Country Info
- Port Louis
- Capital
- Mauritius Rupee (MUR)
- Currency
- 1,189,825
- Population
- MU
- Country Code
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Mauritius
Travel Blogs from Mauritius
Mauritius in a day!
... call it quits on the city tour by this time, and we caught a cab to a beach called Perebere (the official language of Mauritius is english, but everyone speaks french as it was colonized by the French as recently as the 1960s). It was really gorgeous! ...
Some Rest
Things went smoothly this morning, though I was and am still tired. I was up and had my notes polished and printed by 8:30, and breakfast and other morning rituals done by 9:30 when I started south. It was raining lightly again as it often does here, but ...
Getting a feel for the island...
... roads between the two comparisons are in about the same condition) Hurricane Gelane was supposed to be the biggest storm system to hit Mauritius in 9 years! On the day I arrived, they place did seem like a ghost town, shops had closed early, the port had ...
Le Maniglier
Shortly before our departure from Mauritius, we went to an art gallery and restaurant named Le Maniglier in Trou d'Eau Douce. It is located on the grounds of a an old Sugar mill, with the old stone mill now converted in a gallery and restaurant. ...
The rest of last week's activities
... an early meeting in town at the standard bank offices and then headed straight to the beach house to watch the sharks game (Mauritius is 2 hours ahead) with Kobous and left a few minutes before full time to go to Club Med resort at mon choisex ...
Another beach day
I did my travel agent thing today and found a really nice resort to "inspect". Just had lunch and sat on the beach. The water was beautiful and the sand was sparkling white. Now.......8 wonderful days at ...
Relaxing in the rain
After an overnight stop in Johannesburg we arrived in Mauritius which was to be our nice relaxing sunny end to our trip. However, we arrived in the tail end of a big storm so it was cold and raining and it wasn't forecast to get any better for a few ...
Skirting the edges of a cyclone
... . He informed us that he had taken on a lot of extra fuel, so that we'd have enough "for several landing attempts" in Mauritius. That didn't sound very reassuring. Then after encouraging us to "sit back and relax" as they always seem to do, he finished by ...
Sabbath in Mauritius
... Mauritius has Indian origins), so I had the treat of curry for breakfast. I eat Indian food as often as I can in Mauritius: it's delicious, authentic and inexpensive. I waited on the street by my car for Suren to arrive and then followed ...
Mauritus
... 27 we arrived in Port Louis, Mauritius. Many Americans have not heard of Mauritius, and before this trip I hadn't heard of it either. Mauritius is a tropical island located off of the east coast of Madagascar. It is not a big island, and it is a place ...
z french
... ¡K in HOW I lost face in vse ¡K Priletela na Mauritius in moj dan je zgledal priblizno takole: Sreda; Pridem na Mauritius ¡K Pridem iz avion in immigration control mi rece: Where is your return ticket? Js pobuljim in recem ¡K well, it¡¦s ...
The west coast
We recently did a road trip down the West coast to Tamarin, La Preneuse and Albion. Those areas are quite picturesque and not as touristic as the north coast. Check out the ...
Islamis Sects, Buoys, and Church
Today was another A day of classes. In Global Studies we had a political science professor from India speak. She spoke about the history of India. It was really interesting but kind of hard to follow due to her accent. Afterwards ...
Snorkeling in Mauritius
... that were awaiting us. I got on the Orange Catamaran along with Rachel (my roommate), Ji, Ashley, and Stef. Mauritius is a volcanic island that is covered with green mountains, white beaches, and light blue water. It is really beautiful ...
Transit through Mauritius
... and wanted a disembarkation card filled out. I had purchased an Air France ticket, but it was actually a code share with an Air Mauritius flight. It was scheduled to leave at 11:30 pm. But there were more delays both before boarding an even once we were ...
1 day till we are all forever changed
Today is our last day before India and I am very happy that I will be setting foot on land in less than a day. I was finished with class by noon and afterwards watched some TV in the room before grabbing lunch with Audrey, Brianna, and ...
Mauritius: Some call it de Gangster of Love
... on a car. That turned out to be a good idea, because we had several short rains about every day while on Mauritius, the weather constantly changed. Renting a car also was an experience. Mahebourg didn’t have the typical car rental companies, so we ...
Cut off their hands
Today I had a midterm in my energy and the environment class. It was hard and nobody in the class finished within the time limit. I bet there is going to be a curve on it. To start the morning I went to global studies and heard my Islam ...
Reunion to Mauritius
... get some work done. The sun set right at 6:00 pm. At 7:00 I was provided a dinner in the cafeteria complements of Air Mauritius: raw vegetable salad, cod and lentil stew on rice with cauliflower and a glass of rosé wine. Then back to waiting, reading, ...
Mauritius
... of serenity and tranquility. Considered to be a gem of the Indian Ocean, it boosts some of the world's most beautiful scenery. Mauritius, though similar to an island found in the Caribbean is far more exotic in terms of culture and environment. A nation ...
Marine Park!
The morning wasn't the easiest with the lack of sleep and feeling the effects of the punch! Everyone managed to drag themselves out of bed and get ready though and transfer the mess from outside to in to be cleared up later! We headed out to ...
Lazy Wednesday!
Wednesday is sadly the last day of Anna being here which is a bummer as she was part of the furniture! The day started with a trip to the hospital. Today was ward round as i had been told it would be everyday! The doctor was as ever ...
Scuba Steve!
First of all the number of visits to my blog had gone over 500 which shows its actualy worthwhile writing it! In to the hospital this morning, friday being theatre day. We saw a few different things that we hadn't seen before. First up ...
Day 2 at Hospital..........
Day 2 at the hospital turned out to be more eventful! First of all we turned up to sign in and met the other elective student that was at the hospital, an Australian girl from Brisbane who seemed pretty friendly so we organised to give her a lift ...
Lundi again!
Tim was diving today so just me to the hospital! On the way saw another example of crazy Mauritian driving, somone couldn't even be bothered to take it round the roundabout so dumped it right in the middle - nice one. Anyways when we got ...
Day 2...
Day 2 started off with a bit of a lay in to aclimatise, with a quick thunderstorm and a bit of rain which didnt last for long! We then thought it would be agood idea to double check we knew the way to the hospital so took a trip out that way and ...
Arrival
... at immigration! Mario and Annie proceeded to ensure we had made the most of the duty free on offer before driving us out into Mauritius and tealling us everything we would need to know! We stopped off at their house for some tea, toast and cheese ...
The south and anniversary!
In the morning we got up ready to go to Ile aux cerfs but we got a phone call from Steve saying the waves were 2.5m high and the boats couldn't get out! So it was a quick think and we changed our plans for later in the week and decided to go ...