Today, we visited quite a number of places. The first place we went was a crater. It's name is Trou Aux Cerfs. During the journey to this humongous crater, the guide also told us a lot about their country. Mauritius' 1st town to get electricity is called ' The Town of Light'. It can be 12-17 Degree Celsius. Mauritius' National Flower is the Trochecia. Their National Flag's colour is Red, Blue, Yellow and Green. Red symbolizes liberty and flame tree, Blue symbolizes the Sky and the Sea, Yellow symbolizes the Light which is the Sun and the Green symbolizes SUGARCANE and also their plantation. Mentioning about sugarcane, the guide showed us their oldest sugarcane factory when we were on the way to the crater. The factory is named 'Fuel' and their sugarcane can be 1-3m tall. In Mauritius, there is only left with 2% of forest. Deforestation occurs as they convert them into the sugarcane plantation. Thus, their forest is now under the government's protection. Their sugarcane is refined into sugar and will be exported to the European. They import sugarcane from South Africa for beverage and sugar. They got over 400 varieties of bamboos. The big ones come from Java. Usually, they use it to make furniture and shoes.
The Comfort tree and the Eycalyptus can make essential oil. Their Indian culture is almost the same as the Indian in Singapore. Mauritius carries almost 52% of Indian. Mauritius was formed as there was a volcanic eruption long ago. They do not have high way and transport like SMRT, therefore comparing to Singapore, it's twice the time to travel from one place to another.
Here are the pictures...
These are the Mountains which we saw when the guide brought us to a place where we were able to have a full view of the country.
This is the crater. It is 85m deep and 200m wide. Under the lake, there is still activity going on. According to our guide, there is still lava 900m deep.
This is Shiva. An Indian God which Hindi believes that he destroys devils and saves the people. This statue is made of Iron and Bronze and the skirt is made of concrete.
This is their temple which we had visited. There is a sacred lake here. There is a statue that Shiva is in blue. The guide said that he was once poisoned. Below are some photos taken
of other God.
The above photo is showing a priest praying for a believer.
This is the sacred lake.
According to the guide, this is the tallest waterfall in Mauritius and it is 100m high.
As you can see, this is the plunge pool and there is a rainbow there. Enjoy the photo !
This is the 7 Coloured Earth. It's is named like this because it contained 7 brown colours. It can only be found in Mauritius.
This is the top view of the 7 Coloured Earth.
This is one of the humongous tortoises that we have found there.
Fortunately, we were able to see the male tortoise trying to mate. Unfortunately, the female rejected the male.
By Dianrong and Diantian. Thanks (: