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Rodrigues,
18 Km long bay 8kms wide, is set in the monochrome blue
of a typical postcard scene representing some 200 square
kilometres of lagoon. The Coral reef is a far away at
7 kms in some parts.
The white sand beaches, the little turquoise blue creeks
and the small islands all around seem to spring from
the "Robinson" story.
In the secret of the mountains, the big cave, caverne
Patate endowed with numerous stalactites and stalagmites,
make the Rodriguais proud of their mother nature. Discover!
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Lying 560 Kms
east of Mauritius, of whose territory she forms part,
Rodrigues has frozen into the role of the Cinderella
of the Mascarenes. Everything diffferentiates her from
her older sister. No green sugar cane fields to be found
here. No hilltops shrouded in clouds. No flame trees.
Instead, rocky hillsides dressed in yellow straw,in
coconut and casuarina trees and in pink flowered brushes
called "vieilles Filles" (spinsters).
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| On a map off
the island, distances may seem to be at a stone throw
but its mountainous and varied landscape, the expanse
of the lagoon speckeled with desert islets reveal a
whole new world waiting to be discovered |
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