Mauritius Highlights

As you get off the plane, our English speaking chauffeur guide will pick you up at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport (MRU), and then transfer you to check into the hotel. The rest of the day will be your leisure time, to recover from jet lag.

Accommodation: Le Meridien Ile Maurice (4 stars)

Get on a shared speed boat at dawn, to see cute dolphins in the sea with other visitors. You'll also get a chance to swim with these clever dolphins. After having an enjoyable time with dolphins, return to your hotel and eat breakfast. Then it's the free time for you to stroll around until about 13:00, when the chauffeur guide will send you to the port for the catamaran ride to Ile Aux Cerfs Island. This island attract tourists with multiple water sports. Paragliding, underwater walking and kayaking are the three exciting projects we arranged for you. You may pay yourself to try more projects. The chauffeur guide will send you back to your hotel in the end of the day.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Le Meridien Ile Maurice (4 stars)

This morning, we will go on to the north of this island country. We will first go to Chateau De Labourdonnais, used to be a colonial plantation with large area of fruit trees. Then we'll visit SSR Botanic Garden, or called Pamplemousses Botanical Gardens. It is full of tropical plants and the world's largest Amazon water lily. Near the botanical garden, L'Aventure du Sucre is the museum showing Mauritius' cane sugar industry. You can learn how to process cane sugar and see various cane candies. Have lunch on your own with the chauffeur guide's recommendations.

This afternoon, we will drive to the capital Port Louis and go on the Mauritius tour packages there. We are going to hang out at the large shopping malls – Central Market and Caudan Waterfront. Central Market is very native with specialties, handcrafts and spices, etc. The square of Caudan Waterfront is a popular photo site with many umbrellas in different bright colors hanging over your head. Later we're going to visit Aapravasi Ghat, the site of the first settlement of oversea indentured labors in the colonial age, which is a world cultural heritage nowadays. Finally, we'll go to Marie Reine de la Paix, an open church constructed with white marbles on the mountain. You can get a bird's eye view of the port and whole Port Louis by sea.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Le Meridien Ile Maurice (4 stars)

We will go through the highlights in the southwestern part of Mauritius. Firstly, Casela Nature Parks, a large African styled wildlife zoo with numerous flora and fauna, like a mini Kenya exactly. After having lunch by yourself, we are to visit Trou aux Cerfs in the afternoon. This is a representative crater in Mauritius, with dense forest in the surroundings. After that, we will see the beautiful gorges at Black River Gorges Viewpoint. Passing by Chamarel Waterfalls to take pictures, we will reach Chamarel Viewpoint, where is good to overlook the waterfalls as well as the scenic coast. Nearby, Chamarel 7 Colored Earth is also a miraculous place with colored soil. At last, appreciate the sunset on the sea at Tamarin Beach and go back to the hotel.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Le Meridien Ile Maurice (4 stars)

Today is a free day. You may relax at the swimming pool in hotel, taste palatable local snacks, or join the water sports provided by the hotel.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Le Meridien Ile Maurice (4 stars)

You will be sent to the airport by the chauffeur guide, to take your homebound flight on time. A nice journey home!

Meals: Breakfast