We had Thanksgiving dinner at my house on Thursday. A variety of folks from the University of Mauritius came, along with all the Fulbrighters, and we had a great dinner of various American and Indian dishes.
More Thanksgiving dinner pictures. Christmas stuff is now out in full force in all the stores. I do not see any house decorations. It is just odd to even think about Christmas - seems so far away.
The red fruit hanging from the tree is Lichee fruit. They start as a hard green husk which gradually turns red. This picture is a week old, and most of the fruits are red now and they are for sale in the markets. Trees are plentiful, and any fruit that hangs over into a 'public space' is pretty much cleaned off of lichees. You peel off the red husk and eat the inside - it is a white jelly like material which looks like and tastes like the inside of a grape. Lichees are widely grown and are processed into jelly, juice and flavourings for ice cream.
Our neighbors lichee tree. They've tied up the branches to the left of the tree because they are so heavy and are hanging down into the front door.
Mauritius has so many religions that when these started to pop up a few weeks ago I thought 'now what holiday??' On all of the island the trees where sprouting plastic flags like these. Then it hit me - it is to keep the birds and fruit bats out of the lichees. The commerical felds (we pass several as we drive places) have entire trees covered with mesh fabric.
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