Mauritius doesn’t cease to amaze me. Besides the wonderful Le Morne, Mauritius is home to 2 natural wonders. In the village of Chamarel in southwest Mauritius is where you would find the magnificent Chamarel Falls and the colored earths of Chamarel.

The landscape of Chamarel is truly breathtaking with the neighbouring cascading Chamarel falls and lush vegetation. But what attracts visitor the most is obviously the Seven Coloured Earth of Chamarel.

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A winding road leads from Case Noyale village to the coloured dunes of Chamarel: an undulating landscape of different and contrasting shades of colours. The natural phenomenon created by volcanic rocks that cooled at different temperatures are particularly unusual. The erosion of volcanic ash resulted in the different shades of blue, green, red and yellow earth at the hillside.

It is said that one of the unique features of the coloured earth is that if the coloured earth are mixed together, they will eventually settle into separate layers of the original colour strata. Unfortunately for us, the earth are forbidden to be taken back as souvenir. Though there are mini test tubes with artificial coloured earth as souvenir.

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