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The Riviere Noire district has many attractions. The southwest coast is the centre for big game fishing and to a lesser extent diving and surfing. It boasts good long beaches and the islands best nature reserve, the Macchabee forest and Riviere Noire Gorges. In the north, most of coastal plain is comprised of cane fields but in the south, where the Port Louis road hits the coast at Tamarin, the plateau drops steeply towards the sea.

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  • Areas for Fishing

    The areas for fishing are the St Brandon, Nazareth and Saya de Malha banks on the Mauritius/Seychelles ridge, and the Chagos bank around the Chagos Archipelago, a submarine plateau that lies 2O-25m below the surface.

    Some outfits have a minimum hiring time of around six hours and each boat can normally take five to six anglers. Most operators lay claim to all fish caught using their boat but will usually give you a small share.

  • Shellorama Museum

    On the road from Tamarin to Grande Riviere Noire at La Preneuse, the Shelloramma Museum boasts the biggest private collection of shells in the Indian Ocean. The museum is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm and on Saturday from 9am to 1pm. Entry is free.

  • Trekking Routes-Le Petrin to Tamarind Falls

    This trip begins as for the trek from Le Petrin to Grande Riviere Noire. Follow the forestry road for just over 2km. Take the right fork and continue for another 500m or so to second fork in the road. To reach Tamarind Falls, you must follow the left fork, the right will lead you to the road which connects the Curpipe-Chamarel road with Mare longue reservoir.

  • Dive Centers

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    The best dive center include Le Morne in the southwest, the west coast of Flic en Flac and north to Grand Bay and Trou aux Biches. In the south, diving is good off Grand Port, some of the very best diving, however, is around the northern offshore islets, like Gunner's Ouoin.

  • Flic en flac

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    The name Flic en Fac is thought to come from the old Dutch name. Friend Landt Flaak or Free and Flat land. On older maps this was spelt as fri-lan Flac, subsequently adapted by the Frenf into Flic en Flac.

  • Plaine champagne to Bel Ombre (south coast )

    The trailhead for this walk is the Plaine champagne viewpoint on the Curepipe Chamarel road passing en route a succession of wonderful views through some lovely mixed forest and plantations. The finish meanders along some rather confusing cane field tracks which emerge at the coast road. From Bel Ombre, there are buses to Souillac (change there for Curepipe) and to Tamarin via Baie du Cap. Allow about four hours for this fairly easy walk.

  • Diving - Rodrigues Island

    There are several good scuba-diving locations around Rodrigues, but there is no diving school or public-use compressor on the island, and you need a boat. The best dives are off Pointe Colon and Pointe Roche Noire, on the east coast, and off Pointe Palmiste, on the west. Baladirou, at Pointe aux Comes, is also a good spot. Cotton Bay Hotel has a diving centre which is also open to nonresidents. Henri Tours can also organise diving trips.

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