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View from Mission @ Mahé island

Mission, Mahé island

At Port Launay we knew it would be dark soon. The sun sets pretty quickly in these parts of the world and there was still one sight we really wanted to see. So, we had to get moving.

On the narrow road we drove back to Port Glaud and missed the road to Mission, because there were no road signs to be seen, just a small road zig-zagging up the mountains. At the bus stop was an old lady and her daughter and we asked her for directions. The small road (called chemin fôret noire) turned out to be the road to Mission after all.

Higher and higher we drove through the green mountains until we saw a small exit saying Mission. About 0.5 km further there was a parking area, which was, except for one other car,  empty. The parking area was surrounded by some ruins of a school for freed slave children in the 19th century. A short walk led us to the actual viewing point.

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