Notre Dame Mauritius. It really is a nice place
hi everyone welcome to Notre Dame start the montage wow anyway we're at Notre Dame no no we're not in France we're actually in a town called Notre Dame a village a village called Notre Dame with the church of Notre Dame the main reason why the village is called Notre Dame which means our lady it's there let's go have a look at it no no churches are still closed but not today we get to meet our good friend father Laval again because he spends a lot of his time here as with most of the churches in Mauritius he actually assisted with its building and design father Laval actually had a a cross that he carried around all over Mauritius with him that he actually bought from from France oh you mean that might be it yes so we actually can't maybe we can get him but he left his cross here now he carried it all around France i thought it was small but it might be i thought it was like just a chain cross but yeah apparently it's an actual cross wow so at the the church there's like a garden of remembrance i suppose really nice some benches and palm trees the original church was actually made in 1848 with the the hexagonal bell tower added about 20 years later 1860 but wow wow it is it is grand it's hard to see i'm going to try and get you guys a better look at the stone oh i mean it is it is a fantastically made church and i love the hexagonal thing but this is the original the original part of the church over here and beautiful grounds all around it we'll have a bit of a look around yep it's difficult to get the whole church and it's huge on some of the churches that we see the stones are all square cut whereas this they just took a stone and and shaped the two sides and then just found a place to slot it in so each stone here is unique and you you have to get an exact replica of that stone to replace any that were damaged which is not gonna happen let's face it but you can even see the smaller stones actually filling in so up there you got these two tiny little stones they were just filling in so each stone is actually individual wow apart from the buttresses which are nice and square i think they're called buttresses and isn't it so nice to be out again and the weather look at the sky it is just so cooperating freedom freedom yeah yeah now we have been in lockdown and now we're allowed out so we're gonna enjoy it as much as we can we just can't go in so what's inside will remain a mystery well in all my excitement i forgot to mention while this place is called Notre Dame this is our lady of deliverance so this church our lady of deliverance the town Notre Dame walking for the wait wait walking for the montage that's a community center behind us and a pre-primary school but we're gonna have a look quickly what this is i think this behind me is the presbytery but i'm not 100 sure but it is a beautiful old building look at the stairs wow and then square cut so slightly modern here and proof again that a lintel is held up a roof is held up by its little holders i'm really gonna have to find what what those things are called so that i don't just keep calling them roof holders maybe that's their name they roof holders from now on those are roof holders and then up there slightly older so i don't know how you put the old on top of the new but there you go it's quite pretty yes love to be able to stand on the top there yeah well the rest of the village of Notre Dame is in that direction church here village there let's go explore it because it's got some surprises something for you liverpool fans yeah yeah you'll never walk alone we're now in downtown Notre Dame that's why i got the face mask on and they've got a vegetable market let's just call it a market because it's not just there it's everywhere in this region all around us so across the road there we've got some vegetables and then here as well when sticky up the road too much but here as well so all over wow and we are quite close to Congomah huh so those could be Congomah pineapples lots of people on the road we've got to be a little bit careful oh the thing we've missed most look at those samosas and that chicken sandwich wow wow more um we're not sure what to call them we don't know what those ones are so we'll we'll have we'll have two of those and then we might as well get the potato take one potato and one chili one chili or one over there and one aubergine no that doesn't make sense uh how many do we have we've got too many now this whole bag of food from here in Notre Dame 20 rupees oh i can't wait i'm going to try some i don't know just randomly pick one the unnamed one so this one is unnamed oh they're hot they weren't even sure what they were look at what is that it's like coriander and hmm let's get focused i've never had these in Mauritius before okay and then focus onto me that was a real treat really really yummy thing if you're coming to mauritius get one of those for sure we don't know what they're called but get one trying to cross the road this is how you clean fish look at that such skill but they look like lots of fresh fish all types of fish the type that they were scaling earlier but i think maybe Notre Dame is the place to come and get some fresh fish they look really great and the guy cleans them right here for you wow yeah we just got to go around this person fresh fish i still got some of my treats so we'll get back to that in a minute and then all these vegetables yay we got a new subscriber thank you awesome wow sweet potatoes pineapples we've got a new subscriber really she called me back so she could find out what our channel was look at those potatoes well now we've moved on the potato one Riki's already scoffed half of it but i've never actually had one of the potato ones i got splashed i came too close a little bit of a traffic jam but let's try the potato one they're actually really nice i don't eat quite a lot of it but there is potato in there and it's surprisingly nice because the potatoes soft and gooey like like a mashed potato but it's held its shape with the the batter which has a nice flavor to it i can't believe i've been in Mauritius for four years and this is the first time i've eaten the potato one and we only got one now i'm definitely going to try the brinjal one is that for me that's right cheers everyone so cool you actually just pull up on the side of the road and get your veggies through the window i love it that is really cool drive through drive through veggies Notre Dame has a drive-through and done brilliant well done look at that he must be a pillar of the community oh wow wow that that's the worst joke of the day so far please let it be the only joke of the day look at all the pillars i hope you can see them through the sun there's something over here i've got to go and have a look at i'm really surprised he didn't go on again about his roman ruins i am sure there's a story behind it why park it i mean there's plenty of space so now he's going to park it on top of that one some sort of story there for sure right so practicalities in Notre Dame sidewalks yep mostly check parking actually quite a lot for a small place loads of places to buy fruits and vegetables pretty convenient town there's also a lot of these cold storage places where you get your meats from so you get your veg at the market and then you get your fish and your chicken and all that from the cold storage shop i know it's like yeah this is that's supposed to crossroads downtown all right we found someone who sells briyani look wow steamy oh my word that looks so perfect look at the rice standing up this lady knows how to make briyani okay you can cover it back up thank you so yeah you can see and 100 rupees for chicken biryani very good well there is a pedestrian crossing so we will try our luck lots of cars let's see how it works thank you so it does work there we go pedestrian crossing working what is it called in creole what do you call it what's the name okay i'll find out what rub is okay i love it they look amazing it must be a veggie day because there's so many of them all over good thank you wow it's a bitter cucumber or something like this mangoes you need to know how to cook those properly and this is you make the fried things from them it's quite sweet i'll figure it out i'll remember will you look at that they do free cutting nice machine i wonder if they have one inside wow so we're in the cold storage shop okay right so owner run very clean and neat shop and in that room they cut up the pieces however you want amazing that's so cool thank you look at that so skilled butcher and look at that so you buy your whole chicken and then you cut some pieces for you oh and there's also the big machine if necessary oh merci very nice shop what a fantastic shop it's got everything frozen okay so here we have a gorgeous converted container that is where they sell biryani and i'm sure that briyani looks quite good as well maybe this nice young man will show me what his biryani looks like yeah yeah i just want to have a look yeah yeah oh with the bread on the look at that chicken biryani the best so if you need a chicken biryani come to Notre Dame on a saturday 100 rupees only wow great thank you so much the biryani might be great but i love the container wow in the back there there's a sign okay wait wait wait wait wait we're gonna move the side we gotta move the side because they convert these containers into offices restaurants like this or houses even not only do they do biryani i'm rearranging your whole life okay so there's the phone numbers uh Jaumeer and sons perfect really brilliant converted containers wow excellent thank you you can convert a container to whatever you want train station put them put a lot together and make a mansion so you saw that you've seen this one but they've also at the apollo uh hospital in near maca they've actually done a covert center so you're driving past and you see it these guys made it who knew you could have a container converted by looking at a biryani yes biryani's they bring containers you don't know who does what and this is the pillars from the other side with a wreck at the end this really is a great little area people are so friendly they really are you if you're coming to Notre Dame you have to come and stop at this area where you got the veggies and the really nice friendly people but inside yeah you're gonna need it it's really really cool we just popped in for a quick five minutes of shooting some video of the of the fruit and veg and uh turns out it turns out we've got like tons of new friends what a great place moving on doesn't look like the thorny one but i think it is the thorny one i'll be okay so this is the old train station for Notre Dame uh just around the corner here and there it's probably the light is better that way look at it it is relatively modern for a train station this would probably be in the platform i assume that came down the road here uh the train that is and uh very very short-lived very very short-lived trained uh railway line it came from Terre Rouge and went to long mountain and from 1905 to 1928 only 25 years that's all it lasted there is some more down here but what a great building i mean like i said it was it was completed in about 1905 so that building is quite new but it looks like it was built next to an older building which is this one here now we unfortunately can't get to it but i will just show you a little bit of it from here hopefully you can see some of it there now that is an old building you can tell by the cornerstones beautiful trees like i said it was it was completed in about 1905. really really actually beautiful old building nice and that would have been the railway line no national monument so they could fix it up and put a shop in it and call it the railway or a restaurant you know we love to put our restaurants the restaurant of Notre Dame at the old train station gotta do the obligatory waiting for the train it's my turn to do the Riki it's not coming off to find some tobacco barns Bryan wanted to drive but i'm like no you don't want to bring Tami down this road will get stuck it was a bit of a hike through the mud but so worth it tobacco barns can you believe it and mountains surrounded by the mountains i'm going to try and get through because look at what's here so well come with me as we slash our way to the tobacco barns i got Riki traipsing through behind me oh wow i'm gonna spin you guys around because have i look at that okay that's that's the tobacco barn but have a look at that that's the mountains they are so close the tobacco barns have the best view of the mountains and here they are there's no way in oh look there's a little hatch at the top there this looks like it's been added on on newly but look at them i it's got a tiny little hatch at the top but how would you get the tobacco in here maybe through here i don't know i don't know looks like there was a little hole there this one looks sealed up so maybe there's something in that one but look at these buildings they're beautiful now we're not going to talk too much about tobacco here because oh mud they still do tobacco here in Mauritius and we'd like to actually go and see where they're actually curing it but wow what great old buildings with mandatory lizard okay he'd scamp it off okay now the mud here is a bit too thick i got a little bit excited halfway up my shoe wow it looks like the top has fallen in on that one on both of them actually that's looking straight at the sun but there you go wow what what great farms in the in the just in the middle of nowhere they're not heritage sites or anything or maybe this is the door yes this looks like there was a door here Riki's just talking about flue curing and i think maybe that was the flue and there's one at the top there that i showed you earlier but what's this it's the door you guys just can't see but inside there that's the inside yes and Mauritius when tobacco was actually introduced really early by the Dutch but uh mostly when sugar started going down in price a lot of people started doing careful they're doing tobacco and it's kind of weird because Mauritius is really humid but they use these buildings to cure and dry the tobacco kind of cool it's still here we got a little bit lucky on this one so i'm just going to open this up and put the camera in and we'll be able to see what's inside because i can't actually get in but there we go so that's up there huh that's one of the flues i wonder if i can just make out the other one sorry about tilting you like this ah i can't actually get that but there we are hopefully we can make something out of that uh i will show you what i look like in a second this is why it's hard to actually get a a good video in there this is where i am let me bring you out carefully and then you can see someone's actually planted a tree here so we can look in but we can't actually get in it's just just too narrow but wow what what a great what a great i've never seen a tobacco barn so well i did see that one but not like this not just out there it is a little bit raining the mountains it does it frames the mountains and me might try to take a selfie there i think i think this might actually be turning into a thumbnail yeah that's what i mean where's Riki okay so i'll try my thumbnail first tobacco barns and things so just swing it around a bit and end point oh you're in video did you get some pictures of it me and Riki Riki doing lots of selfies we just have one small problem we got to go back there and my shoe is already full of mud we just like believe me look at how much Riki has gathered i can see paw paw trees growing out of her feet so we're about halfway down oh wait looking for the montage slipping and sliding in the mud for the montage this is almena tower but unfortunately this is as far as we go so there are some great stories around almena including why it's called el mina like literally the mine el mina maybe i'm saying it right maybe i'm not great story you're gonna have to check out Riki's blog yeah so go have a look at that it's got Rosicrucians Rosicrucians i don't know why that name is a name you know it's very familiar but anyway wow the sugarcane is so tall our good family De Chazal Francois set up a sugar mill in this exact area in like 1790 something and this tower won't be his because he would have had a very primitive mine sugar mine sugar mill i've got mine's on the brain uh but this was obviously put here later and it still stands from almeina no he's not peeing in the bushes he's trying to find the shady spot so he can check his camera see if he was filming the wrong way i must have pushed the button okay cool so we don't have to redo all that you're not gonna tap me out ah yeah tapping out this is the Tombeau river look at it go there's been a lot of rain recently but that's not what the greatest thing about the Tombeau river is look what i found i am very precariously balance but how awesome is that bridge let me give you a better view that is a beautiful bridge over the Tombeau river what a beautiful i mean i i i wish i was on that side there's a temple complex here so we can't actually get any closer on this side but i think i'm going to go across the road and get down from that side so i can show you how awesome that bridge is wow well that's the name of the bridge victoria bridge and it was erected in 1866. there we go so this beautiful bridge that i'm standing on is really really old 1866 they built it and they built it so beautifully really beautiful bridge really beautiful bridge let's get off the road now yeah traffic probably also been here since 1868 amazing big chain wow what a great place Notre Dame turned out to be that bridge will take you to it so come down here next time you are in Notre Dame it is beautiful here but visit Notre Dame it is surprisingly great so 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