Plan a trip to Mauritius

Places to see in Mauritius

12 of the 20 places VoyaKin maps here. Descriptions from Wikipedia and photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

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  Le Morne BrabantUNESCO

  Le Morne Cultural Landscape

  Mountain · Rivière Noire District

  Le Morne Brabant is a peninsula at the extreme southwestern tip of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. On it is a basaltic monolith of the same name 556 metres high. Its summit covers an area of over 12 hectares. There are many caves and overhangs on the steep slopes.

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  Aapravasi GhatUNESCO

  Park & nature · Port Louis District

  Aapravasi Ghat is a building complex located in Port Louis, Mauritius, the first British colony to receive indentured, or contracted, labour workforce from many countries.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Suyash Dwivedi (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map

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  Port Louis

  City · Port Louis

  Port Louis is the capital and most populous city of Mauritius, mainly located in the Port Louis District, with a small western part in the Black River District. Port Louis is the country's financial and political centre. It is administered by the Municipal City Council of Port Louis.

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  Mahébourg

  Town · Grand Port District

  Mahébourg is a small village on the south-eastern coast of the island of Mauritius, having a population of 15,457 as of 2015. It is considered the main town of the Grand Port District.

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  Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire

  Mountain · Rivière Noire District

  Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire is the highest mountain on the island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. Located in the Rivière Noire District and rising to a height of 828 m (2,717 ft) above sea level, it forms part of the Black River mountain range.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Yann Crettaz (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Mauritius Island

  Ile Maurice

  Island · Moka

  Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, located about 1,100 nautical miles off the southeastern coast of Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island, as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga, and St. Brandon.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Kikibelux (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Trou aux Cerfs

  Mountain · Curepipe

  Trou aux Cerfs is a dormant, crater lake, cinder cone volcano with a well-defined cone and crater. It is 605 m (1,985 ft) high and located in Curepipe, Mauritius. The crater has been alternately described as 300 and 350 meters in diameter, and is 80 meters deep.

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  Black River Gorges National Park

  Parc national des gorges de Rivière Noire

  Park & nature · Black River

  Black River Gorges National Park is a national park in the hilly south-western part of Mauritius. It was proclaimed on June 15, 1994 and is managed by the National Parks and Conservation Service. It covers an area of 67.54 km2 including humid upland forest, drier lowland forest and marshy heathland.

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  Seven Coloured Earths

  7 Coloured Earth - Chamarel

  Landmark · Rivière Noire District

  The Seven Coloured Earths are a geological formation and prominent tourist attraction found in the Chamarel plain of the Rivière Noire District in south-western Mauritius. It is a relatively small area of sand dunes comprising sand of seven distinct colours.

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  Île Ronde

  Island · Rivière du Rempart District

  Round Island is an uninhabited islet 22.5 kilometres north of Mauritius. It has an area of 1.69 square kilometres and a maximum elevation of 280 metres.

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  Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden

  Garden · Pamplemousses District

  The Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanic Garden, commonly known as the Pamplemousses Botanic Garden, is a popular tourist attraction in Pamplemousses, near Port Louis, Mauritius, and the oldest botanical garden in the Southern Hemisphere.

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  Pieter Both

  Mountain · Pamplemousses

  Pieter Both, sometimes referred to as Peter Botte Mountain, is the second highest mountain of Mauritius, at 820 metres (2,690 ft) tall. The mountain is slightly shorter than Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire by eight metres.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Avinash Meetoo from Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius (CC BY-SA 2.0). Map