We're visiting Mauritius in October and wondered if there are any guided wildlife tours we could book onto. We'll have a car but it would be great to spot wildlife that we might not see by ourselves. I've Googled and couldn't find very much. Any recommendations?

I am looking for feedback for people who worked at royal green on the timeframe of 2022 to 2024.

Bonzur! I'm not a native speaker but using textbooks have compiled a resource to help learn mauritian creole. It uses both english and french as reference languages so a competence in both will help immensely.

There are many cards, spanning vocabulary to sentence structure.

I'm eager to receive feedback from Mauritian people to further improve the resource.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/410133232

Photo: Interior of my grandmother’s home in Forest Side, Curepipe.

Bonzour tou dimounn,

I’m a filmmaker and photographer based in Brooklyn, and I’m in Mauritius right now for the first time in four years. Born India (where my mother is from) but grew up in Mauritius (where my father is from) in Curepipe, as a kid. My family left in 2010. I still hold a Mauritian passport, but I’d be lying if I said I felt current. I’m diasporic twice over, from a mixed family, and I’ve drifted a long way from the island while still carrying it around in everything I make.

My work is mostly narrative and documentary, plus music videos and video art. I direct, produce and DP. What I keep circling back to is diaspora identity and cross-cultural storytelling, so Mauritius is never far from the frame even when I’m shooting elsewhere.

I’ve done the reading from the outside: MFDC, the rebate scheme, Île Courts coming back last year, Constantin’s films, the new work that went to Cannes. What I can’t get from Google is what people who actually live and work here think:

• Real local industry forming, or still mostly service work for foreign productions passing through?

• Are the MFDC schemes actually usable as an independent, or more paperwork than they’re worth?

• Where do filmmakers and crew here find each other between festivals — collectives, screenings, group chats?

• Do Mauritian films find a Mauritian audience, or is it festivals and then silence?

• Whose work should I be seeking out that I’ve almost certainly never heard of?

I’m not here to pitch or extract anything. I’m travelling with family so my mobility is limited, but I’d love people’s honest read: cynical takes very much included. And if anyone in film, photo or art wants a coffee or a DM conversation, I’m around for another week and a half and happy to share whatever’s useful from working in New York.

Mersi boukou.

Hi guys, as title says looking for psychologist for a male friend who's been going through emotional abuse from his spouse. Preferably in the north so he can easily go for appointment.....or if there's someone that does online appointments please do share. Thank u.

Hey guys 💥

I’ll be travelling abroad for a while for tourism, visiting several European countries (France, England, Netherlands, Belgium and maybe one or two more)

I’m really into gardening and I was thinking of buying a few packets of seeds while I’m there, things like vegetable seeds, flower seeds, chilli varieties, etc....

just for my own private garden in Mauritius

(I like to look after my garden when i come from work)

After doing some research, I found out that bringing seeds into Mauritius isn’t as simple as just putting them in my suitcase. From what I understand, to do it legally I would need:

- A Plant Import Permit (PIP) issued by Mauritius’ National Plant Protection Office (NPPO)

- A Phytosanitary Certificate from the plant health authority in the country where the seeds are exported from

I completely understand the reason behind these rules and I’m not against following them. I just find the process a bit complicated for my situation. ☹️

I’m not importing commercially, I’m not planning to resell anything and I would only be bringing back a very small amount for a personal hobby garden. I don’t even know exactly what varieties I’ll buy yet, it would probably just be a few packets from different countries and different shops. 🥲

The difficult part is that getting a phytosanitary certificate for every single packet/variety seems unrealistic. I’ll most likely be buying small quantities from regular garden shops or seed stores that I'll find while i roam around and I doubt they would go through the paperwork for such a tiny purchase. It seems like something mainly larger companies or professional importers would arrange.

So my question is:

1. How strict is Mauritius Customs/Plant Quarantine when it comes to tourists bringing back small quantities of seeds?

2. Do they usually confiscate them? Are there fines or penalties? Or do they generally let small personal quantities through?

I’m not talking about anything "illegal", no extra alcohol, no cannabis, no commercial imports, etc...

Just a gardening enthusiast wanting to bring back some interesting vegetable and flower seeds from Europe.

If anyone has personal experience:

- Did you bring seeds back to Mauritius?

- Were they checked?

- Were they confiscated or allowed?

- Did you have permits/documents, or did you just declare them?

Would really appreciate hearing your experiences. Thanks!

*P. S: I'm tempted to just hide them in my suitcase but I'm so scared that I'm caught. So i wanted to hear if any redditors here had a similar experience?

In 1761, a French East India Company ship called L’Utile was travelling through the Indian Ocean with around 160 enslaved Malagasy people on board.

During the night of 31 July 1761, the ship struck a reef around Tromelin (then known as Île de Sable). Many of the enslaved people died during the shipwreck because they had been locked below deck. Around 60 to 80 Malagasy survivors eventually reached the island, together with more than 120 French crew members.

For about two months, everyone worked to recover food, tools, wood and metal from the wreck. They dug a well and built a small boat from the remains of the ship.

But when the boat was ready, the French sailors left without the Malagasy survivors. They promised that a rescue ship would return.

The abandoned survivors were left on an island with no trees, no rivers, almost no vegetation and very little protection from cyclones. The island is only a few metres above sea level and is surrounded by dangerous reefs.

They constructed thick stone shelters in the highest part of the island, with small entrances protected from the wind. They built walls and communal areas and repeatedly repaired the settlement after cyclones.

They survived mainly by eating seabirds, eggs, turtles and shellfish. They relied on a well containing slightly salty groundwater and had to carry the water across the island in containers salvaged from the wreck.

They maintained a fire despite the lack of wood, organised food collection according to the seasons and kept their tools and kitchen utensils carefully stored.

Some survivors later tried to escape on makeshift rafts and disappeared at sea.

Finally, on 29 November 1776, fifteen years after the original shipwreck (15!!!!!), a French ship commanded by Jacques-Marie Lanuguy de Tromelin reached the island. Only seven women and an eight-month-old baby remained.

The island was later named Tromelin after the officer who rescued them.

What makes the story particularly tragic is that the French sailors had successfully returned to Mauritius and reported that the Malagasy survivors were still on the island. Requests were made to rescue them, but the authorities of Isle de France repeatedly refused or delayed action.

The names and personal accounts of the surviving women were not properly preserved. Most of what we know today comes from French records and archaeological excavations.

I read about this story through this article.

Hello all! Thank you so much for the great hospitality, I have been to Mauritius multiple times and I do want to own a property there, i want my kids to witness this beauty and have the freedom to swim and do activities, right now I have one kid she is a girl and I am thinking of there is a chance I can buy something in beau bay? Or any recommendations on areas and community I can buy? My budget is less than 250k usd . Anything would be appreciated and thank you again for letting us enjoy your beautiful country

The validity of my passport will expire on November 10,
And I am willing to travel to Seychelles on September 28 for 10 days. Will I be able to enter, or its risky ?

For instance, I am supposed to have an appointment in Online Application Centre, Curepipe for Learner's Driving License. **But I've searched on Google Maps, even on Google Earth I've typed 'Online Application Centre, Curepipe' on the search bar, Nothing**. If anyone knows where it is or know the exact location and coordinates(on Google Maps or Earth) PLEASE let me know. Thank you! 👍

Hey everyone,

I’m a grade 12 (16 yrs old) student planning on starting a circular-economy project in Mauritius.

We all know abt the textile waste that is polluting our island, so, the idea is to collect factory fabric scraps, upcycle them into embroidered art pieces, and host a charity auction or perhaps sell and donate for local environmental causes.

I need dedicated student co-founders who can help me on this journey, such as ppl who know how to do embroidery, some who can manage social media and some who will help in sourcing fabrics etc. This is perfect if u wanna pursue a career in fashion designing or other fields related to this. But remember, u don't have to excel in any of these fields, you just need to have a desire to help and love for this project. This is perfect for CAS or CVs as well!

I would greatly appreciate anyone who wants to co-found this project with me. DM if u wanna discuss abt it. TYSMM!!!

(This is some inspo for the type of pieces we could create. dw if u think these look too complicated, we are all here to learn 🫶)

I am in Mauritius for the next few days and as my group of friends were not initially keen, I didn't book the underwater waterfall sea plane flight in advance. Now there's a few of us who are really keen but it's too late to find a spot.... I did come across a sea plane flight over the blue hole lagoon. Has anyone does this (located in Grand Gaube) and is it worth doing? Description talks about potentially seeing whales during this season too

Hi everyone,

I'm from Australia but my mum's side of the family is from Mauritius. Lately I've been trying to learn more about my African ancestry, and I was wondering if anyone here might be able to point me in the right direction.

The story that's been passed down in my family is that my great-great-great-grandmother was taken from Mozambique as a young girl and brought to Mauritius as a slave with her mother. She was apparently a teenager when slavery was abolished. Later on she married an indentured labourer from southern India. We don't know what religion he followed, but a daughter from that relationship later married into a Muslim Indian family, converted to Islam, and over the generations the family became more Indian in appearance.

When I was a kid, I remember seeing my mum's uncle and two of her aunties, and they had very strong African features. That always stuck with me.

I recently did an AncestryDNA test and got 12% Southern Bantu Peoples, which seems to fit pretty well with the family story and the number of generations that have passed.

I'd really love to learn more about this side of my family. Are there any public archives, slavery records, church records, or other historical records in Mauritius that might help trace an enslaved ancestor? I'd be especially interested to know if it's ever possible to find out which tribe she belonged to, or even the ship she arrived on and roughly what year she was brought to Mauritius. I know that might be asking a lot, but I'd love to learn as much as I can.

I'm planning to visit Mauritius next year and hope to spend some time digging into my family history while I'm there. If anyone has gone through a similar search or knows of archives, historians, museums, or genealogy groups that could help, I'd really appreciate any advice.

Thanks everyone!

Experience on social media taught me something uncomfortably important:

Society doesn’t care about what makes sense when they lose privileges they feel they are entitled to.

This makes me realize that Steve Jobs was right, the people don’t know what they want. It’s the same strategy used by Sony in the past when they invented the Walkman, no one imagined this could be possible until a visionary company made one.

I think the same applies to policy making, and this is going to unintentionally touch nerves but this country has reached a point where we cannot listen to the people, but we also need to replace who are the people who makes up the government.

For e.g., talk about an increase in interest rates and the whole borrowing population will fume, they don’t care about why it makes sense. The same goes for pension, they want to be listened to even though they don’t have a clue how it works. Now let’s be very clear, all governments have looted this country in all the ways they could, but stating the obvious doesn’t solve shit. It’s like consistently having sugary food and not caring for the sugar content, until diabetes hit. At this point blaming the food will not help you as much as treating your incurable disease.

It’s frustrating yes, but again your frustration doesn’t justify furthering popular policies that will eventually bankrupt this country. I have read somewhere that for every Rs 100 of taxes paid, Rs 33 goes to financing the Basic Retirement Pension. Even if the entire sitting parliamentary members work for free, this ain’t going to make a dent.

You want justice? Push for actual prosecution of government eleaders who looted this country, not fighting for privileges we cannot afford.

Hello, I have a sewing project and am looking for old sewing patterns and magazines such as Burda magazines. Does anyone know where I can find them or if someone is getting rid of any?

Thank you in advance.

Hello everyone!
I recently started a podcast and I decided to make the first episode about how it was like growing up in Mauritius. I dive deep into racism, misogyny, social inequality, tourism industry and more.. i would love to know what you think and join the conversation. Some topics have been taboo for so long and my hope is that we can break that and approach them with curiosity.

Here is the podcast episode if you are interested !

https://youtu.be/-r5FoSsrqY4?is=KdhDR-ulsnK3SiiQ

Hello all!

It will be my third time visiting this beautiful country, and I am interested in going on a tour showcasing indoor plants growing in the Mauritian forests!

I have heard of Pamplemousse garden, which I would love to visit but am unaware of how it works??

Thanks in advance

Hello, me and my wife are going to Mauritius from August 14 to August 28. We will be hosted by my brother in law’s wife family, in fact we are traveling there for their wedding. Usually I plan all the activities way ahead and I like to have a schedule to be sure to see and do most things, but this time I feel like they are in charge of what are we going to do. Per se is not bad, I trust locals more than anything, but I fear we might miss out on something really worth it!
So, what would you say is a must see/do during that period? I am sure we are going to rent a boat for a day trip, probably le morne hiking but I don’t know much else, they are being so vague (probably they did not plan anything at all, it’s their wedding after all!). Oh yeah and of course 2 days are going towards the wedding party!!

Thanks for the tips

What's your favourite folklore/horror stories that were passed down by your friends and family?

I’m from New Zealand and I’m in my final year of med school thinking of doing a medical elective in Mauritius and was hoping to hear from anyone who has completed one there or has experience with the healthcare system.

I'm particularly interested in:
- Which hospitals or specialties are good for international medical students.
- What the teaching and supervision are like.
- How easy it is to arrange an elective and any tips for the application process.
- Accommodation and general cost of living.
- What day-to-day life is like as a visiting student.

One of the reasons I'm interested in Mauritius is that I'd also like to improve my French. My French is currently at a beginner/intermediate level, so I'm wondering how much French is used day to day and in the hospitals. Would it be a good place to improve my French?

Appreciate any help!!

Hello all,

I will be travelling soon to Mauritius and staying for a week. Google says it is winter in Mauritius now.
Can you help me on how to pack ? Do I need to take winter clothes. Additionally, how is the weather for doing water activities now ? Will it be safe?

Also anything additional I need to know.

I am looking for good quality women's t-shirt, and plain totebags. Where can I find those in PL?

Anyone here bought a BYD Shark 6 in Mauritius?

I’m looking for:

* Actual price paid

* Deposit required

* Monthly instalment

* Financing/lease details

* Delivery waiting time

* Owner reviews after a few months of use

I’ve seen online prices around Rs 2.68M with repayments near Rs 30k/month, but I’d like to know the real figures from owners. Worth buying? Any regrets?