Back Home - Catching Up - The Seven Coloured Earths

Well, we made it back to Alabama!  Since my computer hard drive crashed the last week that we were in Mauritius I did not get to finish up this blog, so these last entires will feature all the stuff we did while Brian visited us in Mauritius.  It was a great experience for all - travel internationally every chance you can!

The seven coloured earths are located high in the hills of Mauritius, and are famous for being an area of exposed earth that is colored by iron and aluminium oxides.  It is a huge tourist attraction and most are probably pretty underwhelmed when the finally see the Earths, as they are very over-hyped on the island.  As a soil scientist I thought it was pretty neat.  Beautiful waterfall, too.

The water fall at the entrance to the Earths.

The seven coloured earths.

On the way to the seven coloured earths we went past one of the Hindi prayer parks.  It was a special day for some diety because all these people were walking barefoot, many carrying a leafy branch, to the prayer park. 

I tried to get a picture of all the activity at the prayer park as we drove past.