Preferential Travel Insurance Destination Profiles - Mauritius
Have you got the right type of travel insurance for Mauritius?
When visiting Mauritius, the type of travel insurance you require is:
Worldwide ex USA/Canada/Caribbean/Hong Kong/China/Mexico & Singapore
Read our Mauritius Fact File
Local Time: GMT+4
Currency:
Mauritian Rupee
Official Languages: English
Discover Things to do on Holiday in Mauritius
Mauritius, famous for the Dodo, is a beautiful island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar.
Well known as being a luxury holiday destination, the island has an array of five star hotels and resorts to choose from.
A firm favourite with honeymooners and romantics alike, each resort offers a wide choice of accommodation from honeymoon suites, to family apartments to beachfront villas, all alongside white sandy beaches and the crystal clear Indian Ocean.
Most resorts offer a good choice of restaurants and the cuisine, in Mauritius, is world-renowned with many of the hotels employing Michelin Star Chefs.
A local delicacy well worth a try is the Palm Heart salad, often known as 'Millionaire's salad' for the costly way in which it is harvested.
Mauritius represents the rich fabric of life, with many languages spoken in addition to its official language - English.
Other oriental languages, which are spoken, include Bhojpuri, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Telegu, Marathi, Gujerati and Sanscrit, which all come from India, and Cantonese and the Hakka which come from China. French and Creole are also widely spoken.
Creole has propagated popular art, especially in music and rhythms have combined with African dance and evolved into the Sega, the national dance of Mauritius.
As well as its rich history and culture, Mauritius has plenty to see and visit including Port Louis, the capital and main port of Mauritius founded in 1735, Pamplemousses, botanical gardens known to naturalists throughout the world for its large collection of indigenous and exotic palms, the coloured earths at Chamarel, mounds of undulating earth in contrasting layers of colours and the Casela Bird Park, with over 140 varieties of birds from five continents whose main attraction is the Mauritian Pink Pigeon - one of the rarest birds in the world.
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N.B This information was correct at time of publishing, but for full and up-to-date information visit the relevant tourist board website. You should always know the Foreign & Commonwealth Office status of the country you are visiting before you go.
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