I spent my last few days in Mauritius exploring other parts of the island to see whats on offer. The Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden caught my eye on a web surfing expedition, so thought I’d head all the way up to the northern part of Mauritius. Its really easy to find you wat around on the main roads of Mauritius. The signs basically tell you this road heads to “The North”, i was of course staying in “The South”.
The botanical gardens were really lovely, very shady and nice smooth paths to follow. I of course found the Giant tortoise enclosure. However it was a pair of smaller tortoises getting it on for the discovery channel that had one mother realise it wasn’t something she wanted her daughter to see, even though the daughter wasn’t quite sure what was going on. All I can say is the male tortoise is a grunter.
I then thought I’d head into the capital Port Louis to see the Photographic museum. I drove around for ages getting lost and stuck in traffic and couldn’t find the place. Maybe google was lying to me…. maybe I was looking for something grander than it was. Anyway, the city wasn’t anything to get excited about, it uses the CAF Urbos 100-3 trams, the same ones used in Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Parramatta and also Kaohsiung, where I was earlier in the year. It does however have a lot of features of a metro like quite a few elevated sections to get across roads etc.
My last day I desiced to explore “The West”, although I didn’t see signs saying this way to the West, so maybe they don’t call it that. It was mostly rainy and the beaches were free of sunbakers. I stopped a few times to try and get some photos but it was a miserable day that I was trying to fill in until my 10:40pm flight departure. All up Mauritius seems to be a very safe and interesting place to visit, especially if you are into beaches and water sports. There are also some hiking trails that look interesting as well. I also ate a lot of chicken curry!
