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. Also See: West Coast Diving
The East Coast district of Flacq is quieter than Trou aux Biche or areas on the West Coast. Beaches are the major attraction and as usual, big hotels have picked prime stretches but there is still
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
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
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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
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
Mauritius is a volcanic island, measuring 58km (36mi) from north to south and 47km (29mi) from east to west.
It lies in the Indian Ocean, roughly 800km (500mi) east of Madagascar, 3860km (2400mi)
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