Last week, we were in Mali.
This week, we are going to Réunion, a french island in the Indian Ocean. Neighbors are Madagascar and Mauritius.
Above map courtesy of wikipedia.

Reunion
Capital: Saint-Denis
Official Language: French
Other languages spoken: Réunion Creole, Mandarin, Hakka, Cantonese, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Arabic.
Continent: NA (The closest continent is Africa)
Currency: Euro
(as of 10/25/2014)

Reunion Island
According to worldatlas.com,
Aside from the export industry and tourism, the music scene in Reunion seem to be thriving.

Cilaos is a town and commune on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
According to the Reunion Island Official Tourism site,
Reunion music is based on two original styles, with deep roots: maloya and Sega. Maloya looks like a ternary blues.
Music of Afro-Malagasy slaves, it has long perpetuated in secret. Today, this music is appropriated and enriched by everyone and it is sometimes married with other rhythms: rock, reggae. It can be assimilated to the moring, traditional battle dance that came out of the shadow. More European by its rhythms and instruments, the Sega is the dance of all the festivities.
Reunion Island counts nowadays hundreds of bands and a large discography. The notoriety of some artists has even transcended the boundaries of the island: Danyel Waro, Davy Sicard, Salem Tradition, Granmoun Lele, Meddy Gerville Ziskakan, Baster, René Lacaille, Nathalie Natiembé, Zong, Pat’Jaune.
What about food? What do people in Reunion eat?
According to reunionisland.fr
As much as I love a good meal, I am not adventurous enough to eat carri tangue yet. Or ever. But I am down for some good vin and some “dodo”. 🙂
Reunion sounds like an amazing place to visit. Although this may not be much of a secret for Europeans, I don’t think the rest of the world know much of this beautiful island. I love that this is not really a secret, but it is a secret type of place. I would love to visit Reunion one of these days.

Saint Pierre, Reunion
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