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The Mauritian rupee is the currency, cards work in far more places than they do elsewhere in the region, and cash still matters at the market and on the bus.

What to pack for a lagoon, a mountain and a temple in the same week, and why reef-safe sunscreen and a long skirt are both on the list.

Buses are cheap and slow, taxis are everywhere and negotiable, and the roads are narrower than the hire-car brochure suggests. Getting around Mauritius.

Mauritius is a low-crime destination with two real risks: opportunist theft where visitors gather, and cyclones between November and May.

Four cuisines arrived on one small island and did not stay separate. What to eat in Mauritius, from street samoussas to a Sunday biryani.

Markets, home kitchens, and what food explains about a place that a monument cannot.

A Hindu majority, a Creole heart, four working languages and a great deal of quiet politeness. How Mauritius holds itself, and how to fit in.

Four UNESCO-inscribed traditions and a public calendar that belongs to four religions at once. What Mauritius celebrates, and when it moves.

Two forced migrations built Mauritius and the island remembers them separately. Slavery, indenture, and where a returning descendant can begin.

Mauritius has better accessible infrastructure than most of the region and it is unevenly distributed. What to ask before you book, and what to expect.

A royal city, a burial ground and a set of sacred places on a hill north of Antananarivo, still visited by pilgrims after five hundred years.

Limestone needles, canyons and dry forest across western Madagascar, in a serial property that was renamed and greatly extended after inscription.

Six rainforest parks along the eastern escarpment, inscribed in 2007, on the Danger List for fifteen years and removed from it in 2025.

The upper town of Antananarivo, its royal palace and its nineteenth century streets, on the Tentative List since 2016 and not inscribed.

The rainforest most visitors to Madagascar actually see, three hours from the capital, and not one of the six components of the Atsinanana inscription.