CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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curated scenic road. tropical mountains, waterfalls, ocean views. A one-way ride of 65 km, Petite Case Noyale to Curepipe - roughly 1 h 25 in the saddle. On the way it passes Chemin Grenier and Grand Bois. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 13 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Mauritius Black River Gorges Route point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Mauritius Black River Gorges Route point 2.
Mauritius Black River Gorges Route point 2 comes up 10 km in. Next is Mauritius Black River Gorges Route point 3.
21 km in you reach Mauritius Black River Gorges Route point 3. Next is Mauritius Black River Gorges Route point 4.
Mauritius Black River Gorges Route point 4, late in the day. Next is Mauritius Black River Gorges Route point 5.
Curepipe is the highest of the big towns on Mauritius, at about 550 metres on the central plateau, and it has a climate to match. It is cooler and wetter than the coast, often misty, with drizzle that locals take for granted, and the town has a slightly faded, colonial air, with old wooden houses, verandas and tall trees. The name possibly comes from soldiers cleaning their pipes here on the march. Curepipe has about eighty-four thousand people and runs into Vacoas and Midlands, so services are plentiful, and the end of the Black River Gorges route is a comfortable finish.
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Mauritius Black River Gorges Route point 5 sits at 65 km, late in the day.