Start from 32 curated places around Port Louis, MU, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Karai Creole
A Grand Baie spot packed with locals for old-fashioned, island-style Creole cooking, the kind of vintage Mauritian dishes you'd otherwise only eat in someone's home. Little-known to tourists and all the more authentic for it.
Ti Kouloir
A tiny street-food spot off Grand Baie's Royal Road where long queues of locals wait for steamed boulettes (dumplings) and generous bowls of fried noodles. Cheap, fast, and top-quality Sino-Mauritian street cooking at its best.
Trails & outdoors
Le Morne Brabant
A dramatic UNESCO-listed basalt monolith jutting off the island's southwest tip, climbed on a guided trail through forest to a steep, rope-assisted summit scramble with vast lagoon-and-ocean views. The island's signature hike and a powerful symbol of its history as a refuge for escaped slaves.
Black River Gorges National Park
The island's largest protected wilderness, over 60 kilometers of trails through native forest to waterfalls, gorge viewpoints, and the last refuge of Mauritius's endemic birds. The essential hiking destination, free and ranging from easy viewpoints to long treks.
Things to do
L'Aventure du Sucre
An excellent museum in a former sugar factory near Pamplemousses, telling the story of sugar, slavery, indenture, and rum that shaped Mauritius, ending with a tasting of sugars and rums. One of the island's best and most thoughtful indoor attractions.
Rhumerie de Chamarel
A working rum distillery in the Chamarel highlands set among its own sugarcane fields, offering tours of the production and tastings of its agricole rums, with a fine restaurant attached. A relaxed, grown-up highland stop.
Landmarks & sights
Central Market
Port Louis's bustling covered market, a riot of tropical fruit, vegetables, spices, and fish where the capital actually shops, plus an upstairs of crafts and street-food stalls. The most vivid slice of everyday Mauritian life in the city.
Caudan Waterfront
The redeveloped harbor-front of Port Louis, a walkable strip of shops, cafes, a museum, and a casino along the water with the city's hills behind. The easygoing place to stroll, eat, and orient yourself in the capital.