MAURITIUS PORT LOUIS TAMARIN ÎLE AUX BÉNITIERS CASCADES CHAMAREL GORGES DE LA RIVIÈRE NOIRE BAIE DE JACOTET BAIE DU CAP PLAGE DU GRIS-GRIS LA ROCHE QUI PLEURE ROCHESTER FALLS LE SOUFFLEUR TROIS-BOUTIQUES ÎLE AUX CERFS BEL OMBRE CHEMIN GRENIER RIVIÈRE DES ANGUILLES SOUILLAC BOIS CHÉRI PLAINE MAGNIEN MAHEBOURG VIEUX GRAND PORT ROAD TRIP BEAUTIFUL MAURITIUS 22 Early in the morning, the village of Le Morne. The mountain casts a shadow over the still lagoon. The locals live with the ebb and flow of the tides – and Sundays are family time at the beach, jamming on ravannes (the Mauritian goat-skin tambour), playing football and rummy, the local card game. “We farm the land, we live from fishing. Some people have jobs in the hotels. Few really succeed. It’s hard for the youngsters.” MarieJeanne is 84. “We live simple lives. But I wouldn’t be anywhere else for the world.” Definitely not in Canada like her children and grandchildren. Nor anywhere else on the island such as the towns of Quatre Bornes or Port Louis. “Here we help each other out. Obviously there’s gossip and that causes a bit of trouble. But the whole village is there for weddings and wakes. There’ll be plenty of people to see me off,” smiles the With over 6,500 hectares of forest, the Gorges de Rivière Noire National Park covers nearly 3% of the island, looking down on it from Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire, at 828 metres. Avec plus de 6500 hectares de forêts le Parc National des Gorges de Rivière Noire recouvre près de 3% de l’île et la surplombe du haut du Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire, à 828 mètres.
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