Mauritius Photo Gallery

On our way to Mauritius from Madagascar

Tasting room at the sugarcane plantation

New Grove rum is popular

Also the Lazy Dodo

Everywhere we drove the mountains were impressive

View from the sugarcane plantation

Processing sugarcane requires heavy lifting

Peaceful tree lined road

Views from the car

A smaller local distillery

Local rum made in small batches

Mont Choisy is one of the biggest beaches in the North

Lots of locals out on the beach

Mont Choisy sunset

Mont Choisy sunset

Mont Choisy sunset

Pretty good wood fired pizza

And fresh house made pasta

Our vacation renal in the North

Dive shop right across the street

Our dive boat left right from the beach

On the dive boat

Views looking back at the beach from the boat

The local beer of Mauritius

The shop at the small spa

Suffering through the sweat box!

It was very hot

Ending the day with another beach sunset

Boats on our local beach

First Indian food dinner

The Hilton non-kids pool

Swimming area at sunset

Views of the Hilton from the drone

Views of the Hilton from the drone

Lots of koi at the Hilton

Our seafood feast in town

Popular seafood restaurant

The Black River Gorges National Park

There were a lot of cool trees in the forest

And the Black River

Our hike to the waterfall started out like this

But soon became very dense jungle

Mare Aux Joncs at the end

It was refreshing and almost cold by the waterfall

We discovered more from the drone

Looking back on what we hiked through

We discovered some monkeys near the end

The Macaque monkeys are an invasive species

Macaque monkey

Another large tree

Small creek near the parking area

Sunset on our beach

Le Morne hike and the guard / gate

After we got past the gate

The very steep part is in need of some ropes

Looking back down on the hike

We had excellent views from the top

Lots of kite boarders below

At the top of Le Morne

The views were amazing

The underwater waterfall

Getting our turn for pictures

Views of the other side

We stayed for a long time at the top taking in the view

More pictures

After the hike we stopped at the Chamarel rhumerie

Seeing sugarcane processing on the tour

Distilling the rum

Rum on display

Rum tasting many different kinds

The special extended tasting

Extra rare rum

Our late lunch at Chamarel

Delicious meringue dessert

Le Morne on the drive back

More amazing views from the drone

A rainbow on the mountain!

Back at the resort for sunset

Last sunset on the beach

Sunset on the beach

2nd Indian dinner