The village of Chamarel (Chamarel)


This time we will bring you to the southwest of Mauritius, where the village called Chamarel (Chamarel). Last by two famous natural wonders, namely - colored lands and magnificent waterfalls.


As for the multi-colored earth, it is really unique and incredibly beautiful, and formed the natural wonder thanks to volcanic rocks that cooled at different temperatures, and that was the reason for such a wide range of colors. Earth Chamarel painted in a rainbow of colors - indescribable picture!

By the way, colorful land Chamarel received the status of the first sights of Mauritius in 1960. Now sold all over the island tubes filled with colored earth - the main souvenir of this place!

You will be interested to know that this whole area is owned by a certain company «Bel Ombre Sugar Estate», which exempts fee per visit these amazing places. Extensive multi-colored lands are located directly behind the head office of the aforementioned campaign, by the way, its founder was a Charles Telfeyr

The best time to observe the color of the earth is the sunrise, looking round at the moment own eyes this whole area, you can see all 7 colors. It is worth noting that this unique painting is not the only distinguishing feature of these places! Geologists still can not understand the reasons for the constant movement of dune colored landscape Chamarel.



Brown, red, purple, violet, green, yellow and blue colors do not fade, despite the unfavorable conditions of the local climate and abundant rainfall. I must say that this colorful phenomenon completely not solved, but it is assumed that the soil is made up of colorful volcanic ash.

Mauritius is famous in all corners of our planet in many ways blagodayar color lands. When exactly did these unusual geological formation is not known, but as mentioned above, they are most likely formed due to volcanic rock that cooled at different temperatures, with the result that were formed colored layers. For a long time the rain of rocks formed small hills.



Close to the color of the land is another significant attraction of Mauritius, in particular we are talking about the rocky mountains. Also popular is Chamarel Falls, which fascinates the fall of water from a height greater than 20 meters mark!

An interesting feature of Mauritius is the national fish of local residents, which is reduced to the cultivation of sugarcane, the latter are growing everywhere.

Every year Chamarel attends a huge number of tourists. To stop the destruction and damage fragile layers of colored land, local authorities imposed a ban on the fact that tourists and even became just went on its territory. For locals this place is sacred.



World geologists come in bewilderment, because they can not explain why these lands are not destroyed by heavy rains and heat, it literally brings them scrip.

Anyway, the village of Chamarel - unique location of the Earth that you want to visit and see all this beauty with your own eyes.

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