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8TH Ed TRAVEL GUIDE LEGEND INDIAN Grand OCEAN Baie Île d’Ambre Area Maps PORT Motorway LOUIS National Road Main Road Trou d’Eau Douce Minor Road Scenic Route Curepipe Track Provincial Mahébourg Boundary MAURITIUS Chamouny Main Dam Baie du Chemin or Waterway Cap Grenier Souillac TRAVEL GUIDE GUIDE TRAVEL Citrons River Waterfall CONTENTS Reef Practical, informative and user-friendly, the 1. Introducing Mauritius Mountain Globetrotter Travel Guide to Mauritius VACOAS MTS The Land Highlands highlights the major places of interest, describing their History in Brief principal attractions and offering sound suggestions Government and Economy Piton Savanne Peak in The People 704 m metres on where to tour, stay, eat, shop and relax. 2. The North Cabinet Nature NR Reserve THE AUTHOR The Northwest Coast PORT Rivière du Rempart Coast City Martine Maurel is a Mauritius-born French graduate, The Northern Offshore Islands LOUIS who spent some years living in Malawi. She has St Felix Town & Village 3. The East Coast and Rodrigues written a number of travel articles and books Place of The Flacq Coast Art Gallery Interest which have been very well received, including Visitor’s Northern Grand Port Coast Airport Mahébourg and Environs Guide to Malawi and Visitor’s Guide to Zimbabwe. Rodrigues Town Plans She has since returned to her native Mauritius, 4. The South and Southwest from where she still writes. Royal Road Main Road Savanne Coastal Belt MAURITIUS Le Morne Peninsula La Paix Other Road MAURITIUS Plaine Champagne Built-up 5. The West Coast Area Petite and Grande Rivière Noire Line Building of Barracks Interest Vital tips for visitors Tamarin Bay to Flic en Flac Published and distributed by Distributed in Africa by Distributed in the USA by South of Port Louis Place of New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd Map Studio The Globe Pequot Press Worship Best places to stay, eat and shop 6. Port Louis and Surrounds London Johannesburg, Connecticut Hospital The Capital City ST Cape Town, Durban Domaine les Pailles H Hotel Star-rated top attractions GEORGES Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanic Garden Municipal Place of Theatre Interest I SBN 978-1-78009-435-9 Detailed regional profiles 7. The Central Plateau Tourist i Information Curepipe Essential area and transport maps The Small Plateau Towns Bus Terminus Colonial Houses Park & Best tours and excursions Lakes and Reservoirs Garden 9 781780 094359 NEW HOLLAND FREE MAP PDF FOR YOUR PHONE INSIDE COVER 2/7/13 9:02 AM Page 1 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K GRAND BAIE TITLES AVAILABLE Pellereau Mauritius Bombay Coin de Port Louis Trou Algarve Mallorca and Sicily Mire Fanfaron Amsterdam Menorca Singapore Merchant Navy Seeneevassen r Madras Club vie Andalucía Malta South Africa 0 300 m M2 Anquetil Syed Peer Jahal Shah a Athens Marrakech Sri Lanka Postal Museum ois X Australia Mauritius Stockholm and Cap Malheureux Immigration l ç Plaine Verte Gardens 0 300 yd a an Magon East Azores Mexico Sweden Square y Dr Sun Yat Sen r Dr E Péreybère Ro Baltic States Milan and the Sydney Grand St F dga N North Bus Jummah Pellereau r La Mosque Barbados Italian Lakes Tanzania Gaube Station uren Lo Barcelona Morocco Tel Aviv and Jerusalem ui Riv t Grand Baie Port Louis s iè Trou aux Pa re Berlin Mozambique Tenerife Waterfront st Biches Farquhar eu Bermuda Mumbai and Goa Thailand Île d'Ambre r C nt m M2 LABOURDONNAIS or Jummah Mosque e Harbour d ur la Botswana Namibia The Philippines A5 Goodlands Caudan WATERFRONT ern Entrance er a o Triolet H ie L Waterfront rd go La Paix Budapest and Naples and Sorrento Tokyo Central ua m A4 Rivière du Market do a Arsenal LE SUFFREN Namaste South Si E Hungary New York City Tunisia Rempart H D r Dr Poudre Star Cinema u W n r R Restaurant k ill e u Bulgaria New Zealand Turkey Pla e ia ue g Pamplemousses d’Or Caudan o m Q Q ce fE N sa California Paris Venice Casino u S d ew e o e . 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J re National Institute Costa del Sol Rome and the Vatican Zimbabwe Terre are P Fort Adélaïde Squ D Museum & Library ne oria um Air Mauritius hi (La Citadelle) e Costa Rica San Francisco Rouge ict a p oir PORT V s House & Tourist Municipal au D La Poste D Côte d’Azur Scotland LOUIS Office MTPA Chaussée I Theatre Nicolière lle nt and Provence Seychelles de fi en Port Bon Acceuil Company lle d H Flacq Chinese a Art a CITY Crete Louis A2 Gardens M n (AMBASSADOR) ener Casino Gallery ce Croatia Town Dr Eugène Laurent Pieter itch Mgr Gonnin Cuba Both Centre de Hall Lord K Inkerman Flacq St Louis Cyprus A3 Le Pouce 823 m Belle Barracks Cathedral Delhi, Jaipur 811 m Mare B59 Chevreau Maillard Supreme and Agra Beau Court J Church Dubai e L Bassin m t n M2 av r e m Brown Sequard e r Edith Cavell co ib ff Dublin a u u u A7 Quartier Trou d’Eau p e G S Rose A7 e r Jules Koenig Egypt Militaire Douce s Immaculée Conception Flacq Police Catholic Church New Stirling Florence and Hill Line eoffroy Headquarters St Louis House G Tuscany Bambous La Ferme Quatre Barracks Florida Réservoir Bornes Île aux B6 Moka Cerfs t le Gran Canaria Flic en Flac y St Georges is P L n ou B2 m a d Greek Islands ele H ST GEORGES riè Phoenix B27 ans th sm re rlé ar O Hong Kong O B Wolmar Grande Rivière re Champ de Lort Lam Soon A3 Mt du Vacoas Piton du è D’Estaing Ibiza and Rempart Sud-Est M Chinese Temple Milieu ne TRO la ell St James Formentera Curepipe ril w Champ de 545 m IS M B Po Cathedral Mars Corneille la Iceland AM n s Lapeyrousse io he Frère Felix de Valois Racecourse ELLES S La Gaieté n c Indonesia Tamarin BAM AIN U Ro re A10 BOUS MOUNT s iv Ireland Black De Po River Pla ines Israel Dr A Vishnu Kchetra Wilhems Anse Jonchée ug Istanbul Baie de la Vieux Grand us Tamarind te Grande Rivière Port V R Sookdeo Bissoondoyal Jamaica Mare aux ol ou Noire B Falls Res. cy g LA Grand P Dr Jeetoo et Japan C Vacoas o K Port ug King Edward VII Statue R Grand Port ne Jordan IV D t E P. de Valence ‘ is R Bay Ar a Kenya G Rose Dr O. Beaugard R to n O ao is n Île aux RG Belle u T o Kraków and Poland E l er B9 S Grand Ri n d Bénitiers M2 Mahebourg ve ay De Courcy r S t u Pandit Nehru e Kruger National Park Bassin e A10 o t S b u t l Lanzarote Ja a s Île aux Aigrettes m L in A10 e g Malartic Tomb Lebanon s Gayasingh Lisbon and Portugal Le Morne Plaisance Brabant A9 INDIAN London Blue Bay Bassin M Madagascar 556 m Savanne Duclos Blanc OCEAN onseigne Le Sidaner B8 im Madeira ol S S Chamouny t Malaysia Bancilhon Gravier D Le e Rivière des n ur Leen i Maldives Souffleur N s Baie du Cap Chemin Anguilles Grenier 0 5 10 km Enniskillen B9 V a Gandhi olc y P ou Mahatm 0 2.5 5 miles R gn Souillac iv et et Harris 1-Intro Mauritius 2/8/13 10:47 AM Page 4 1-Intro Mauritius 2/8/13 10:47 AM Page 5 1 Introducing Mauritius ike a rich green emerald, swathed in the translucent, Coin de Mire INDIAN Trou aux Grand Baie turquoise silk of the southwest Indian Ocean, Biches L OCEAN Poudre d’Or Mauritius is a small island which has only recently, since PORT LOUIS the early 1980s, made a sizeable impact on world tourism. Only 67km (42 miles) in length and 46km (29 Flic en Flac Curepipe 2 miles) at its widest point, and with an area of 1865km (720 sq miles), it is about the size of the English county of Chamouny Mahébourg Chemin Grenier Surrey, or South Africa’s Cape Peninsula and False Bay. Baie du Cap Souillac As a political entity, the Republic of Mauritius includes not only the island of Mauritius itself, set just north of the Tropic of Capricorn at 20˚S and 57.5˚E, but TOP ATTRACTIONS also the tiny island of Rodrigues some 563km (350 miles) Soaking up the sun on to the east, as well as the Cargados Carajos Archipelago a white, sandy beach. (St Brandon) and the two virtually uninhabited Agalega Water sports of every kind – islands, 400km (250 miles) to the northeast and 1000km snorkelling, diving, sailing, windsurfing and parasailing. (620 miles) to the north of Mauritius respectively. Big-game fishing in first-rate The warm climate and the blue-green sea gently fishing waters. lapping the sandy shores within the protective belt of Scuba diving amid coral the coral reef make for a tropical paradise with equally gardens and tropical fish.