Mauritius Gallery

Mauritius - Moka Railway Station

Mauritius - Moka Railway Station. A number of narrow gauge industrial railway lines, connected sugar mills with nearby sugar cane plantations. Some of the steam locomotives used on these lines are now preserved, mostly at various sugar mills around Mauritius Date: circa 1905

© Bubblepunk / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Mauritius - Pamplemousses - Basin Farquar

Mauritius - Pamplemousses Botanical Garden (now Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden) - Basin Farquar, named in honour of the first British Governor, Robert Farquhar, who brought about an entente cordiale between the French former colonists and troops and British officials. The oldest botanical garden in the Southern Hemisphere. Date: circa 1905

© Bubblepunk / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Beach at Le Morne Brabant

Mauritius, Le Morne Brabant, a basalt monolith core of an extinct volcano of historic significance, was named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2008 and has some of the best beaches and hotels on the island

© John Seaton Callahan

531959826, Africa, Basalt, Basalt Column, Beach, Black River, Color Image, Horizontal, Indian Ocean, Indian Ocean Islands, Mauritius, Mountain, Mountain Peak, No People, Outdoors, Photography, Physical Geography, Sand, Sea, Southern Africa, Tourism, Travel, Travel Destinations, Unesco, Unesco World Heritage Site, Vacations, Water