Traditional and timeless - Vacoas Mauritius
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- Vacoas is a place that time seems to have forgotten and this makes it very charming to visit. There are less high-rise buildings, wide sidewalks and a traditional tea place that has been in operation for 75 years. Yes the metro is coming and the bus terminal replaced the old train station and post office, but many original shops and their owners legacies remain. Vacoas also has more casinos and aquarium shops that I have seen before in Mauritius.
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0:00 Walk on
1:58 The best days of our lives
4:40 Gold plated
7:36 The famous Cassim
10:22 Surprised how good this is
15:00 the clock tower
19:32 Design elephants
Thanks for watching
Hi Riki and Bryan. It's wonderful to see how you enjoy every moment of life. you both rock it!! Love you loads. Hope to meet you one day.
Maybe one day!
In shaa Allah 😊🪴
Well, I don't know how I got here but I'm glad I found y'all.
Welcome James, grab some snacks and enjoy the ride
Hey Bryan & Riki, i absolutely love watching all your videos!! While I can fly International for the time being, I get to travel virtually to Mauritius with you guys!! The omnicron situation is not going well where I am, sadly…especially right before the holidays, but your videos are cheering me up. Stay safe & thanks again for sharing your journey with us.
You are welcome, hope the situation gets better where you are. stay safe
Bryan and riki, continue your great work... I love watching you guys... Please don't let anyone stop you doing what you doing... You are doing well.... We love watching you... You guys make us feel close to home when we watch you.... You have a great sense of humour.... I have to laugh when I watch your videos.... Especially Bryan's laugh. Hha ha... I wanna wish you both (if you are celebrating) *A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022* Stay blessed and stay safe. ❤️🎄🎉🎊🙏🎁🎅🤗🌲🎁🎁🍽️🍻🍷🍬🍫
So many known places. Thanks a lot.
My pleasure 😊
Sad to say, but Vacoas commercial centre looks a dump☹ reflecting an old place from a time warped era, with sprawling mismatched buildings due probably to bad town planning🧐 Oddly enough, first impression is of an expanded village conglomeration rather than a proper town of its due stature 🤔perhaps the appointed Mayor and his governing team might take note for future reference🤫
I think it grew during very bad style eras, like the 50's ad 70's
Vacoas was never an IN town. Perhaps then due to the Royal Navy base and now the island local police Barack. It. Is still a low profile town.
@@BryanDiscoversWorld part of that town was decimated due to a raging fire. Metro cinema no more due to squabbling in the family...
Over all Vacoas was surrounded by low to medium. Income earners.
There have been atempts to revamp the town with new mixed used development in the 2000s namely through The Regent (an empiric architecture) adjacent to Atchia Ceramica building going direction to the Mayor's administration building unfortunately there has been no sustainable follow up, maintenance and much thought on the mix. Thus sadly it became like the old 50s/70s
You are very right. Vacoas is run-down and has been thus for decades, like a place stuck in the 1970s. It's not even a new situation: I took tuition in the town 1-2 times a week in 2005 and the town centre was already blighted. The bus station and Vavid building stick out like sore thumbs; the contrast with shiny Phoenix next door makes it even worse.
A town in bad need of regeneration, I'm afraid Metro Express on its own won't bring much change.
Amazing thats my zone!!
Great zone
Hello you two, it's you that you are in shape and go for the walk as always. Well very good Sunday to you.yes, the chili cakes are eating that way.Good Day to You
Thanks so much
Hi, sadly you missed a very nice place to eat in Vacoas, not far from the municipality, just opposite Le Nid kindergarten. I think it's called Shoubidou or something like that. The owner is a friendly lady who cooks amazing crispy chicken and really tasty chocolate donuts. Her biryani, especially the vegetarian one also tastes great! The place looks very clean as well which is definitely an important aspect to take into consideration when eating somewhere. Maybe you could give it a try one day! A blessed and merry Christmas to all 🙏🏼
Thank you for the recommendation, we really loved Vacoas so we will be back, maybe we can give it a try. Merry Christmas
Biryani is good near quatre bornes also......i liked it.....😊
Spent my childhood shopping there. God so much changed now. Thank you for this video
Glad you enjoyed it
Welcome u both to my childhood town vacoas ...amazing
Thanks, it is a great place
😊
Used to live in vacoas as an 8 year old also Curepipe remember the clock tower very well where the indoor Market is now used to fields where the farmer grew peanuts
The area has so many back yard farms, I can well imagine the peanut fields
Nice 🙂👍
Thank you! Cheers!
@@BryanDiscoversWorldyou are 🤗 welcome
That's the way I like Gateaux piment. Especially if the chili in it is very hot. I just realised that I don';t know Vacoas that much after all. I had relatives living there but I never really explored the place.
The best way to eat them. Worth a bit of exploring next time you visit
You can feel Vacoas shopping precinct has more soul than these new lifeless sterile malls crammed with overseas fast food outlets. You should have visited the church La Visitation, the Gymknana, the big ancient post office and La Caverne cave.
That will be part of the next trip
@@BryanDiscoversWorld Hi I hope the lifestyle of Vacoas never changes and stays simple and down to earth. I cannot stand these places (malls, tourists hubs) which are trying to copy overseas trends. So depressing. Looks so cardboard like. Places in Port Louis, Rose Hill, Beau Bassin, Goodlands, Curepipe, Belle Rose, St Pierre have not been corrupted by this foreign invasion of consumerism and greed so far. Simplicity is best.
Actually Port Louis and Rose Hill have got lots of small sized malls and even smaller family-owned shops. Vacoas is run down and refusing to move with the times, not vintage by any measure. The anarchism and archaic town centre is driving its shops to a slow death.
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia Putting up these soulless malls, Pizza Huts, Domino's and MacDonald fast food outlets moving on with the times and progress to you? You are what is exactly wrong with some Mauririans. Blinded by consumerism and materialism.
hey bro love!!! your videos for they are very informative, before i vist a place here in mauritus i watch your vidoes for a in depth idea of what to look out for when there,thanks for the videos Brain and riki!!
Glad you like them!
Vacoas actually has two very nice asian restaurants...one is called Ah Youn , they make the best noodle fried rice in the country, they do have one in Flic en Flac but the first one opened was in Vacoas, it is just across the road from Regent shopping complex....the second one is called Colorado which is on the other side of Savoy cinema, best mix of asian and european food
Thank you so much for the info
You know thi
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Vacoas stopped in time
very much so
Hey when are you coming to visit bon accueil?
hopefully soon
You should visit port Louis there's so much interesting stuff there
Ok, we will visit it more
@@BryanDiscoversWorld When you do, go for a walk in Le Dauget forest up to the old hill station and water reservoir or maybe even go up the old road over the Moka range. Pay some of the creole boys to guide you, especially if they go on a "Tang" hunt.
Cassim is owned by my uncle! Omg!
wow, what a great place
The only cool stuffs in Vacoas are the Municipality lawn and the woodland around ENT hospital... other than these it is a very messy place, with bad taste architecture and colors, clad with mould and moss. The climate is pretty cool though
As for Phoenix it is the most pedestrian unfriendly place in Mauritius.
I'll check out Phoenix, I though Goodlands was the worst
AND OLD GHOSTLY BUILDINGS.
Got married in Mauritius in 2019 and my wife is from Phoenix and both residing in Canada Montreal 🇨🇦
great, hopefully you get a revisit though our videos
The Regent hotel
Was the spot for HMS MAURITIUS brits
ok, thanks, I knew they were somewhere
HMS Navy entire base(locally known as Gymkhana) was closed and taken over by SMF in 1976. UK Govt decided base was surplus to requirements due to political and economic reasons as part of their strategic restructuring by Harold Wilson(Labour).Govt back then. Yes Regent Hotel was a usual watering hole of those Brits personnel. That establishment was owned back then by the Manta family of Phoenix.
Another drinking place of the Brits was a smaller joint next to Jaddoo Shop(shirtmakers) within Savoy cinema buildings complex. Can't remember its name now🤔Occasionally fights broke out between Brits and locals at those places, specially after drinking spree and silly arguments among the drunks🥴then both Military Police and the local Bill will be there out in force sortng these troublemakers out🙃oh yeah, those were the days indeed😣
@@joshuaforster3097 YES
Good ol days
Yep that and Sam's Disco - OMG great days.
Never been at vacoas
It is worth the trip
You missed the most beautiful place in Vacoas, which is Glen-Park. Nice video though.
Thanks for the info!
how muc tea price
Mur20 for tea, all was Mur70
CARS FROM THE 1920s.
If only, that would be great
Well the cinema savoy is closed..
Sorry to hear that
Merci de montrer ma ville, j'habite dans le village de la caverne numéro 2 à vacoas. je suis actuellement absent du pays car je vit en France, mais j'ai passé 3 semaines de vaccances au mois de novembre dernier.
Hi, sorry we missed you, next time let me know and I will get us a translator so we can talk
I've lived at La Caverne, Vacoas for 16 odd years. There were three cinemas in Vacoas: Modern, Savoy and Metro. In the early 70's I used to go to the Metro cinema every Saturday at 1.30 pm and watch three movies for 1.50 rupees. In 1970 I engaged three rock bands and organized on a Monday night a concert at the Savoy cinema. It was a huge success although I made no money at all from it. Most of the tickets were in my possession and I was very late to get to the venue. A lot of people had gone back home thinking that the concert had been cancelled whilst the place was full of people inside with many standing up who had forced their way in without paying. Silly me for not wanting to spend 15 rupees on a cab, I was relying on a friend who was deeply engaged in playing Dominoes with his mates to drive me to the Savoy cinema. I learned a very sore lesson that day.
By the way in the late sixties the British troops that were stationed at "Les Casernes" Vacoas would have a drink at the Regent Hotel in the afternoon.
WOW, that is an epic story. Sometimes you have to spend the little bit extra, but those moments are so rare. Hope you enjoyed it, even though it reminded you that you could have been a rock star, agent,
@@BryanDiscoversWorld Later in life I learned that you have to spend money to make money.
Amazing to read I live at La caverne
@@gabbyboizvoice You're welcome. I visited Mauritius in 2005 and found La Caverne, Vacoas totally different from the way it was when I was living there. I hardly saw anyone in the streets while it used to buzz with people before. Houses had high fences so, I believe, you would not mind other people's business. I also saw many one storey houses. While there was hardly any traffic in the streets of La Caverne in my day now they were very busy with cars, trucks, buses and carts. Actually a truck about the same size as the street that runs passed the small cemetery before the bridge almost ran me over only for the fact that I thrusted myself deep into the Bamboo hedge. Have a nice Christmas.
@@davidfabien7220 Oh yes Mauritius is now busy and La Caverne/Vacoas for sure different now huge lorries traveling small corners and roads.Vacoas still a quiet zone but many houses and shops now. Good to see you document this. Love it cheers. Enjoy Christmas
Vous êtes rentré dans le magasin de ma belle soeur qui s'appelle la rose d'or et à côté un autre magasin qui s'appelle faschion reform .c'était les 2 premières minutes de votre video
I wish I had known, I would have shown more.
@@BryanDiscoversWorld thank you but neither you nor I knew in advance that you would go to my sister-in-law's store, it's a shame. next time if you don't mind.
MAYBE CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG CARS.
I wish
SORRY NOT MY CUP OF TEA.
we did have tea
@@BryanDiscoversWorld 😂😂
DON`T TELL ME, IT`S GOT OLD BUILDINS OLD PEOPLES, AND OLD CARS?
yip, not so many old cars
Made me realise even more how shitty vacoas is.
sorry to hear that
I HAVE NEVER BEING THERE AND I DON`T INTEND TO GO THERE I HEAR WEIRED STORIES ABOUT VACOAS BLACKMAGIC VOODOO OR A SPELL.
FROM where? Either you've been reading or listening to TOO MANY FAKE NEWS, old boy! Beware of such gossips bcoz these can give you all sorts of paranoia and turn you with a personality disorder, my friend😳
@@joshuaforster3097 You clearly haven't been to la caverne at night, mo casse coco lo to nom.