Mauritius Travel Guide 2026: Le Morne Brabant, Flic en Flac, Port Louis, Grand Bassin, Île aux Cerfs and Rodrigues Complete Itinerary
Browse more guides: Mauritius travel | Africa destinations Mauritius Travel Guide 2026: Le Morne Brabant, Flic en Flac, Port Louis, Grand Bassin, Île aux Cerfs and Rodrigues Complete Itinerary TL;DR Mauritius surprised me on a quiet Tuesday morning when I climbed onto the catamaran at Trou d'Eau Douce and watched the water shift from green to a pale, almost glassy turquoise as we approached Île aux Cerfs. I had read for years that this small Indian Ocean republic was a honeymoon island, but what I actually found was a layered country with a UNESCO maroon-refuge mountain on the south-west coast, a Hindu sacred crater lake at 1,800 metres, a sugar-cane capital named Port Louis with a horse-racing track from 1812, a national park full of endemic birds, and a smaller sister island called Rodrigues 600 kilometres further east. Mauritius sits 2,000 kilometres east of Madagascar and roughly 855 kilometres east of the African coast, and despite being a small dot on the map of the Indi...