Mauritius

Their warm tropical climate and the coralline barrier that surrounds it, makes of this island a place ideal and difficult to forget, is a full garden of resistances covered to a great extent by thegreen one with their sugar plantations.

One is an island of volcanic origin, located to 800 km of Madagascar, 58 km of north to the south and 47 km of this a the west, densely populated (600 peopleby square km). As been it includes to the Island Rodriguez to only 560 km to the northeast.

Its capital is Port-Luis; it is located in the extreme northwest of the island and has 170,000inhabitants. Some sites to visit are the Adelaida Fort, a stroll by the port, pagoda Chinese forehead to the race course, the Jummah mosque, the cathedral of Saint James and by all means the market.

Giving astroll by the center, in means of the ways that cross the tea plantations, one thinks that he is lost in some place of India. When approaching the cities of Curepipe and Vacoas, somebody could thinkthat it is before impeccable meadows of the periphery of any English city.

A little beyond, towards the coastal west, unfold African landscapes. On the other hand, the lagoons and the beaches ofMauricio are between most beautiful of the world, and the island has developed a magnificent garden of chorale of about 300 ideal square km for the diving.

The coast the northwest is delimited byPort-Louis to the south and Perebère to the north. He is hottest, because it is protected of trade winds of the southwest, specially in winter. There is Grand-Baie, the “mauriciano Saint-Tropez”, withits numerous Indian, Chinese, Creole or French restaurants, their elegant stores and positions, its bars and coffees opened until very late at night.

Following the coast, and leaving back Port-Louis,are the famous beaches of Pointe-aux-Piments, Bullet-nails, Montchoisy, Trou-aux-Biches and Perebère.

To the west the coast extends from Port-Louis to Morne Brabant. In all this part of the...