5 Things You Didn't Know About MAURITIUS (Hidden Gem)

Bonjour and welcome to Mauritius We will be spending the next seven days in this beautiful island nation off the eastern coast of Africa And it's not only me who says it's beautiful the great Mark Twain once wrote heaven was copied after Mauritius But putting the natural beauty aside Waterfalls this island has a lot to offer from big city life to markets walking through the market here in Port Louis to submarines To street food, I don't know what I'm about to eat, but it looks really good to smiling faces and luxury hotels like Solana Beach It's kind of a one-stop shop with so many stories to tell I'm going to assume that most of you don't know much about this Volcanic country, which is currently celebrating 50 years of independence from the British I surely didn't know much about Mauritius just a few days ago But after meeting some locals who have taken me around and helped me understand their lifestyle My interest has peaked here are five things. You didn't know about Mauritius one no indigenous population Mauritius has been influenced and settled by several world powers like the French East African the British and the Indian as a result the 1.3 million locals are multi-ethnic Multi-religious and multilingual who all live together on an island. That's just 28 miles wide by 40 miles long It's the most densely populated country in Africa to their language is Creole Almost everyone speaks three languages fluently English French and Creole with the latter being spoken 85% of the time Well, Creole is the language which was invented by slaves and Indians, etc Trying to speak French because most people were working for the French There's a word that you need to know when you speak Creole. It's I you are you yeah It's something we use for everything you could say I your Vessel it's hot three Hinduism Mauritius is the only African country that has Hinduism as the main religion I'm here at one of the Hindu temples in Mauritius as you wander around the island from big cities to rural villages You can see colorful Hindu temples that take me right back to my days in India for its remote Mauritius lies about a thousand kilometers east of Madagascar and 4,000 kilometers south of India in the middle of the Indian Ocean Its isolation has led to a unique lifestyle language and cuisine that can quickly be noticed as you run around the island, especially in the food Five it has transformed since its independence from Great Britain in 1968 Mauritius has gone from a low-income Agriculture based economy to a more stable and wealthier one fueled by tourism technology and the exports of sugarcane Textile and fish the financial district of Port Louis is booming Our journey around Mauritius will continue for the next week and I can't wait to see what more we will discover I'm Drew Binsky And if you like my travel videos, please click subscribe and join me as I plan to visit every country in the world