MO goes Around the World

May the Fourth be with You

I booked a Street Food Tour with a local tour company. Finding the meeting place was challenging after negotiating a ten minute cab ride down from $20. to $10., only to find out the port shuttle drop was actually closer to the meeting point.

Greeting us as we left the cruise terminal.
Yay. The meeting place. And Joe and I weren’t the last ones there.

Two other couples began the tour. One gregarious couple from northern Scotland and another couple apparently from France. They were very French and never looked our way or spoke to us. The tour was in French and English by a Thai. My brain still recognizes some French vocabulary after all these years.

One of the older buildings. The stone is volcanic, mined on the island. Another French couple joined the tour. They didn’t speak or give us a glance, either.
The President’s House at one time.
In Les Jardin. The banyan tree in Avatar!
Our first street food item came from here. It was a crepe-like flatbread filled with a bean curry. Not bad.

I didn’t get a picture of the second item or location. But it was my favorite. A fig Newton-like pastry filled with a local banana filling

Who knew? Dodo birds are native to Mauritius. There is work in progress to bring them back using DNA.
French colonial influence. Reminds me of NOLA.
Third stop. Marinated pineapple and cucumber. The marinade included tamarind, a nut encountered before in Cambodia.
Fourth item. Another filled crepe-like food. Not bad.

The fifth item was a fusion bowl. No picture because Joe and I were running out of time. We didn’t want to become one of this stories of passengers chasing a cruise ship from port to port.

Parked in front of a florist.

The tour included the history of British and French colonialism. With Reunion Island, Mauritius is a country with a parliamentary government.

Back to the ship with a refreshment stop. Four days at sea to come.

And a shout out to Paul. Happy Birthday.

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Marianne Harris

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