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Doniambo (the nickel factory) Ducos, Rivière salée (Salty River), Dumbéa, Normandy : these names do not make dreaming and they are not touristic area, unless one needs some essential goods and go to the hypermarket (supermarché or grande surface in french). One can also get lost not very far from the prestigious golf course and wander about in an HLM district.

From the downtown, two roads lead towards north, the territorial road 1, "Vallée du tir " (shooting valley) and the territorial road 13, "Vallée des Colons" (Valley of the Colonists). They meet by circumventing the Montravel Mount, whose name stems from Tardy de Montravel.

At the Montravel Mount is arranged the botanical garden and zoological of Nouméa: it is accessible by the RT1, or better by taking a road which climbs completely at the bas and on the left hands of the "place des cocotiers" (coconuts squarequare of the centre town (follow the sign "FOL", then Montravel).

The small tourist train serves the garden too.

Dumbea river and the natural swimming pool.
Heading to North, via the airport of Tontouta, one can head the old and picturesque road RT1 until Païta. One passes then by Dumbéa and its river.

There is a little chapel to be seen, where the Oceania mess has been celebrated on may 11, 2003.
A stop to the "hole of the children's nurses", natural pot of deep water, will refresh you in all meanings of the term. Riding again the road of Tontouta, you will see an enormous Banian.

   rainforest in Dumbéa. Dumbea was linked in the past to Nouméa by a train. The rail still exist I suppose;

It's not good looking but these trade offer sometimes good dishes to go and Calédoniens come there. 

 

Squat in an old and modest colonial house.

road of the "vallée du Tir" (RT1). Buildings are "occupied", like this one, in angle


The partly rehabilitated North-East : where marshes and mangroves reigned, the Tjibaou Center dominates the landscape of its architecture, in the vicinity of the international golf and the HLM (low rate dwelling).

The district of Magenta.

Right hand, the  local airport of Magenta, and further left hand, the Centre of Tjibaou and the golf. 

Background, the mount Dore.

  

The kanak path : is worth more than the Center itself, where one always finishes in the shop. Plants, culture, ritual, legends are everywhere.

image complète au clic

Inspired from kanak culture, an impression of rise comes from this architecture, shown in the booklets of the whole world. In bas, reconstituted huts and boat.

A great work designed by Renzo Piano, one of the most talentuous architect of this century, under the reign of a french Head of State.

Essence to be seen is outside, but the media library and the exhibitions can interest too. The construction and technique of temperature control also.

An hypermarket, in northern Nouméa (Dumbéa). It could be in France, put aside the odd vegetables and... prices

... and these rows of cooled drink which are a speciality of the country. There are smaller everywhere, road of the Anse Vata for example, or small Chinese groceries. Another characteristic, one sells ice crushed in small pockets in some stores or distributor.

  

The North-western part, North-center and to a lesser extent the North-eastern part are reserved for the industrial, commercial parks and modest dwellings.

The mountain is the ground of these HLM; the sight and the environment are not so unpleasant, compared to those in metropolis. But misery is felt there in the same way, although the tribes are very often reconstituted there.



Squats. Squats. It is not always simple buildings invested by some unhappy unsupported, new fallen without tribe, nor civil society), but areas of virgin nature organized in real tribe, with a leader.



There was the squat Veyret housing estate, in the city, rehabilitated by a real estate program. The last (?) Would be that of the Magenta Valley, Sakamoto, with the tribal rules and the respect of a Chief. Creek Nakoué. Since 2009, an eco-district of 700 dwellings is programmed by the municipality to reduce this last pocket (picture). Ecoquartier, for quality of life, energy saving, social relations. A dealer is funding this project, which will not cost the municipality anything. What are the commitments: relocation, work? will they be kept. Only the leader of the community seems satisfied TV FranceO 2012.
Creek Nakoue will may be more than just a pretty name, but it's not their way of life. Besides, for some like ours, they do not have such a natural living enjoyment. A human tragedy that our rich societies do not know how to regulate, because it's disturbig; it's well known, misery and sickness make us flee. We think we can push them away, eliminate them, but their number increases in parallel with the enrichment of others. The spaces are missing ? not for the good cause; "accredited travelers", golf courses, giant shops, campsites, various municipal entertainment complexes ... find their place. The excluded are problematic? We aren't turning away from others who, by our laws, should also be (excluded)

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