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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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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Casela Bird Park.



Casela Bird Park... Bird park near Flic en Flac in the East coast of Black River district..very famous in the island and the Indian Ocean...the main attraction is bird, some 50 species of bird and wild animal. A new attraction is setup now and my friend Liesl Smit have try it out, the lions! For Liesl, Mauritius is nice place to live and work..The bird picture will come soon..keep on watching.:)

La Vanille Corcodile Park


La Vaille Crocodile Park...Very beautiful nature park with many attractions, mostly Animals and Plants!!As the name of this Nature park, the main attraction is the Crocodile, they are from African andother Indian Ocean countries. You may also find many different species of endemic plants and many species of animal, insect and fish.

Crocodile park is also a very nice place to have a visit with Children for educational tour or just a simple visit with familly and friends, its near the famous Coastal village of Souillac and beach of GRIS GRIS in the south of the Island.

DODO Extinct


DODO..the extinct big bird of Mauritius, very famous Worldwide in History, Story and even in kids cartoon, in early days of Mauritius history the DODO was hunted because of its nice meat,as it couldn't fly and was very big it was very easy to catch...very bad that its extinct now, but we still have the statue..many artists and craftmans use the dodo as a key part of there work and product..you can see this statue of DODO at Crocodile park... :)

Tortoise


Another member of this Nature Park is the BIG Tortoise, Big and lazy, brown colour they are also an attraction of this park...these Tortoise can live up to 80 years and can weight app. 300 kgs, kids and adult love to have a ride on them...so this was a little on Crocodile park and these picture was taken by a friend, Liesl Smit from South Africa...

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Statue


Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam also known as SSR, born in Kewal Nagar Mauritius on the 18 September 1900 and became the first Prime Minister of Mauritius in 1961, He led the Island to its Independence from the United Kingdom in 1968, SSR is well known in many Countries as he was known as the father of the Nation, he also put Mauritius in the political and economic stability...long live SSR.......

SSR Memorial Plate

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Memorial Park

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