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Insight Pocket Guides: ideal itineraries and top travel tips in a pocket-sized package.
Plan your trip, plan perfect days and discover how to get around - this pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do and see in Mauritius, from top attractions like Belle Mare Beach, to hidden gems, including Chamarel Waterfalls.
· Compact, concise, and packed with essential information about Where to Go and What to Do, this is an ideal on-the-move companion when you're exploring Mauritius
· Covers Top Ten Attractions, including Kestrel Valley and Eureka Mansion and Perfect Day itinerary suggestions
· Offers an insightful overview of landscape, history and culture
· Contains an invaluable pull-out map, and essential practical information on everything from Eating Out to Getting Around
· Inspirational colour photography throughout
· Sharp design and colour-coded sections make for an engaging reading experience
About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps, as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.
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How To Use This E-Book
Getting Around the e-Book
This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Mauritius, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.
The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Mauritius, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.
In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.
Maps
All key attractions and sights in Mauritius are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.
Images
You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Mauritius. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.
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Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.
Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.
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Table of Contents
Mauritius’s Top 10 Attractions
Top Attraction #1
Top Attraction #2
Top Attraction #3
Top Attraction #4
Top Attraction #5
Top Attraction #6
Top Attraction #7
Top Attraction #8
Top Attraction #9
Top Attraction #10
A Perfect Day In Mauritius
Introduction
The people
Flora and fauna
Sugar, tourism and beyond
A Brief History
Early settlers
Arrival of the Dutch
French colonisation
British colonisation
Independence
Modern Mauritius
Historical landmarks
Where To Go
Port Louis
The waterfront
Old Port Louis
Outside Port Louis
The north
North from Port Louis
Grand Baie
North from Grand Baie
Northern offshore islands
Pamplemousses and the Sugar Museum
The east
Belle Mare to Île aux Cerfs
Mahébourg to Blue Bay
The south
Black River Gorges National Park
Bel Ombre to Souillac
The west
South from Port Louis
Tamarin
The plateau towns
Rose Hill–Beau Bassin
Quatre Bornes
Vacoas–Phoenix
Curepipe
Rodrigues
Port Mathurin
Around Port Mathurin
Inland from Port Mathurin
The south
The east
What To Do
Sports
Water activities
Land-based activities
Other activities
Nightlife and entertainment
Shopping
Children’s Mauritius
Calendar of events
Eating Out
What to eat
Indian
Chinese
Creole
Desserts
Rodriguan specialities
Where to eat
Drinks
Reading the Menu
To help you order...
Menu reader
Restaurants
Port Louis
The north
The east
The south
The west
Plateau towns
Rodrigues
A–Z Travel Tips
A
Accommodation
Airport (see also Getting there)
B
Bicycle hire
Budgeting for your trip
C
Car hire (see also Driving)
Climate
Clothing
Crime and safety
D
Disabled travellers
Driving
E
Electricity
Embassies and consulates
Emergencies (see also Medical care and Police)
G
Getting there (see also Airport)
Guides and tours
H
Health and medical care
L
Language
LGBTQ travellers
M
Maps
Media
Money
O
Opening times
P
Police
Post offices
Public holidays
R
Religion
T
Telephones
Time zones
Tipping
Toilets
Tourist information
Transport
V
Visas and entry requirements
W
Websites and internet cafés
Weights and measures
Recommended Hotels
Port Louis
The north
The east
The south
The west
Plateau towns
Rodrigues
Mauritius’s Top 10 Attractions
Top Attraction #1
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L’Aventure du Sucre Museum
Get a taste of the island’s sugar-producing heritage at this fascinating museum. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #2
Fotoseeker
Belle Mare beach
The stuff of daydreams: white sand, palm trees and warm, turquoise waters. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #3
Corbis
Kestrel Valley
Its forests and trails beckon nature-lovers. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #4
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Black River Gorges National Park
Dramatic mountain vistas unfold. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #5
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Le Gris Gris
Huge waves crash against a wild coast. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #6
MTPA
Chamarel Waterfalls
This dramatic cataract tumbles from the mountains. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #7
Shutterstock
François Leguat Giant Tortoise and Cave Reserve
See endemic plants and a colony of giant tortoises in Rodrigues. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #8
MTPA
Île aux Cerfs
Clear waters off this tiny island make for great snorkelling. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #9
MTPA
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanic Gardens
An impressive showcase for tropical plants. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #10
MTPA
Eureka Mansion
A handsome colonial gem in a tropical garden setting. For more information, click here.
A Perfect Day In Mauritius
9.00am
Breakfast
Get off to a good start, away from the hustle and bustle of town, with a full English breakfast at Lambic on St Georges Street. If it’s nice weather you can sit outside under the shade of the mango trees and sip your coffee.
10.00am
Green spaces
Walk breakfast off with a stroll through Company Gardens, see the Royal Palms in Place d’Armes leading up to Government House or people-watch in Bowen Square.
12.00pm
Colonial chic
Take in the colonial architecture nearby, the Treasury Buildings and Municipal Theatre, before a light lunch of Lebanese appetizers at Le Sultan.
2.00pm
Retail therapy
Make your way to Farquhar Street and test your haggling skills with pavement vendors before browsing for souvenirs in the Central Market. For fixed-price shopping take the underpass to the Caudan Waterfront and hit the Craft Market and scores of speciality shops.
4.00pm
Stamp duty
Check out the Blue Penny Museum nearby for famous portraits, fine art and philately. Cool off with a long drink on the terrace of the Labourdonnais Hotel or head to the Food Court for fast food options.
5.30pm
Sundowner
Take a free water taxi from the jetty car park across Bassin des Chaloupes to the trendy Spinnaker’s Bar at Le Suffren Hotel, order a Green Island rum cocktail and catch a magnificent sunset from the terrace.
6.30pm
Dinner
Visit Le Courtyard, an elegant restaurant at the corner of St Louis and Chevreau Streets (for more information, click here), with a shady terrace and a location in the heart of this bustling city. Taste wonderful dishes bursting with the flavours of France and Mauritius.
8.30pm
Bollywood versus Hollywood
Catch the latest English-subtitled Bollywood movies at the Cinema Klassic (tel: 230 213 4831) or settle for a French-dubbed Hollywood blockbuster at The Star Cinema Complex (tel: 230 211 6866) in the Caudan.
10.00pm
On the town
Try your luck on blackjack, roulette and poker tables at the Casino or prop up the bar until the last punter leaves. Otherwise plenty of taxis are on hand to take you north to the clubs and bars at Grand Baie. Best of the bunch is Banana Beach Club (tel: 230 263 0326), a trusted hangout for live music by local jazz, rock and blues artistes.
Introduction
Mauritius has long entranced its visitors. Charles Baudelaire called it ‘the perfumed land, fondled by the sun’, while Mark Twain noted simply that ‘heaven was copied after Mauritius’. The stunning white, sandy beaches lapped by aquamarine seas earn every superlative, and thousands of modern visitors to Mauritius agree that this tiny dot in the Indian Ocean is the stuff of desert-island dreams. With much of its coastline fringed by coral reef, a landscape set off by diminutive mountains, temperatures rarely falling below 20°C (68°F) and some of the world’s finest hotels, Mauritius is a perfect year-round holiday destination.
But there is more to Mauritius than the exclusive beachside hotels that have come to be the regular haunt of celebrities and big-spenders. Stray inland and you will discover mountains, forests, rivers and waterfalls, fields undulating with sugar cane, extinct volcanic craters, tumbledown towns and villages, and hospitable