Water Sports:

Mauritius offers marvelous facilities for the water sports enthusiast. In many hotels windsurfing, scrolling, snorkeling and water skiing are provided free to hotel guests with free instruction for beginners, while only diving and big-game fishing are charged for.

The Under Sea Walk:

True to its name, it is really under water and it is also a walk. What is not very well known though, is that you don't have to know how to swim and that you are only about 10 or 15 feet under water. There are five excursions a day from main centre in Photo Grand Bay and each session lasts about 90 minutes and it is perfectly suitable for children above the age of 7 years.

Parasailing:

Parasailing takes a parachute, a boat, which fetches you at Grand Bay and takes you right into the blue, and a desire to have fun. Securely fastened into a harness you will be eased into the air and find yourself about 500 feet above in a matter of a few seconds. The boat takes you at varying speeds and heights, which it controls, and you literally cruise along like a bird.

Chamarel Coloured Earths:

Founded in the district of Black River, easily accessed from Case Noyale by a twisting road, Chamarel Coloured Earth are coloured soils formed by Volcanic Ashes which are naturally displayed in a pattern of different colours.

Le Caudan Waterfront :

Le Caudan is tourist and Commercial landmark unique in Mauritius. Le Caudan offers sophisticated shopping and up market entertainment. A mix of 50 selected retail outlets and a craft market promotes Le Caudan as a single most popular shopping and leisure destination for the local population and a grown tourist market.

The Blue Safari

It is an interesting name and very apt too. It is a submarine experience which takes you down 30 metres under the sea to the colour of the coral and even the wreck of a ship. Seated in an air conditioned cabin under atmospheric pressure you will be able to discover the magnificence of the undersea world, colourful coral, glittering fish and the Starhope wreck.

Booking: 48 hrs in advance & contact at : contact@govantravels.com
Spear fishing and the collection of shells, corals, fishes are strictly prohibited.

Shopping in Mauritius:

Duty free shops intended for tourists holding passport and air tickets have been springing continuously in the last few years and prices are most attractive. Mauritius is also an excellent place to buy textiles and has made a name for itself in the knitwear field. Fine cuisine fans will be able to take away a colourful range of chillies, candied fruits, special vegetable pickles, vanila tea and rum.

Port Louis:

The capital of Mauritius has two Cathedrals, Anglican and Catholic, 18th century Barracks, a Natural History Museum. The Worldwide Masks Museum etc.

Curepipe:

It is the island's main urban centre, a pleasant town which lacks the atmosphere of Port Louis but has good shops and restaurants. Between Curepipe and Floreal is the spectacular Trou Aux Cers, an extinct crater 85 m deep and more than 200 m wide from the rim of which one enjoys on extensive view of the island.

Pamplelousses:

The gardens are know to naturalists throughout the world for their large collection of indigenous and exotic plants, including the giant Victoria Amazonica water lilies and many species of palm trees. Of particular interest is the talipot pal, which is said to flower once every sixty years and thereafter dies.

Trou aux Biches:

Grande Baie: The Northern coastline beyond Tombeau Bay has many delightful beaches Trou aux Beaches with its splendid Hindu Temple, then further up the coast Choisy, one of the most popular beaches of the island which offers facilities for safe bathing, sailing, windsurfing and water skiing. Finally, the coastline curves into Grand Baie itself, the main centre for yachting, water skiing, windsurfing and many other water sports.