Our Island Mauritius

Our Island Mauritius
Mauritius is a Tropical Island with two seasons, SUMMER and WINTER, situated in the Indian Ocean near Reunion Island and Madagascar, Mauritius is a hub for various Business of import and export, its key local resources are thetourism, textile, sugar cane and IT. Mauritius get its independence in 1968 and became Republic in 1992.

The island is well known for its natural beauty and of course the legendary bird DODO.Mauritius is a fast developing Island mainly in Hotels and IT business, with it white and sandy beaches tourist always say its Paradise ISLAND.

Well this blog is also for my brothers and sisters who are living and studing in other countries.Mauritius have 9 Districts, they are Black River, Flacq, Grand Port, Moka, Pamplemousses, Port Louis, Plaines Wilhems, Riviere du Rempart, Savanne and Rodrigues is an island of Mauritius.

The most widely-spoken language of the country is Maurtian Creole and our national language is English but speak French fluently and some talk also Hindi, urdu, chinese, tamil and bhojpuri. Mauritius has a very high advantage of its multi Regilions and culturals in the Indian Ocean and thats why people like to come to Mauritius.....



Sunday, 19 February 2012

GRAND BASSIN / MAHA SHIVRATREE




This Giant LORD SHIVA Statue is most attractive place in Grand Bassin, its about 200 feets high and its on the entrance of Grand Bassin. This statue was build in 2006 and was complete in 2007 by the collaboration of Indian Architect, this is the second biggest statue of lord SHIVA in the world.

 Some Tourists with the GIANT LORD SHIVA Statue, well I have ask them the permission to
publish there photo on blog and they was very happy of having there photo on my blog...they are from Italy.

 Grand Bassin is a holy place for Hindou where you can find all the Hindou Gods,..legend says that Grand Bassin was blessed by th Holy water of river "GANGA" in the late history of Maurtius Grand Bassin is a place of Pilgrim for the Maha Shivratree...

Maha Shivratree (Night of Shiva) is a Hindu festival celebrated every year .The most significant practices on this day are offerings of Bael leaves to the Lord Shiva, fasting and all night long vigil.



" Kanwars" are wooden made Structures decorated with mirros, statue of Gods, all kinds of Fadrics,Flowers and Plastic decor..."Kanwars" are like Mobile Temples where God Lives and Pilgrims carry it To Grand Bassin for prayer and return back to there main Temple with the Holy Ganga Water!!



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Location: B88 - Grand Bassin Rd, Mauritius

3 comments:

  1. misa12 March 2012 at 01:14

    Thx for that. I hope you transfer all deleted pages from the previous blog.

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  2. Unknown18 March 2012 at 09:45

    Hi Misa, I have already Retrive my old blog and will stay on my old blog, too much work to restart all from zero, so meet you on mauritius22.blogspot.com

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  3. Unknown5 June 2013 at 23:59

    Hi Ritesh,

    The given information is so very interesting for me. Coming from India and North Indian state of Bihar, I see so much of continuity from the Shaivite traditions of India and Mauritius, as the roots are the same. Be it the Shiva worship , Mahashivaratri or Kanwars, so much of continuity through the passage of distance and time. Very interesting information.

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