La Laura Mauritius is a hidden gem waiting to be discovered
The garden village in the garden district, nature at it’s best. But there is more, ancient bridges, golden temples, the best village sign ever and the beautiful mountains.
La Laura surprised us both. We were expecting some nice mountain views and a few vegetable fields, boy were we surprised. The village sign is a huge steel wheel, with ‘La Laura 1923’ in bright white writing. It offers the perfect view of the mountains and the old sugar mill chimney. Peter Both has never looked so good.
The main town is compact, but it seemed to me to be designed around outdoor life, with benches, gardens, and viewpoints. The river has been dammed up and there are some water lilies growing on the pond. There are two shops and a gym near the village hall.
The viewpoint is an easy drive, with views of a very distant Coin De Mire, and the Long Mountain valley. Peter Both looms where ever you go in this area. We walked down the path and picked for guavas, while I told the true and fabled story of Peter Both mountain, one had fairies and a milkman, the other had shipwrecks and scuba diving.
La Laura is a developing place with some huge mansions spring up, I point on out, but then we stumbled upon a golden temple hiding in the forest. Well, it just seemed that way, the temple is in well-cleaned lands. It has a gold and silver tower and four horses pulling the chariot of Krishna. It all felt a little surreal.
The Napoleon bridge was huge and beautiful, I kept calling it Nepolionic, which its grandeur requires. We finished off the great day, where we started, at the village sign. Hundreds of selfies later we took our weary bodies home.