An 11-Day Tour of Mauritius

Fri 17 August


11H00 - Airport HK
13H45 - Departure by MK641
19H30 - Airport Mauritius
21H00 - Hotel Coral Azur Beach Resort 藍珊瑚度假酒店, Mont Choisy (dinner)

Sat 18 August


07H00 - Breakfast
09H00 - leave for Grand Baie
09H15 - Grand Baie
09H45 - leave for Cap Malheureux
10H00 - Cap Malheureux
10H30 - leave for Pamplemousses Garden
11H00 - Pamplemousses Garden 國家植物園
13H00 - leave for Suger Museum
13H10 - Lunch and visit Suger museum 糖業博物館
16H00 - leave for La Croisette Shopping Mall
16H15 - La Croisette Shopping Mall
17H50- leave for Hotel
18H00 - Hotel
19H00 - dinner

Sun 19 August


07H00 Breakfast
08H00 - leave Hotel (to Ming Tek 45 mins.)
09H00 - Mass At Ming Tek Centre 明德中心 (Rue Eugène Laurent, Port Louis)
gathering with the Chinese Mauritians
12H00 - Nam Shun Fooy Koon Pagoda, 南順會館 immigrants with Ah Fan Tan Wen
12H45 - Port Louis: Kwan Tee Pagoda 關帝廟 - the Fukien 福建 immigrants with Log Choisan
13H00 - Port Louis: Heen Foh Lee Kwon Pagoda 仁和會館, the Hakka 客家 immigrants with Konfortion
14H00 - Port Louis: China Heritage Museum, Remy Ollier Street or the private temple on the top of a tall building.
15H30 - Shrine of Father Laval 黑人之父朝聖地 at Sainte Croix
16H30 - leave Sainte Croix
19H00 - dinner
20H30 - stargazing 觀星
Sun 日 (set 17:58)
Moon月 (set 00:48)
Venus金 Great visibility (set 21:13)
Mars 火 Perfect visibility
Jupiter 木 Fairly good visibility
Saturn 土 Perfect visibility
Uranus天王 Average visiblity (rise 22:38)
- Basic Astronomy
- Stargazing at the sky of the southern hemisphere
- Stargazing tools

Mon 20 August


07H00 Breakfast
08H45 - leave for Appravasi Ghat (50 mins.)
09H30 - Appravasi Ghat 契約勞工發源地 (Immigration Depot, 1834) －World Heritage Site 世界遺產
11H00 - leave for Rose Hill (30 mins.)
11H30 - Late Sir Jean Ah Chuen Museum 朱梅麟爵士博物館
Late Sir Jean Ah Chuen 朱梅麟爵士
12H30 - leave for Bagatelle Mall (20 mins.)
13H00 - lunch time at Bagatelle Mall
14H30 - leave for Sui Loong Elderly Home
15H00 - Sui Loong Elderly Home 瑞龍護老院

17H00 - leave for hortel
18H00 - Hotel
19H00 - dinner
20H30 - stargazing 觀星

Tue 21 August
07H00 Breakfast
free day for sunshine and beach
19H00 - dinner

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Wed 22 August


07H00 Breakfast
(move to hotel Anelia Resort & Spa 安內莉雅渡假村別墅及水療中心, Coastal Road, Flic-en-Flac)
09H00 - leave Hotel for Grand Bassin
09H45 - Grand Bassin 大聖湖, sacred lake
10H45 - leave Grand Bassin for Bois Cheri (10 mins.)
11H00 - Visit Bois Cheri Tea Factory and Tea Museum 茶廠和茶葉博物館
*12H00 - Lunch at Bois Cheri Restaurant
14H30 - Visit Saint Aubin House - Traditional Distillery, Vanilla House
15H30 - leave for hotel
16H30 - hotel
19H00 - dinner

Thur 23 August


07H00 Breakfast
08H30 - leave for La Vallée Des Couleurs
09H20 - La Vallée Des Couleurs Nature Park
14H30 - leave for Rhumerie de Chamarel
15H30 - Rhumerie de Chamarel
17H00 - leave for hotel
17H50 - hotel Anelia
19H00 - dinner
20H30 - stargazing 觀星

Fri 24 August


07H00 Breakfast
09H00 - leave Hotel for Le Morne(40 mins.)
09H45 - Le Morne 莫奈山 －World Heritage Site 世界遺產
12H00 - leave Le Morne
13H00 - lunch at Souillac - Gris Gris
15H00 - leave Souillac
15H40 - Blue Bay - Coral reef
17H30 - leave Blue Bay
18H30 - Hotel
19H00 - dinner
20H30 - stargazing 觀星

Sat 25 August
07H00 Breakfast
free day for sunshine and beach
19H00 - dinner

Sun 26 August


07H00 Breakfast
10H00 - leave for the 7 cascades lodges(45 mins)
10H45 - visit the 7 cascades lodges
*12H00 - lunch buffet
After lunch, free walking around in the nature and see the waterfalls
14H00 - leave for Trou Aux Cerfs Volcano
14H30 - Trou Aux Cerfs Volcano
16H15 - leave for airport
17H00 - Airport
20H45 - MK640

Mon 27 August
10H30 - Hong Kong airport


Novels:
Bernardin de Saint Pierre (1737-1814), Paul and Mary: an Indian story, 1787.
R.M.Ballantyne (1825-1894), Black Ivory, 1878.
(free ebook/pdf)
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898): Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865),
in Chapters 2 and 3, a fictional character Dodo appears.
Mark Twain (1835-1910), "Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World" written on a year-long, around the world lecture tour in July 1895. On Chapter 26-27, he recorded his visit to Mauritius.

Articles:
The geography of Mauritius
The formation of volcanic islands
Coral Reefs of the Mascarenes, Western Indian Ocean
Corals tutorial

How humanity first killed the dodo then lost it as well - BBC
Rare dodo skeleton to be auctioned in West Sussex - BBC
discovery of dodo bones
Mare aux Songes - Dodo fossil - BBC

Sugar Industry of Mauritius
Slavery and Colonial Identity in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius
Illegal Slave Trade to Mauritius
Mauritius and Trinidad

Mauritius- Independence and Dependence
The Future of Mauritius
Michelin Guide of Mauritius




- Updated on 06 August, 2018.