Within its 720 square miles there are more than 1,000 miles of good roads lined with bougainvillea and flame trees, violet moonscaped mountains, deep craters, wild waterfalls, rainbows and shooting stars, villages hidden in lush coastal vegetation, plateau towns with charming old colonial houses, flowers and trees growing out of the red earth in a riot of colour and everywhere the green and golden mantle of sugar cane.
Why is it so hard to find on the world map...?
Champ de Mars, originally laid out by the French for military parades, is now a racecourse.
Mahebourg :As one on the main fishing centres, it lies in the bay of Grand Port and has a Naval Museum, housed in the French colonial mansion where in 1810 the English and French commanders, both wounded in battle, were brought to be given medical aid.
Pamplemousses Gardens : The gardens are known to naturalists throughout the world for their large collection of indigenous and exotic plants, including the giant Victoria Regia water lilies and many species of palm trees. Of particular interest is the Talipot palm, which is said to flower once every sixty years and dies thereafter.
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This page last updated on 12 January, 1996