North Tour

The day begins with a visit to the capital Port-Louis. At Port Louis we are going to stop at the Citadelle"Also called Fort George" , where you will have a stunning view view of the unique harbour of Mauritius. After the Visit of the Citadelle we will move the Caudan Waterfront to see the umbrella alley. We shall then move to the oldest southern hesmiphere botanical garden which name is the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden (sometimes shortened to the SSR Botanical Garden), commonly known as the Pamplemousses Botanical Garden. It is a popular tourist attraction in the village of Pamplemousses. It is famous for its long pond of giant water lilies (Victoria amazonica), the garden was first constructed by Pierre Poivre (1719 – 1786) in 1770, and it covers an area of around 37 hectares. The garden, for a long time was ranked third among all the gardens that could be admired over the surface of the globe’, have been known successively as ‘Jardin de Mon Plaisir’, ‘Jardin des Plantes’, ‘Le Jardin National de l’Ile de France’, ‘Jardin Royal’, ‘Jardin Botanique des Pamplemousses’, and during the British colonisation, ‘The Royal Botanical Gardens of Pamplemousses’ and ‘The Royal Botanic Gardens, Pamplemousses’. On 17 September 1988 the garden was formally named “Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanic Garden”, named after the first Prime Minister of Mauritius.