Trou Aux Cerfs Mauritius (It's a volcano)
hi everyone welcome to Trou Aux Cerfs start the montage so let's go explore it wow wow wow absolutely well the best view in the world these are the toilets behind me 10 rupees to get in it is gated off and you got to bring exact change there is no change given so pay exact change but wow wow wow where's the sign there's Peter Both i don't know oh and there's lake Bagattal walking for the montage with the view behind us you know it's actually really really cold up here i know it's eight o'clock in the morning but it's cold a lot of people actually walk around uh the calderas is it called a caldera walk around the caldera and there's some exercise places where you can do well the guy was doing pull-ups earlier but you can do sit-ups and pull-ups and things shadows it's a nice path this here around me or the terms of the Malagasy slaves they're actually buried up here on the on the on the volcano and they have been concreted over but this is the original spot this is where they actually were and i'm just going to show you inside this one there we go so there's people are still burning candles to them with my shadow on early morning lighting isn't the best for shining towards the sun but it works great on me onwards to the viewpoint the lighting is beautiful for this magnificent tree don't know who owns that house but wow their views must be spectacular wow pretty cool in here just off the beaten path but it looks like someone has a house there back onto the main path it is actually surprisingly steep wow of course hidden behind the tree if you could ever hide the doppler radar station that's 40 meters tall and over the edge here we go here we go oh wow wow steep but we'll get a better we'll we'll go do our intro from from a place where you can see it below the official viewpoint this path that we're actually walking on now was initiated in 1938 by the local residents who pretty much at the time got anything they wanted they wanted a town hall they got a town hall in fact well we'll show you some of that stuff later but the people of Curepipe normally got what they wanted that is a seriously imposing structure there there's actually parking here so you can come up to this side but this is where the kiosk is and the lookout point let's go see it yeah there's about three entrances to Trou Aux Cerfs and entry is free The other viewpoint was better wow there's a bit in shade at the moment yeah you also can't see the bottom is it one of these circles that i stand on i don't know how many of you have actually heard about geocaching it's where you hide something all over the world including what are called earth caches where it's more of an event you come to a place and you get information about it like here this is an extinct volcano so someone has hidden somewhere here not gonna mark any points or anything but a geocache so what you do is you go online you sign up and then you you come to the point like like here it's like treasure hunting and you get to go to places that you normally wouldn't go and over 300 people from all around the world have actually logged this geocache so what you do is you come here you got to answer some questions so some of them are quite tricky about volcanoes but once you get here you just fill out the the the geo information you log it and then you get information about it and you enjoy the view and enjoy the view but there are other types and that's where you actually find something so someone has hidden something in the ground like maybe a penny from their country or a little box with some writing in it and a log book and you get to go and log those as well and there's one somewhere here as well we're going to try and find that one as well but geocaching it actually is kind of kind of makes you want to go out and do something study of concentration as Riki logs a geocache sorry sweetie i didn't mean to film you getting logged in this massive 40 meter structure behind me is actually a doppler radar doppler radar it it's actually one of the only ones here actually doing work i think in this entire region yeah wow it is massive and it can actually see wind speeds up to 250 kilometers away so if there's a bit of a breeze 250 kilometers away that's almost i mean Reunion only 90 can probably actually see all the way to Madagascar and 450 kilometers away can see clouds it can actually probably see clouds on on Madagascar and almost all the way to Australia okay Australia is quite quite far but you know Antarctica Antarctica it's only four thousand kilometers away i'll put a link to the uh website because it's very useful if you want to see if it's going to be rainy and very useful for cyclone tracking which is why it was put here people are really active nice and early jogging around this path we'll walk the whole thing but i do feel like we've been lapped quite a few times looks like a mini caldera next to me just a little in bit but the main ones on that side the reason there's a locked gate here is because the caldera literally from this point just drops off into the abyss okay you can't see it so much with the plants but it really is steep down there wow it's even bigger in person it is really impressive you see that wispy little cloud going past oh yeah it sees that it sees it going on by uh-huh he's got eyes on you well oh yeah he disappeared there's all the geocaches in Mauritius they're actually quite a lot so get into the area we're in which is Curepipe you can see we were just at the earth cache which we have noted and we're heading for this one wow it should be a traditional one because it's shaped like a box and we are so lucky with the weather today because as everyone knows it notoriously rains in Curepipe i'm sure at some point we will get drenched but not right now walking away from the huge blue building for the montage all the Japanese out there you guys helped build that thanks guys i mean there isn't a specific sign to say not to but uh i would recommend no no it looks like a path i wonder how that dude that had the house on the slopes got done enough every day tunnel into a volcano this is a great place to put a reservoir it's pretty much the highest point here oh people are coming now one of the things about geocaching and yes i walked right past it it's somewhere here is that you're not supposed to let other people see you find the cache because non-geocachers like you guys if you aren't are called muggles you don't want the muggles to see you getting the cache so we're going to sneak around i'm not going to show you exactly where it is i'll show you when we've got it but it's here this is it the reservoir when you get here it is hidden here somewhere so i've got the reservoir Riki is going to quickly read the description and we'll try and spot it from there if you're really funny this is really nicely written because like try to find the micro cache inside the volcano before it erupts and you get blown out of the crater that's the that's the volcano down there yeah they used to have it actually inside the crater but now i don't think you're allowed in so update from 2016 is due to imminent volcanic eruption authorities have restricted assets to the crater itself the cache is now in the perimeter of the safety zone that's what it looks like on the phone yeah just a whole bunch of writing so it's somewhere here yeah over 500 people have found it so it's gotta be here let's go in and find out and as luck would have it please open it didn't open it opens the other way we have been searching and searching and so far we've only managed to find an empty plastic bag so i don't know if someone's moved it or i mean i can't imagine that you'd have to go through a gate to go and find it that seems a bit trespassy but we'll give it another go peering into little holes trying to find the geocache i've decided i'm not actually quite good at this because you need to be able to put your fingers in a little hole that's where spiders live well it looks like this one has defeated us unfortunately but there will be more and we will bring you more as soon as we find some these beautiful white flowers and they smell so sweet Trou Aux Cerfs literally means deer hole loads of gates around so people can get in and it's actually called deer hole because the deer used to come and drink the water at the bottom of it so they would come in i suppose sit up here and shoot them i don't know but the deer used to come here so that's why they called it deer hole oh such a drop off into the abyss man it's a pity it's a pity you can't even see how steep that is without uh being here you have to come big hole take note that there might be holes and follow the path now look at that great views so yeah Trou Aux Cerfs is an extinct volcano erupted like six or seven hundred thousand years ago and it's not what not not the most recent and Mauritius because the most recent was like 20 000 years ago but it is considered extinct although it forms due to hot spot activity so i'm not sure if the hotspot from Reunion moves could be in for volcanic activity again hopefully not most likely not standing here after all it appears this is probably the best view we're gonna get of it down there uh there was that other spot which might have been better i think but from here you can just make it out and you can see there is some water down there when you see pictures of it it looks quite shallow but it's really it's really really steep and ridiculously so it's like cliffs literally all the way around there used to be a house down there and i think that's probably the view you want to actually look at when you come here looking into the crate is okay but this is the view wow that's what you want to look at so let me let you know he was a botanist who lived down there in the bottom of that hole uh i can't imagine how he came up and down i assume it wasn't every day he was studying different types of sugarcane which he did introduce some new species successfully okay so reduced reduced introduced some new species and and this is the coolest thing they used to grow wine he had a vineyard can you imagine crater wine or or Trou Aux Cerfs wine we should bring back Trou Aux Cerfs wine definitely definitely bring back Trou Aux Cerfs wine wow that would be so awesome oh man that's Ebene i did a video on that but it looked a lot smaller i mean a lot bigger when i was there all right there's Riki or maybe this is gonna be the thumbnail let's see if we can't get some of that that beautiful view with the sun on us where's the sun it's not quite right but wow smile oh you mean like get it out there great idea having a book nest i mean they are pretty cool take a book leave a book just not here ish not good quite a bit of parking at Trou Aux Cerfs and there's other parking on the other side and toilets for 10 rupees but they're good great day out get a bit of exercise fresh air and enjoy the views go for a walk or run around it yeah as many times as you like once once it's good we have stopped off at the small bakery just on the road to get some treats we've got our treats we're gonna head out in a minute but i thought i'd just show you some of the things they've got here cakes loads of things best bread and apparently the best bread in the whole of pure teeth the whole of Curepipe the best breed he doesn't know so so don't take his word come and try it for yourself thank you thank you oh yes look at this it's a boat because there's actually a ghostbuilding shop in a very famous one but i think it's closed at the moment okay there's a beautiful boat you can see it from outside let's just go outside we'll show you our treats in a minute but you see the boat here and this is the place you're looking for home of the perfect bread the perfect bread not the best perfect the perfect bread and here it is just down from Trou Aux Cerfs yeah we're going to check another shop oh into the light this is actually Beau Panier and natural fruit shop fruit and vegetable shop we're going to have a look in a second but this is what it looks like from the outside or traffic easy to spot right opposite the perfect bread okay it's not that one so here they sell the vegetables like this look at the selection of brede yum what a fantastic idea obviously we in the shops so my mask is up wow this is the biggest selection of leafy things i've ever seen even on that motorbike they didn't have that many and look it's all no packaging absolutely no packaging it's brilliant more shops should be like this absolutely fresh and natural and it looks great i 100% agree with Riki and you've got all the the names and the prices easily available to you i love it just in case you missed it didn't get pumpkin by the piece that is a patate Patate Chenois for those who don't know that's an actual custard apple wow yes yes dragon fruit yes all sorts of exotic things here it is such a place worth coming to thank you nice to meet you it's brilliant wow wow oh what a fantastic shop what a great shop and less plastics makes for a better place and now have a look at the bread place there's cues out the door it really is perfect bread isn't it unfortunately botanical gardens are still closed you can't come to botanical garden during corona times we accidentally drove in because they're doing maintenance so we get to have a sneak peek another place closed unfortunately also closed due to coronavirus but they've got a golf course and a rugby field and lots of other things so if you're here at Trou Aux Cerfs you can come stop at this fabulous restaurant they do really nice foods we're gonna we'll check out but i think they're only open for takeaway at the moment you have a look but it's right up is it this i'll give you some more info on this house in a minute but it is a De Chazal house remember Edward this is probably his dad Edward it wasn't Edward me and Lindsey Edmund was Edmund me and lord lord Lindsay me lord Lindsay can never get his name right but Edmund probably his dad yeah let's have a look at it so from the bakery we've got one of these little sweet treats and i'm eating it with the best what you said it was chicken it's a chicken yeah oh it's for chicken i hope so a little chicken pie let's see ooh nice little chicken pie okay these are a great little treat inside it actually is really chickeny it's like a chicken mince very nicely flavored but look at the size you can just take it and walk and eat and walk and eat it's like the perfect snack walk food yep great for tourists how nice is this weather and Curepipe some people say it always rains here they've got some shops down there and they've been made in the old style but i think they're actually based on this which looks original now if you can make out the top let me just put it there bit bright in the sun but you can just make out that that's original wooden and if we come down here you can see that the original stonework is still here as well so i think the Beauty Zone is actually in the original one and the others have been made to look like it just up ahead is the De Chazal house and there're having a clearance sale so let's go in and buy it yeah i wonder how many lords and ladies walked up this this staircase to go visit the great benefactor wow huh it would have been pretty cool have the carriages coming in coming in through this way coming up the stairs seeing the tiles and walking through this entranceway whoa wow original gas lantern yeah wow what a veranda this must have been it's now a persian carpet place they sell persian carpets but they've got this weaver loom i don't know what they're called that's pretty cool in here pretty cool in here let's see if there's any more to it big old doors like the other place yeah beautiful wow look at that tree bring the carriage around James probably wasn't James Francois bring the carriage around Francois we are going to town yes please we allowed a little visit inside awesome can we film a little yes look at the beautiful floors and these guys are actually maintaining the house keeping a good order because they're selling goods then we maintain the house same time perfect that is the exact weight oh it'll end up destroyed by the trees exactly like so many other places exactly but look at it being maintained look at this teak wood it was brought here from Madagascar wow teak wood from madagascar It was brought in by ship amazing these boats also were made of teak yes and then they broke down so the wood was released and they reused the boat we saw the same thing at Saint Auburn yeah i made it from a boat yeah incredible so look at this because of the sale they've got at the moment thanks to covid you can get this not this exact one because it's already sold it's massive and all handmade and at the moment only fifteen thousand rupees look how beautiful it is with this sofa i love it and this is gems in it this is definitely a wall hanging i wouldn't put this on the floor look at the elephant huh and he's right next to a loom i think they're called looms but if you're coming if you're coming to visit the De Chazal house with the beautiful teak floors and the huge doors massive massive doors they do sell carpets and watches and jewelry we'll get through here and i'll spin you around for a second have a look at this what a great setting for jewelry and carpets in this beautiful old house that they that they're keeping preserved and they said if you can crack the safe 70% off everything come and try crack the safe they'll give you 70% anyway just for coming to make the effort and there's even more through the in the back and the back of the oh wow this oh and their toilets as well have a look where they are down there there's a basement because he did say there's going to be huge huge rooms downstairs but they're not open yet but we'll see what we can see this is where the bathroom's on okay it is a little bit dark but this will be downstairs so they are going to have a big downstairs area it's like literally the whole size of the house downstairs as well so that's pretty cool and just loads and loads of beautiful things in a beautiful old house tell you what i didn't notice it before there's no air conditioning on but it's a lot cooler in the back of the house knock on the walls they're wooden the stonework is underneath us so the basement is made of the stonework but the whole house is made of wood and these guys are actually protecting it oh these are clothes wow so they also have clothes here and handbags i wonder how the bedrooms would have worked where everyone would have slept and more things in here yes this is a stately home indeed a stately home indeed really incredible thank you so much this is one of the windows with a tiny little balcony It is stunning this is quite a quite a unique design feature to actually have the three archways with the the flowers on top it's original detail from the original house so this is the company yeah and if you come down to qrp just down from trosurf contact them they're super friendly really nice and it's a great shopping experience don't know about you guys but i've stopped wearing ties because i couldn't find any but here they are look at that i think you stopped wearing ties because they don't really match a t-shirt but i don't wear ties anymore because they don't match my t-shirts wow i just discovered those gorgeous cushion covers and they're actually a thousand rupees only that is really really not bad this is Lucky hi this is his place all these beautiful carpets he is trying to sell them so come and buy them and we were lucky that we met him because he got to show us this house so thank you Lucky my pleasure thank you enjoy the day walking away from the house for the montage and Riki was right she did say it shingles yeah they're actually shingles on the outside so it's not just wood it's not just wooden it's actually shingled yes it's been painted to protect the shingles what makes it unusual it really does it really is couldn't get into the botanical gardens ah but a little piece of it came to us oh man hey this walking under over 100 year old mask tree it's gorgeous and there's an Eiffel tower i don't know if you can make it out in the distance way over there we're actually in France now there's the Eiffel tower it's actually really close that's why it's not fine otherwise how big would that building be there's the Eiffel tower it's quite amazing it's a lot bigger than i thought it would be it is huge it's surprisingly big Riki's gonna get some video of me getting closer i can't even touch the bottom bit it's really big it's cool and this is just behind the restaurant wow Trou Aux Cerfs i'm doing my outro everyone I thought I said Trou Aux Cerfs wrong anyway so this is the outro so Trou Aux Cerfs the return of the De Chazal and of course some great pastries and the Eiffel tower Paris welcome back anyway from Curepipe see you later
2021-05-19 07:12
