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A Nice and Colorful blog on MAURITIUS ISLAND with great High Resolution photos of its Beaches, Events, Viewpoints, Interesting places and Local life photos with a brief information about the location!!

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Our Island Mauritius - Notre Ile Maurice

Mauritius is a Tropical Island with two seasons, SUMMER and WINTER, situated in the Indian Ocean near Reunion Island and Madagascar, Mauritius is a hub for various Business of import and export, its key local resources are the tourism, textile, sugar cane and IT. Mauritius get its independence in 1968 and became Republic in 1992.

The island is well known for its natural beauty and of course the legendary bird DODO.Mauritius is a fast developing Island mainly in Hotels and IT business, with it white and sandy beaches tourist always say its Paradise ISLAND.

Well this blog is also for my brothers and sisters who are living and studing in other countries.Mauritius have 9 Districts, they are Black River, Flacq, Grand Port, Moka, Pamplemousses, Port Louis, Plaines Wilhems, Riviere du Rempart, Savanne and Rodrigues is an island of Mauritius.

The most widely-spoken language of the country is Maurtian Creole and our national language is English but speak French fluently and some talk also Hindi, urdu, chinese, tamil and bhojpuri. Mauritius has a very high advantage of its multi Regilions and culturals in the Indian Ocean and thats why people like to come to Mauritius.....

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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Pointe aux Caves Lighthouse




This is a very Famous place in Mauritius...With a panoramic view

fromthe Light house it will surely amazed you........Situated in the
EAST part of Mauritius ALBION Village and was build in the
19's to help the incoming boats and actual big Cargo ship to
easily spot there way..Still active and its about 45-46 mts High
gives flashes of light every 10 seconds....its a British type of light
House in the Indian Ocean Island Mauritius....
Its also surrounded by some of the tropical Trees,... Plants and
Flowers, a visit is very easy because its very close to the capital
town Port Louis at about 10-11 kms from it, in french we call it a
" PHARE"...posting some photos of thelandscape near the Light
house Enjoy...

Pointe aux Caves Lighthouse


Belle Mare Beach



One of Best and lovely beach in the island, long about 4-6 kms of
white sand,
Filao trees and coconut trees, its a puiblic beach
with lots of activities all
day and night, its ideal for a camping
with friend and family, water sport is
a very famous in this
region like the Belle Mare Water park, many Hotels like
BELL
MARE Plage Hotel, Constance Hotel, Beau Rivage Hotel and La
Residence
Beach Hotel and many many more....surrounded with
green vegatation, sugar cane
field and a nice Village with lots of
Shops and Markets...

Belle Mare Beach

Flamboyant Tree


Also Know as the Delonix Regia the Flamboyant tree when its
Blossoms is announce the coming of the New Year Ends, like
its in December in Mauritius, very street and location is Vivid
RED and green, you can found these trees mostly in the costal
and North part of the Island..the plant is known also as Royal
Poinciana in certain Island and country like Madagascar!!
This Flower is used as decoration in most local End of Year
parties and Program. Here is a close up picture of this Lovely
Flower!!

Flamboyant Flower

Flamboyant




Jacaranda Tree


As in many part of the World, we can see this lovely tree and its
flowers in our Mauritius Island also...its a Tropial plant and we
can se these flower in Countries like Mexico and Zimbabwe, its
very attractive Purple colour and very tall tree.........

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