar".
Very animated him also, full with odors and colors. Its construction goes
back to 1828. The ground being formerly marshy, one came there by boat!
The section fruit and vegetables are high colors. The stalls of the butchers
and fishmongers surprise the foreign visitor, by the number of flies which
circle among the meat and fish. Here the chain of the cold, is not setting,
but forget a time is little our Draconian rules. The fish is fresh and the
meat is without any doubt much better than in our hypermarkets.
With the turning of a lane you will be able to taste fabulous samoussas, humer
the odor of the slack of the spice merchant, to buy grasses and herb teas
of the salesmen of bohnor, or to find the paréo, or the tee-shirt of
your dreams 2 times less expensive than in the shops for tourists.
The museum of natural history, appellé Mauritius institute , is installed
with with dimensions hotel of the Governor. One finds there a beautiful collection
of naturalized or reconstituted animals, whose DODO celebrates it, emblematic
figure of the island, a kind of large chicken, incompetent to fly, with a
rather sympathetic mine. Today this animal completely disappeared, by the
fault of the man.
If you are amateur of philatelie, a visit of the Postal Museum is essential.
You will see there very beautiful stamp collections, plugs and old plates,
letter-boxes...
The most expensive stamps and rarest of the world fûrent published in
Maurice in 1847. The "two pence deep blue" and the "one penny
red-orange" are worth a true fortune today!
Visit Mauritius
Places to see
Pointe Aux Canonniers
Port Louis
Mahebourg
Ile Cerfs
Grand Baie
Cap Malheureux
Ballade Ileplate
SubMarine Drive
Scuba Dive
