The museum's name is no mistake, and it does indeed have on display some exceptional old stamps (including the famous 1847 Post Office ). We can’t recommend highly enough a visit to the Blue Penny Museum for its wonderful collections illustrating th..

Built north of Chinatown in the mid-19C, Jummah Mosque is endowed with a fine sculpted wooden doorway. The Muslim community on Mauritius is mainly composed of Sunnis.

The Chinese began coming to Mauritius in the 19C, bringing their dynamism and spirit of enterprise. In Port Louis a great “gate” marks the entrance to Chinatown, east of the central market. Behind it, the tightly packed, colourful stalls of the vario..

This is the place where you can feel the pulse of Port Louis. This large covered market, on the north side of the Place d’Armes near Chinatown, is bursting with spices, meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and healing herb teas, as well as items made for t..

On this square facing the harbour, a long alleyway lined with royal palms connects the statue of Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699-1753), named governor of the island in 1735, and the typically colonial Government House (1738). Here on the Place d’Armes, ..

The dodo, symbol of Mauritius, was a sort of large pigeon that couldn’t fly due to atrophied wings and went extinct by the 17C. You can see a reconstruction of one here, perhaps justifying a visit to the Natural History Museum, although its collectio..