La Belle Maurice

Port Louis

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Waterfront

Le Caudan Waterfront

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The waterfront of Port Louis: a shopping promenade under coloured umbrellas, restaurants, an arts centre, a cinema and the Blue Penny Museum.

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Market

Port Louis Central Market

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The bazaar of Port Louis: fruit and vegetables under the hall, street food, crafts upstairs. This is where the capital does its shopping.

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World Heritage Site

Aapravasi Ghat

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On the harbour of Port Louis, the remains of the immigration depot through which more than 462,000 indentured labourers passed. A UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Art and history museum

Blue Penny Museum

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The art and history museum on Le Caudan Waterfront, home to the Post Office stamps known to collectors the world over.

from MUR 325 per person

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Oceanarium

Odysseo Oceanarium

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The oceanarium of Port Louis, at Les Salines: 300 species of the Indian Ocean, from sharks to rays, in an indoor visit open every day.

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Fort and viewpoint

La Citadelle, Fort Adelaide

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The stone fort the British raised from 1830 to 1840 on the hill above Port Louis, and a full panorama over the capital.

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Chinese restaurant

Restaurant Lai Min

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Cantonese and Hakka cooking at 58 Royal Road, in Port Louis, run by the same family since 1946 and closed on Mondays.

from MUR 850 per person

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Historic quarter

Chinatown, Port Louis

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Around Royal Road, one of the oldest Chinatowns in Africa: narrow streets, shops handed down the generations, dim sum and murals.

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National museum

Natural History Museum, Port Louis

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The island’s oldest museum, facing the Jardin de la Compagnie: five centuries of Mauritian natural history, and a dodo skeleton whose bones all come from a single bird.

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Chinese restaurant

The City Orient

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A Cantonese table in the centre of Port Louis, open since 2004, with chefs from Guangdong.

from MUR 8,000 per group

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City-centre restaurant

Wapalapam La Place

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The Wapalapam table at 6 Sir William Newton Street, in Port Louis, a short walk from the central market.

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Racecourse

Champ de Mars

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The racecourse of Port Louis, inaugurated in 1812 at the foot of the hills, and the place where independence was proclaimed in 1968.

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Courtyard restaurant

Le Courtyard

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A courtyard table in the centre of Port Louis, at the corner of Chevreau and St Louis streets.

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Garden

The Company’s Garden

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The garden at the centre of Port Louis, between two streams, which owes its name to the French East India Company.

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Hotel

Labourdonnais Waterfront Hotel

Port-Louis

One hundred and five five-star rooms and suites on the Port Louis waterfront, with an executive floor, a conference centre and a free sunset cruise twice a week.

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Pagoda

Kwan Tee Pagoda

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At Les Salines, a red pagoda built by the Chinese community in 1842, facing the sea with the mountains behind.

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Museum

Mauritius Postal Museum

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In the old General Post Office on the waterfront, a Victorian building completed in 1870, the story of Mauritian mail since the Dutch.

from MUR 225 per person

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Garden

Robert Edward Hart Garden

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A Port Louis garden laid out from 1931, partly reclaimed from a coastal marsh, and named in 1959 after the Mauritian poet.

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Hotel

Le Suffren Hotel & Marina

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A four-star city hotel on the Port Louis marina, nautical in theme, with an artificial beach, a hydropool, a squash court and a sushi and oyster bar.

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