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CultureInitially a challenge, the idea of hosting the first Picasso exhibition in the Indian Ocean has at last come to fruition in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius.... Read more First trip to Mauritius, Picasso -
GastronomyThere will come a time when we must salute and honour those brigands, those buccaneers, those traffickers who risked their lives crossing the seas and braving the... Read more The pineapple, a proud fruit -
CultureThe dragon dance forms part of the tradition of the Chinese New Year, the first day of the first month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar. It indicates the beginning... Read more The Chinese Dragons -
CelebrityJulien Clerc, an iconic French singer, on tour in the Indian Ocean to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his career, stopped off in Mauritius. We met at the Trou... Read more Julien Clerc : The female island -
CultureThe Hindu temple Shri Sockalingum Meenatchee Ammen, also known as the Kaylasson Temple, is the most important Tamil place of worship of Mauritius. Situated at... Read more The Kaylasson Temple -
GastronomyA recipe is an open book where you can read between the lines. And so it is with this pan-fried red snapper and prawns’ tails with cumin. Behind this dish hides... Read more Chef Nived Puresh: Pan-fried red snapper and prawns’ tails with cumin -
CultureIn each of his novels, the writer plunges his everyday heroes into the whirlwinds of Mauritian history. Intense cyclone Carol, which devastated the island on 28... Read more Carl de Souza: The cyclones of history -
DiscoveryThe minuscule sandbank of Tromelin, one of the rare relics of the French colonial empire, didn’t exist until 1763, when the contemporaries of Voltaire and... Read more The island of forgotten slaves -
DiscoveryEliot, Delphine, Arthur… These are the names given to a pod living off the coast of Mauritius by the oceanographer François Sarano, to... Read more François Sarano: What sperm whales can teach us -
CelebrityThe legendary South African musician, Johhny Clegg stayed at Shandrani Beachcomber Resort & Spa during his visit to Mauritius in October 2018 for his first... Read more Johnny Clegg at Shandrani Beachcomber: “Struggle defines and shapes life”