The UN has added Le Morne to its world heritage list.

Le Morne is now on the list of World Heritage sites. That’s one more reason to get an overview of the majestic mountain and its surroundings.

Women slaves were not always willing to follow maroon men.

The roles played by women on maroon bands were quite diverse even though not much information is available on their activities. From records gathered in the archives, the proportion of maroon women was much less than that of men and there are quite a few explanations for this phenomenon.

The Morne Brabant Mountain served as a place of refuge for maroons.

The life of maroon leaders instilled a great deal of courage and guts among slaves to break free from their masters. There were those maroons who were charismatic and had many followers among their own kind as their moves and ways were unique.

Le Morne Brabant is the embodiment of a long tradition of maroonage in Mauritius.

The Morne dossier has successfully made it through the sieve of the International Council on Monuments and Sites some days back and the final round of assessment at the desk of the UNESCO is now awaited. It is now a matter of days and the countdown has already begun.

The Chinese Heritage Centre is found in Rémy Ollier Street, Chinatown.

You must have often heard how Port Louis looked in the good old days, but trying to make a picture of those scenes must have proved a difficult task. Now you will have a chance to see from still-life arrangements, scenes of daily life in the capital zooming on Chinese culture.

Our colonizers have left us many a solid structure of strategic importance during their reign which in one way or another case shaped the history of Mauritius. Among these are the imposing Martello Towers built along the coast to guard the island against invasion. They stand at the main bays as military response to enemy landings.

Landmark Plaza building in Rose Hill

What you can see of the Plaines Wilhems district is not at all what it looked like more than a century ago. Important towns of this district with imposing buildings and infrastructure were built on sugar estates way back in the 1850s.

Welcome to Chinatown

The Chinatown that we see today in Port Louis, stret­ching from Joseph Rivière Street to Dr Sun Yat Sen Street and along Royal Street, is not what it was when the first wave of Chinese immigration to Mau­ri­tius took place during the Taiping Re­bellion. Chinese bu­sinesses were quite varied and they sold almost everything.

The Citadel was designed by Tho­mas Cun­nin­gham

Perched majestically on a hill called La Petite Mon­tagne, the Citadel of Port Louis, officially named Fort Adélaïde in honour of the wife of the then ruling King of England, William IV, overlooks the city with a vigilant eye on the harbour. Even if it no longer serves the purpose for which it was built by the British Government, the solid stone walls of this vestige of the past have many a tale to tell.

St Louis Cathedral in Port-Louis

We rarely find any open space in the centre of Port Louis. Each and every iota of land in the city is being used in the name of development, and the place now resembles a concrete jungle except for a few lucky spots still left untouched.