Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Mauritius
Mauritius is warm all year, so the question is not temperature. It is cyclones, humidity and the difference between the coast and the plateau.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Mauritius: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Pamplemousses Botanical Garden: Visitor and Heritage Guide
One of the oldest botanical gardens in the southern hemisphere, and the clearest surviving record of the plant economy that indenture was imported to serve.
Heritage
Ganga Talao: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A crater lake in the Mauritian highlands, the most important Hindu site on the island and the focus of the largest Hindu pilgrimage outside India.
Heritage
Black River Gorges National Park: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The last of the native forest of Mauritius, on 3.5 per cent of the island, holding species that exist nowhere else. On the Tentative List, not inscribed.
Heritage
Le Morne Cultural Landscape: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The basalt mountain at the southwest corner where escaped slaves sheltered, inscribed for what is remembered about it rather than for what is built on it.
Heritage
Aapravasi Ghat: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Sixteen hundred square meters of stone steps in Port Louis, where a system that moved half a million people and reshaped the labor of empires began.
Destination
Mauritius
Le Morne, where escaped slaves sheltered, and Aapravasi Ghat, where indenture began: an island carrying far more history than beach.