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Full Day - Tea Route, Crocodile Park, Bel Air Estate

The Tea Route starts with Les Aubineaux, one of the few remaining typical colonial houses of the Central Plateau, built in 1872, and boasting authentic period furniture, paintings and photographs of Curepipe in the past. After a tea break drive through the tea-fields to the village of Bois-Cheri for a guided tour of the factory. Discover the thousand and one secrets of the Tea museum, a real trip through the history of tea. In the South of the estate is Le St-Aubin, a plantation house, built in 1819. Visit the Vanilla House and the greenhouse filled with anthuriums intermingled with vanilla pods. Enjoy lunch prepared from produce of the estate in a Creole dining room. The second stop is in the wild South; the Domaine de Bel Air, nestled in the valley of a little stream named Gros Ruisseau. To the North; the Vanilla Crocodile Park, harbouring Nile crocodiles imported from Madagascar Board the original Mauritian train which takes you on a memorable ride through Paradise Valley across the tropical vegetation and vanilla plantations. Catch a glimpse of ostriches, turkeys and guinea fowl, watch java deer grazing and wild boars in the undergrowth. Admire the sea crashing and foaming onto lava-block cliffs from La Baleine view point and enjoy refreshments to conclude your day.