hi everyone we're driving the the past down the hill it's going to be epic join us
on the downside if we go down
we didn't do an intro because we couldn't bother to turn the camera on
this is it's always had problems with this road i think they might have finally fixed it
it's a great piece of road you can only go 80 down it but look at this it's got those views wow
you can see everywhere from Grand Baie all the way to Port Louis then he's cut the trees yeah
i have a look out point be nice if you could pull over here and just go stand on that because it's
really really beautiful yeah and remember on the downwards it's 80. yeah the downwards is 80.
and then on the side here you've got these insane insane gardens yeah like on vertical
cliffs there's like there's all bush around but they're these places the guys obviously
own that land yeah and they're gonna cultivate it it's a cliff face it is really that steep
and it does look quite pretty but oh i'm going to do that wow where they come from
a little bit murky actually oh it's probably just a cloud you get this if you're coming from the
airport yeah this will be your first glimpse of the sea probably well first glimpse of the north
oh seas yeah i think you probably see the south sea when you leave the airport yeah but it's an
impressive downhill yeah nowadays it's deep and there are camera traps and everything
and those hills to our uh left there they do a lot of paragliding off those yes you often see guys
and your ears pop so equalize your ears guys yeah i keep equalizing it's weirdly
sharp and the head is long mountain yeah it's the village of long mountain speed trap okay
really really beautiful piece of road yeah i do wish there was a stop off point on
it not everyone is in a rush to get to Grand Baie
just make out Coin de Mire a little bit in another mountain that looks like Coin de Mire
so the two of them line up quite nicely yeah you get a great view of that from
Zananas
yeah really beautiful area let me show you off this window i love this area
i'd love to come and live here it just looks so farmlandy and
peaceful and tranquil and coconut trees and banana trees and things whipping past you
all right as we go downhill way way too fast but yeah speed limit yes
it's just yeah you do this road often well we do this road often we do a lot because we go inland
a lot and we don't want to drive through Port Louis yes and today we could have driven through
Port Louis but the back route is always better if you're coming this way sir yeah there's never
traffic on this road yeah the only difficulty is is getting up this road going up that hill wow
you go so slowly at times yeah Susie is down to like 60. yeah really struggling on it
yeah and this is the traffic circle one way to Creve Coeur which means heartbreak
also beautiful village you have to come and show you we have to show you guys the point
yeah it was just gorgeous village great stories there and then
off off up this hill like it's 110 speed limits yeah so you're
allowed to go fast here but yeah we're in Susie so my foot is flat
she's got heavy batteries to lug around beautiful weather for a drive it is it's
like perfect there's a bit of clouds the sun is out you can see all the bright colors
yeah and they've just cut all the grass in the middle of the highway so it looks so
super neat and tidy yes yes it's well the sides they haven't done yet but the middle
look at the middle focus on the middle guys ignore everything around them exactly
but yeah very typical driving around Mauritius when you're not on back roads you're probably
on this highway yes bypass road and it's new as in like they didn't have this 10 years ago no
and then like for the last three years are they open about a year and a half ago yeah reopened
reopened because it started collapsing so they've sorted it out now yeah no it's completely fine now
impressive piece of engineering because they have to take down a bit of the mountain side yeah
to get through here but this is normal uh i suppose this part of the road is also new but
you could always have gotten to long mountain those guys through the normal ways yeah this was
just to try and make it a little bit faster for sure to get to the airport now we can literally if
you do the speed limit the whole way they get to the airport in 40 minutes yeah so yeah all of you
guys that haven't been to mauritius for a while it's only 40 minutes from the airport to Grand Baie
it's a really small island oh and this is the new Shell petrol station which is finally opened
you guys have been struggling to get permission because it's always been finished yeah but for
some reason they couldn't open yeah it's got a select shop i keep meaning to go and have a look
yeah and uh you guys probably can't see it but top of Jin Fei yeah the show is invisible yeah
and notre dame is on our right which would have been a great market this morning yes
much time is a lovely little village to go and visit no it is it's one of those
that you just gotta go check out yeah really quite friendly and yeah lots of circles your
GPS now if you're following it will be in 200 meters at the roundabout continue on Terre Rouge,
Verdun, Trianon link road
and there are a lot of roundabouts yeah and most of them are claimed by a company
this particular one isn't yeah but mostly they'll have some company name on it and i don't know if
they have to look after it or if they've just bought right they do they advertise and then
they they look after it i personally think the the La Croisette one is probably one of the nicest
yes yes that is a really good one all the endemic plants are they called endemic plants yes
they make plants on the side of the road
oh this there's not much on the side of this road no trees yeah there's a yellow tree yay saved
wow there really isn't anything on this part of the road nice and quiet oh there's something
but it is quite remarkable that there are big stretches of Mauritius
where there's nothing that's nothing absolutely nothing yeah and it's like one of the most
populated countries in the world absolutely well by landmass i mean you know my square metric
whatever they work these things densely populated
let's see okay no one owns this circle either
the next circle you see will be owned by gold ox or something oh by the way it's it's about to be
the year of the water tiger yes so let's go check out the water tiger but yeah driving in Mauritius
is fairly easy mostly these motorways are labeled like the north until you need to turn somewhere
then it'll be Grand Baie this way Goodland's that way and this is a particularly interesting traffic
circle and i'll show you in a minute because they've designed it really weirdly not really
really not the circle but the whole principle of getting onto the highway yes uh do not be confused
if your GPS sends you away from the road that you want to be on yes that is correct for this piece
this piece is quite bizarre yeah there we are gold ox construct construction and they look after this
one they plant those plants and they send the guys out to cut it i'm thinking yeah yeah i think they
have to look after it all right so anyway you can turn off here and head off to Port Louis
the normal M2 road well it says M2 the north and we're going and this bridge up ahead here is
where the M2 north actually runs yeah we want to be there so we want to be there so you're going to
carry on here right so that you can turn here but you can't turn here no we can't do that no turning
yeah what you have to do is go and go around the traffic circle yep we turn around at the traffic
circle so that we can get back i mean it does make sense it's just a little bit weird it is odd
it's not something i've seen before the concept of having to do this is a good one it is good
it's just a lot of people turn yeah instead of going around the circle they get all confused
but don't worry go around the traffic circle the same thing if you come off the highway and want
to go to arsenal you have to go around the traffic circle or vice versa if you want to go to Port Louis
coming from yeah there you go i suppose it's safer for everybody i think so it's just a little
confusing yeah it is it is quite confusing but now that you know you shouldn't be confused you'll be
like oh Bryan told me about this we're gonna go around the traffic circle and then off the highway
onto the highway yeah it seems to work cool so there you go whoa some people go really fast
and now we're back to all sorts of civilization of the north
back to the normal road hope you guys enjoyed that
well that was kind of interesting hope you guys enjoyed it see you again next time
i forgot what i'm supposed to say are you still filming me that'll do