La Plantation Balaclava
Turtle Bay Balaclava, Mauritius
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A bicycletteuh....
... Cette fois ça y’est, on décolle sur des VTT un peu rouillés, un peu voilés mais qui roulent. Les paysages méritent vraiment le détour : d’abord un peu de route, puis rapidement on tombe sur un petit chemin au bord de la mer, qui nous fait passer de lagons en lagons. Un peu partout des gens sont venus installé un barbec’ pour passer l’après midi. Petit arrêt à un temple hindou sur une ...
Port Louis
... itself seemed to have been caused by previous volcanic eruptions. The mountains had some very odd formations with jagged peaks and weird sharp edges. There were fields of sugar cane and some vegetable crops on either side of the road and we were never too far from the blue Indian ocean.
The bird park is about 10 miles from Port Louis but the morning rush hour traffic was very heavy so it took about an hour to get there. ...
Europe’s Hawaii
... rented out catamarans (read: booze cruise) to venture off to nearby islands. On that day, I hardly doubt, the concentration of alcohol in the bay managed to skyrocket. As such, plenty of late and sick passengers racked up some serious dock time for India.
Luckily, our villa only underwent moderate crashing, so it ended up sleeping about 12 people instead of the original planned 9. But we ...
Day 6: Port Louis, Mauritius
... we found a little spot for lunch.
Daniel had chicken Biriyani and Ai had fish curry, and one coke & one water = RS310 (about £6)
Not bad eh?
We kept wondering around the city but we had enough at the market, plus it was getting towards early evening so we headed back to Grand Baie.
The bus terminal of Port Louis is just a mayhem. So many busses are running for all sorts of route.
You would think ...
Secret, secret Submarine base at Balaclava
Secret Submarine Base Balaclava
Thursday October 29, 2009
Visited today the small seaside town of Balaclava close to Sevastopol and on its own lovely little bay and sheltered harbor. It was here in 1953 that the Soviet Union started building a top secret submarine tunnel for hiding and repairing submarines and to protect them and workers against nuclear attack from the ...



