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We have just visited Mauritius Island in the Indian Ocen for the first time and can agree uppon the following account of Mauritius:

Mauritius Island and Its Attractions

Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean can be considered as a unique destination in the world with complete visitors attractions.

Many of the beach hotels operate a club house with practice nets and a store room for guests’ golf equipment.

The Gymkhana Club in Vacoas – A Mauritius golf course

This is the only private club with an 18-hole golf course. A new golf course has been created on Ile Aux Cerfs and others are being planned in other parts of the island.

Casinos in Mauritius

This is another one of the island’s attractions and is catered for on a lavish scale by some resort hotels, which offer a variety of tables (roulette, blackjack, etc.) as well as “one-armed bandits” or fruits machines.

Horse Racing in Mauritius

Of outstanding interest for visitors is Horse Racing, at Champ de Mars in Port Louis. The race course is one of the oldest of its kind in the southern hemisphere. The season previously ran from May to November, but as from the year 2010 it runs from March to December. Among the main meeting held is the Mauritian derby, the Maiden Plate, run in mid-September.

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The greatest resource of Mauritius is its people …

Royston Ellis poet and writer reports, “Visitors to Mauritius come first as tourists and stay in beach hotel. On their second visit they rent self-catering accommodation. On their third visit they stay with a Mauritian family. They then feel at home.”

There are many who believe that the greatest wealth of this island-nation is its people, the descendants of immigrants from many continents, with an amazing blend of cultures, whose hospitality has been acclaimed as “legendary and spontaneous.”

This is one reason why the tourist, whether from Africa, India, China, Europe or anywhere in the world can always find the island a piece of his own world he can relate with. The number of tourists visiting Mauritius has been increasing year by year. Here too the Mauritian record is impressive.

Not surprisingly, many visitors who have adopted Mauritius as their holiday home claim that they feel more intensely alive here than anywhere else, that they relate with other people on a much more personal level than even back in their own home countries, that they end up discovering important things about themselves that they were not aware of.

Testimonies which only go to confirm the truth of what poets and visionaries have affirmed that Mauritius has been built according to the scale of the man, a place where the man is not dwarfed by the sheer size of the country and the immensity of his natural environment, a place where he can come into his own, where he can be a man among other man.

Author: Valirie Seneque, a retired air hostess, has been a professional hostess for Air Mauritius for several years. She has travelled throughout everywhere around the world and her experience has helped her to publish many tourism articles in the national print magazine, and her web site at http://www.mauritravel.com/articles.php?id=207