Incredible Week-end; day 1

ThUrSdAy;
the week-end started well
See this mountain? we nailed it!!!
with Andreas we started to Le Pouce; this mountain which is not that far from the university
we had the intention to have a hiking trip but it was always postponned for unlike me Andreas steady in his studies. we met in Quatre-Bornes and after a stop-over at university for breakfast and some administrative stuff





we then set of to the mountain after all in all 3 buses. we reached a marvellous rural place which was kinda funny because the dispositions of the houses were not only weird but you could also see an old corrugated iron sheet next to a new large house (N.B. large doesn't mean beautiful though). If i'm not mistaken this place is called Petit Verger. Beautiful rustic place were there was a lot of old indian women cultivating the land and carrying bags of their harvest on the head


Climbing was not that hard... it seemed like a long ascending walk for there was a pathway that hikers usually take(on this picture; Andreas on the way to conquer Le Pouce). i gotta say that it a a famous hike track. we met some people up there; two french women, a mauritian guy, his french woman and their two kids...
these latter mentionned that they come from Port-Louis
the scenery was nothing but awesome and the fauna & flora was stuning..weird plants and animals and sometimes plants like animals. Although the weather was not that great i have to mention that it was a nice trip because there was a tropical depression nearing the island. the summit was all so cloudy and it was raining most of the time! but i gotta admit that from time to time mother nature was kind enough to allow us to see the beautilful landscape

we also saw some pretty funny things like a small altar to hail Virgin Mary on the middle on the mountain and nearly at the top was an indian flag with this 3-looking symbol. we made our way to the summit where it was really cold and slippery... on this part the climbing was really hard but we didn't see anything because we were all up in the clouds ... we barely saw 5 metres ahead of us...we didn't stay long high there.
we made the way down through Port-Louis... it was much more of a pain in the ass... the land was much more slippery and we nearly fell down various times... and it was so long and boring... just the same view... it seemed like we were not progressing... i even broke my shoes and had to throw them away... fortunately Andreas has slippers
finally there was a different pathway that we say... it was all dry...
we had several stop there.. and finally hit the city near the Champs de Mars horse track
i felt like walking in port-louis was kinda different this day...
there was somekind of magic in the air i guess... i saw all the beauty of it... maybe it was because i've seen it from high up and then soaking into it was a nice feeling... we started with the suburb where you could feel this warm human feeling of kids playing on streets, old shops (see picture)
Then getting into city centre...
Company gardens... sitting of the bench which was the crossroad of my life (where Chinyere and Christin met)
great moments...
back in Quatre-Bornes to pick up some stuff
i went to Flic en Flac
soaked in the sea... prepared and ate dinner
hit some beers with my dear friend... we also had nice chat
Es war eine phantastische Tour und noch einmal vielen Dank an meinen Freund Andreas, der mir ein unvergessliches Erlebnis ermöglicht hat!