Have you been to this area? - Port Louis Mauritius
hi everyone welcome to port louis we're going from the barracks all the way down to the gardens which are that way and everything in between well this is Victoria house and would you believe very important in Victoria house Mauritius tourism authority who are not sponsoring all these videos not i said not what i really love about this area is all the old buildings and the fact that they're actually fixing them all up well that's a bad example but if you look just across the street all these buildings have been repaired so you're getting new life into old buildings which is epic which should always happen this behind me Edith Cavall court we're going to do a lot on that at some point because you know they have done a lot of work here but uh what is interesting is that building it was the the first place that they actually introduced steel into building in Mauritius but i'll tell you all about it in the next video when we actually visit there this behind me haha the canon but this is the actual line barracks uh we can't actually go in because we're not policemen but if we were policemen we'd go in and show they it a place for landing helicopters but it was built in 17 what what Riki will probably have to tell me if she remembers 1750 wow 1750 and it's a massive structure it takes up the whole of this block all the way down there to all the way over there and it's uh well it's massive and it's old and as you can see it's nearing Mauritian independence day and all the buildings in Port Louis look like this you've got to come down and take a look it's so so cool let's check that out Vona Corona hmm yeah we have a statue to Julius alexander harry he was farsighted humanitarian oh man look at that art on that building wow love Port Louis it is so cool and this area particularly with these really tall buildings places you can barely see the sky art deco also cool oh wow guys this is the national library under that um art deco building just Ken's what happened to Sen's oh wow this building is incredible let's go that way yeah so we haven't actually found the library yet but there seems to be like a whole arcade of food lots and lots of food awesome salad that's awesome i might get a salad i'm just looking thank you so much so it's like one o'clock so if you're looking for lunch you need to get here early because it's all finished but it looked amazing wow these guys have a whole salad section for their sandwiches like a Subway chicken and mayonnaise and wow there's actually a shop with fruits and pickles i've never seen one in an actual shop before this is one of my favorite things about Port Louis you've got a massive glass skyscraper on that side a relatively modern building on that side and look what's in the middle a beautiful old wooden house the cutest building it's so cute i'm just gonna go across and try not to get run over but how awesome is this house a local guy just told me this used to be a Lambic restaurant here so this actually used to be a restaurant oh it's unfortunate i'd love to eat in there i don't know what Lambic is but definitely want some now it's been around since the barracks Riki says 17 what what it survived the fires and everything it's a one of the few remaining uh wooden buildings because a big fire came through this area in the end of the 18s okay and it's about from the 18th fire yes i think it's probably national heritage probably should be we're going to claim it national heritage and just across the road from the beautiful old restaurant the house that's about the fires is the ex-french consulate it's saint george's yeah and i think it was built in like 1886 or something 1886. well you can see it's been spared the fires because it's made out of stone and i think it used to be the house of a doctor beauregard though beagurard oh wow look at the detailing up there it is amazing and just for good measure it goes around the corner and carries on and carries on that way with the beautiful stone and and the and the windows and everything oh man but you can also see it was french beautiful side stones plastered bad stones ha ha the french gotta love them one epic building and Riki just pointed out there's actually street art and there's tons of it on all the buildings here because you were looking at this one yeah and there's ones behind this building behind me is national heritage it was fast tracked in 2016 when they were just going to tear it down it's beautiful i'll show you over the top in a minute but it was a public house and then he got abandoned well worthy of being turned into national heritage what an old beauty oh man you guys are so high up there come on down wow it is another impressive wooden house really cool i hope they can restore it beautifully and turn it back into a public house maybe a pub a pub so this road is called saint george's street and if you're wondering if you're wondering why it should become evident very shortly i hope it's a long way it's a long way there you go saint george's and this giant stone building which is actually a church is why it's called saint george's this is well this is actually saint george's church unfortunately all the front doors are closed i don't know if there's like a side door that you can get in but uh the wooden doors are pretty impressive very nice craftsmanship on that and the stonework of course reminiscent of the british so probably why does it say 1924 memory of somebody okay in memory of something so this is a lot older this is probably about an 1860s church that's my feeling Riki hasn't told me the date yet oh i do like the battlements on top feels like a fort church and you can see inside but all the doors are closed and normally when you've got a big church like this you normally have buildings around it as well so i think that's probably something to do with the church but it is a beautiful old building and it started raining so we're gonna go find some shelter Riki claiming sanctuary from the torrenting rain it really is bucketing down well while we're waiting for the rain to abate a bit this is the wooden carved doors of which i spoke of earlier and location time yes so Port Louis and if you wonder what all these red dots are there's a great informational map i'll put a link that gives you all the architectural features so that's company gardens that's the line barracks and we're gonna do this area in between here if it ever stops raining yep if you'd like to see more of us standing in the rain please hit subscribe we really do appreciate it we get wet for you guys really red letter box day you get it you get it but it's actually it might still work let's cross the road and go see an awesome building oh from this side the church is actually a lot more impressive it's actually quite huge and very rained in the rain continues unabated but here we are at the Cure la Cure la Curee maybe 1830 something Riki told me but i forgot already well you can just walk in maybe it's someone's house i'm a bit worried but looks like they have a well and it is a beautiful old wooden house oh man here comes a little drowned rat it's really really raining wow great place to wait out the rain maybe they've got snacks here's the old well beautifully round cut stones it's not very deep and there's also a nice sitting area here under some i don't know what these flowers are some sort of beautiful flower thing and stone benches pretty cool great old house though well whatever it's for it's great refuge from getting away from the storm i'd just like to thank the guys in there for looking after us on their great balcony awesome oh man you gotta get little bit soggy slippery this is actually the back of the house the la Cure house and you can see the white shingles and they just recently painted them but it looks like there were barns there probably for horses another great old building uh and we've got the doors and everything unfortunately a lot of them i'm seeing are actually closed so i'm just staying in drips gonna go across the road a little bit and it's got the great balconies and everything as you can see up there and it's just it's just not used you know it's a little bit reflective but oreo cheesecake oh man 60 rupees loads of other things here singer snack seems like the sun's come out but it's still dark and boding clouds there but i'm just gonna head down this way past the senator club still pouring with rain but the sun is out massive senator club as the sun pokes its head out so this is edith cavall street in Port Louis and we've never been down here before i know look at that building you're expecting that there's a person going oh wow but he's just busy doing something waiting for him to catch up well this building is beautiful and really really old and now the sun's come out you can see signal mountain up there the sun came out just in time so we could check this building out have a look at it it's it's beautiful old stone i wonder if we can get around a little bit it looks like there are people going inside a little it's the Harel Mallac building actual Harel Mallac building it is stunning look at look at that it's like got a basement area so you probably put your coal and look at the detail cut out of stone that is actually cut out of stone and if you look carefully you can see the fleur-de-lis for french aristocracy oh man a little juliet balcony and of course beautiful wood and glass doors when Riki said i had to come down here i had no idea we're going to find such a beauty and look at the pillars they've been cut with the stonework oh man beautiful beautiful example so in the 1750s this part of Port Louis was inhabited by all the wealthy people and most of the buildings burnt down unfortunately because they wood in like 1890 something and this one was built in its place from 1890 something yeah wow Harel Mallac building you got to come check it out it's epic wow and then here you've got um a recycling point and some parking building is called les cascades quite remarkable and this next to me is the supreme court of mauritius well the wall of the supreme court of mauritius this building is the supreme court of mauritius isn't it amazing i've decided to come down this way i know Riki's already showing you the Courts building and i didn't miss it unfortunately right so this is a completely new area for us this is the Courts building but it also looks pretty old we painted the shutters obviously but great stonework wow nice contrast welcome to Port Louis great building and being used and looked after that's where you have a Courts building well done Courts for putting yourself in such a beautiful old building there's another one here another really beautiful Sicom building they've done a few repairs i don't know if you can see that better than nothing the Sicom group the Sicom group but look at what Courts has done okay we're gonna get run over for sure for sure this time they've taken an old building and put their colours on it it is grand and look you're looking into the window no it's a fake window of course it is it's just a poster on it but wow that that's repurposing yes it's repurposing oh man that's truly great that really is great and this is the company gardens ahead so this is the paid toilet at the company gardens disabled toilet is free toilets at the company gardens you pay your 10 rupees they give you a wad of toilet paper nice and clean and there's soap and water go rescue Susie so we've parked uh in an area where we've done a vlog for you guys before and i'll put a card really really cool all the other old buildings in Port Louis so i'll try not to get run over but yeah there's always something new to discover in Port Louis that's what makes it cool this guy watches all our videos and now he's gonna take a selfie to show his wife seems like Riki's also getting famous thanks nice meeting you guys same here thank you close enough thank you this is one of the difficulties of Port Louis if you park in one of the zones like zone one is maximum two hours but wherever you parked you put your cards right so you know you've got until whatever time then you've got to go back to your car so that's what's happened now i have to go back to the car to either add more parking oh you have to change location i think we're going to try to change locations and get some lunch so our parking expired so we have to move our car and the nearest parking we could find Mahogany shopping promenade and let's hope we can find some food i really hope so i'm so hungry so as you know Mahogany mall has the most stunning bathrooms if you don't know there'd be a card we did a whole video on Mahogany mall there's a lovely smell coming from somewhere oh from the tandoor oven let's check it out yeah yeah there's some other stuff here we should check it out first we will come back so this is Tai Chi okay so there's this cool thai place and they've got a thai fried noodle and she explained that this is more spicy than the Mauritian one so we're going to get the chicken prawn and egg thai fried noodle but there's loads of other things as well and she said it's going to take 10 minutes so i think someone's trying to get a quick little starter snack snack wow that was super quick that was like two minutes one minute awesome starters thanks to KFC oh look at her tossing those noodles that looks amazing KFC unboxing i haven't had these for so long i've forgotten what they're like don't they normally come with a dip or not no no they normally come with a sprinkle but i didn't get one okay it's delicious what's nice about these is they're pretty cheap and they taste like KFC so if you have a KFC hankering but don't eat a whole KFC just get a little bite yeah like them because they're not quite as fatty yeah they're really nice and quite light and they are 140 rupees noodles already it wasn't quite 10 minutes oh wow that is a massive plate of noodle it's huge literally doesn't know where to focus prawn chicken an egg somewhere noodles doesn't it look like a feast well i'm actually glad we came here wow there's a lot of shrimpy things in there a lot of shrimpy things oh that's hot she was just frying it going with the prawns straight up it's got that grilled tossed in the fire thing the grilled noodle oh is she actually properly tossed in the fire she's got skills oh and then you get that smoky flavor on it oh those are lovely noodles can make a slightly better forgot the garlic gotta have garlic on your noodles oh but those are a little bit spicy i can feel it now Bryan's gonna add some garlic he returns the garlic sauce and i got myself a little chilli chili on this side you haven't even tasted them they are a little bit spicy they're really nice she says there's soy sauce in it already right okay give it a go if you get a chance to get the red chilli it's thai chili it is thai oh okay red chili it's a great flavor but wow hot knock your socks off oh no i'm just checking because like for 225 they really haven't scrimped on the amount of shrimp and chicken in there well like we said you'll find this in Port Louis between the barracks and the the company gardens if you just take a left and head out to well on your way to Grand Baie it's a little place called Mahogany mall that face is suffering but she's found something to chase it with hot all that stuff was so hot we had to come here get some gelato getting some gelato this one is salted caramel oh but i'm gonna show you i'm gonna show you move aside Riki gelato the gelato trolley that is awesome and then you got these beautiful flavors yeah always salted caramel always salted caramel and then i'm torn between strawberry and i think this one's a hazelnut chocolate hazelnut which would you get strawberry or chocolate chocolate chocolate definitely and for these two scoops it's only 150. yes 150 for two scoops and then look how big that i didn't expect them to be such big scoops yep they're not skimping on their scoops yeah great thank you something happened behind the scenes yeah it's got a a wafer straw and a marshmallow it's a marshmallow awesome thank you so much thank you they have this great bar area but we got some chairs whoa they're really nice i wasn't expecting it to sink down that much but this is comfy oh wow well they got big cushions i like these but you came for the salted caramel dig in digging i think it's below salted caramel that's the trick oh that is so sophisticated you got so embarrassed now i thinking of just getting clean vanilla to kill that chili that is really nice yeah it is nice when the chocolate is better you think the chocolate's better have you already tried the no no i'm better than vanilla oh yeah better than vanilla oh for sure salted caramel yeah that's great too it's got like little bits of caramel in it it's proper salted caramel but when they say it's a gelato machine it's actual gelato it is gelato it's not like as creamy as ice cream yeah it's smooth it's so smooth and it's got the glueiness to it the glueiness you're like gelato has it has that uh-huh yeah you could mold it and sculpt it yeah it's great and how cool is this place i mean yeah Port Louis amazing for walk around and stuff but to come and chill this place is so these chairs are so comfy huh ah they're really comfy now that i've discovered it it's like no i want to take it home with me i think anyone would note that they probably would because they're all like matching oh no wait there's a blue okay no there's two blue ones these are really comfortable guys come try them out you sink into the chairs you genuinely do so i'm gonna see how Riki gets out of it she lives here now this is a new home don't worry they'll probably feed her that's wonderful after that short food interlude you guys are going back to Port Louis see you back in the vlog it's the new and all but of course i'm going to pitch the old well anyway everyone that was a small piece of Port Louis see you again next time
2022-03-16 14:32
