Hey everyone! I'm building a community for artists in Mauritius to share their work, exchange ideas, discuss art and meet other creatives. All mediums and experience levels are welcome. We're aiming for a space where creativity and intelligent conversations go hand in hand. I'd love to welcome more artists! Even if you do not consider yourself an artist but you do share an interest in art and like to see what are the talents of our youth, all the more reason to have you!

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I have a question. I’m visiting Mauritius as a tourist, and I’m a UK tax resident. My old Sony earbuds stopped working during the trip, so I’m thinking of buying AirPods Pro 3. They cost over £200 at the Apple Store in the UK. If I buy them here in Mauritius, can I get a refund for the duties or taxes I pay? They’re for personal use, and I could even throw away the packaging. Is there any way to claim a refund, and what would I need to do?

Hi all,

We’re leaving for our honeymoon in Mauritius early November for a little over two weeks. We’ve booked multiple hotels to see more of the island (east, south and north). We’ll try to book a rental car.

We’ll have a few hours between check out and check in. Any tips on how to deal with the hours in between? We’d like to exploring some towns, beaches and do some hiking, but wondering how safe it is to leave luggage in the car.

I write this all hoping everyone is safe and settled of course. I’m keeping up-to-date with the news.

Thank you!

Hey guys ... I'm thinking of applying to Middlesex University Mauritius for the next cohort and wanted to know how life as a international student is there from essentials , social culture , part time student employment as well as community ... Do they also accept IGCSE'S?

Hey! I’m thinking about getting a tattoo, but I don’t really know any good tattoo artists or studios here.

I’m looking for someone who’s professional, experienced, and known for doing high-quality work, especially when it comes to draw his own tattoo, do clean lines and pay attention to detail.

Do you guys have any recommendations based on personal experience? Thank you in advance!

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I visited it at the start of 2020, couple of months before COVID19 lockdowns, it was accessible only by car as it was on a highway, either on the western or eastern side of the island, steak was served by a very kind Mauritian lady, her husband even gave me a ride to my AirBnB due to the time being late and no Taxi's around working.

Tried to use Google Map to remember either its name or even the decoration used from the picture, but was unsuccessful.

EDIT: The bar has outside seating, bar serving table was round, and the entrance has Tiki style decor, it was away from the sea.

I want to buy a Chinese rom phone from AliExpress but im worried that juice and absa banking won't work, anyone has any experience with it? Thanks.

My answer is simple.

Mauritius is a safe place.

The people of Mauritius are generally non-aggressive, gentle, and welcoming to outsiders—especially to short-term visitors.

However, this perspective comes from someone like me who has lived in South Africa; the reality can vary significantly depending on your skin color or nationality.

If you ask the locals here whether Mauritius is safe, they will generally say yes—but that is because their frame of reference is Mauritius itself. If you were from Singapore, for instance, you might strongly disagree. Let me explain a few points:

1. You are safe if you stay within your hotel.

The people of Mauritius are not a mob looking to loot hotels.

1. If you intend to leave your hotel in the evening, please note that the government’s curfew is still in effect. Furthermore, traveling from most hotels would require passing through areas where the recent unrest took place.

2. Most tourist activities have returned to normal. Hotel services are also operating as usual, as staff are being transported to and from work in dedicated vans.

That said, to be honest, things have not yet returned to 100% normalcy.

1. The issues currently fueling public frustration in Mauritius—such as rising costs of living and problems with the water supply—are chronic, meaning that similar unrest could potentially erupt again at any time.

2. Personally, I believe the current Mauritian government is managing the situation well.

- Of course, some of you may disagree.

Mauritius is highly sensitive to its reputation as a safe and welcoming destination for tourists, so the authorities make a concerted effort to ensure that visitors remain unaffected.

1. However, if you are planning to drive a rental car late into the evening, visit the beach, or travel all around Mauritius, now is definitely not the right time. Please cancel your travel plans.

The situation in Mauritius is clearly quite different at the moment.

1. In the central region where I live, there haven’t been any riots;

however, many supermarkets are running low on bottled water, and it appears that other supplies have been subject to panic buying.

At the same time, there is a noticeable decrease in the number of people walking on the streets, even during the day.

If your skin color differs from that of the local Mauritian population, you should certainly exercise caution.

1. Mauritians are good people.

However, they generally dislike speaking openly to outsiders about the negative aspects of their country.

So, if you ask, "Is Mauritius safe?"

99% of the time, they will answer, " no problem."

But the truth is, there *is* a problem.

1. Let me reiterate: Mauritius is a safe place.

The vast majority of Mauritians are truly kind-hearted people. I have received a great deal of help from the community here on the Mauritius subreddit.

It pains me to see the people of Mauritius—a country I love—suffering. I have no intention of criticizing the people or the government of this nation.

In fact, I believe the current government is managing the situation quite well.

1. Most tourists tend to ask the same question:

"How long will this tense situation last?"

Based on my experience, things should return to normal by next week.

Of course, the root cause of the current tension has not yet been resolved.

However, unlike in France, the authorities in Mauritius wield significant power and control. Also, the majority of people living in the central region do not support these riots.

So, everything should return to normal by next Monday.

It would be best to hold off on your trip until at least after next week.

I’m sharing a passage below so you can read it for yourself. It’s anonymous. And if you can understand the motive behind this, you'll understand why everything all around us is happening.

“An illusion it will be, so large, so vast it will escape their perception. Those who will see it will be thought of as insane.”

“We will create separate fronts to prevent them from seeing the connection between us. We will behave as if we are not connected to keep the illusion alive. Our goal will be accomplished one drop at a time so as to never bring suspicion upon ourselves. This will also prevent them from seeing the changes as they occur.

“We will always stand above the relative field of their experience for we know the secrets of the absolute. We will work together always and will remain bound by blood and secrecy. Death will come to he who speaks.

“We will keep their lifespan short and their minds weak while pretending to do the opposite. We will use our knowledge of science and technology in subtle ways so they will never see what is happening. We will use soft metals, aging accelerators and sedatives in food and water, also in the air. They will be blanketed by poisons everywhere they turn.

The soft metals will cause them to lose their minds. We will promise to find a cure from our many fronts, yet we will feed them more poison. The poisons will be absorbed through their skin and mouths, they will destroy their minds and reproductive systems. From all this, their children will be born dead, and we will conceal this information.

The poisons will be hidden in everything that surrounds them, in what they drink, eat, breathe and wear. We must be ingenious in dispensing the poisons for they can see far. We will teach them that the poisons are good, with fun images and musical tones. Those they look up to will help. We will enlist them to push our poisons.

“They will see our products being used in film and will grow accustomed to them and will never know their true effect. When they give birth we will inject poisons into the blood of their children and convince them it's for their help. We will start early on when their minds are young, we will target their children with what children love most, sweet things.

When their teeth decay we will fill them with metals that will kill their mind and steal their future. When their ability to learn has been affected, we will create medicine that will make them sicker and cause other diseases for which we will create yet more medicine. We will render them docile and weak before us by our power. They will grow depressed, slow and obese, and when they come to us for help, we will give them more poison.

“We will focus their attention toward money and material goods so they may never connect with their inner self. We will distract them with fornication, external pleasures and games so they may never be one with the oneness of it all. Their minds will belong to us and they will do as we say. If they refuse we shall find ways to implement mind-altering technology into their lives.

We will use fear as our weapon. We will establish their governments and establish opposites within. We will own both sides. We will always hide our objective but carry out our plan. They will perform the labor for us and we shall prosper from their toil.

“Our families will never mix with theirs. Our blood must be pure always, for it is the way. We will make them kill each other when it suits us. We will keep them separated from the oneness by dogma and religion. We will control all aspects of their lives and tell them what to think and how. We will guide them kindly and gently letting them think they are guiding themselves.

We will foment animosity between them through our factions. When a light shall shine among them, we shall extinguish it by ridicule, or death, whichever suits us best. We will make them rip each other's hearts apart and kill their own children. We will accomplish this by using hate as our ally, anger as our friend. The hate will blind them totally, and never shall they see that from their conflicts we emerge as their rulers.

They will be busy killing each other. They will bathe in their own blood and kill their neighbors for as long as we see fit. We will benefit greatly from this, for they will not see us, for they cannot see us. We will continue to prosper from their wars and their deaths. We shall repeat this over and over until our ultimate goal is accomplished. We will continue to make them live in fear and anger through images and sounds. We will use all the tools we have to accomplish this. The tools will be provided by their labor. We will make them hate themselves and their neighbors.

“We will always hide the divine truth from them, that we are all one. This they must never know! Drop by drop, drop by drop we will advance our goal. We will take over their land, resources and wealth to exercise total control over them. We will deceive them into accepting laws that will steal the little freedom they will have. We will establish a money system that will imprison them forever, keeping them and their children in debt. When they shall band together, we shall accuse them of crimes and present a different story to the world for we shall own all the media. We will use our media to control the flow of information and their sentiment in our favor. When they shall rise up against us we will crush them like insects, for they are less than that. They will be helpless to do anything for they will have no weapons.”

Hope everyone is safe and doing well. Me and my partner are traveling to Mauritius this weekend for a week long trip and I was wondering if it is safe or should we change our plans?
Any updates on the current situation would be appreciated!

Both seem like interesting places to visit (Chagos is impossible unless you are a millionaire it seems!).

It seems very difficult to get to. Has anyone every been? What was it like? How was accommodation handled? Also costs?

Saw a post saying 15 minors were caught in a certain locality last night.
Seeing younger generations engage in such kind of vandalism, which let’s be honest, have nothing to do with water or Élodie in the first place, makes me wonder whats gonna happen in a few years.
It’s a little hard to believe they actually are ‘protesting’ for the actual issue; seems to me it’s just like for the thrill of it. Declar royos lavabo-man.

Hi everyone! I’m planning to travel to Mauritius in about two weeks (end of October), and I’d love to hear from people who live there or have visited recently. I have a couple of questions:

• Is it safe to travel to Mauritius at the moment given the recent situation? Is there anything I should be aware of before my trip?
• How’s the weather currently? Is it mostly sunny, rainy, or windy?

Any recent updates, tips, or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! 😊

Hi everyone. I hope this situation gets resolved as quickly as possible. I want to know how people are coping with having to stay at home during the curfew hours. Personally as a uni student, its very boring but at least i feel secure in my home.

As the title says, is it a requirement? Some people are telling me no, some yes 🤔

Bonjour / Hello everyone,

I am researching my Mauritian family history from abroad, so I unfortunately cannot visit the local archives myself. I have hit a massive brick wall trying to find the parents and background of my ancestors, Luc Monty(born ~1837) and Marie Potier (born ~1837).

I am looking for anyone who visits the National Archives in Coromandel or the Civil Status Division in Port Louis who might be able to check the physical indexes for their Civil Marriage Record.

The Timeline & Context:

• The Marriage Window: Luc Monty and Marie Potier likely married in Mauritius between 1855 and 1867.
• The Anchor Link: I know this because their daughter, Marie Thérèse Monty, was born around 1867. She later married Félix Leroy, and they lived in Montagne Blanche, Moka.
• Why I am stuck online: Digital databases (like FamilySearch) have completely buried this family line. As you can see in the attached birth certificate of their grandchild, the colonial clerks made confusing manual corrections to the registry years (crossing out 1907/1908 and overwriting entries). Because of these messy handwritten edits, the family was never properly indexed online.

If anyone has access to the physical alphabetical marriage index ledgers for the 1850s–1860s British colonial era and could look for the name Luc Monty or Marie Potier/Pottier, it would completely break this brick wall for me. Knowing their parents' names would mean the world to my family history.

Merci beaucoup for any leads or archival help!

A curfew order is in force as from 20:30 today until tomorrow at 06:00. Do not go out unless you have a justifiable reason to do so. Stay safe. Edit: Curfew lifted today 14/10 at 06:00

hello its my first time doing an internship and i got one at gfa. How is it to work there

any tips i should know as an intern?

also from the bus stop Victoria i think its about 30 min walk should i take this into consideration before fully accepting it?

Élodie Thomas told her husband she was on her way home.
That message should have been followed by a door opening, a mother returning to her child, another working day over.
Instead, the 27-year-old mother was critically injured by a police bullet while travelling home from work at Camp-Levieux on 9 October.
As a Mauritian citizen, I am angry. But I want to make my position clear I do not support violence, destroying other people’s belongings, damaging businesses or public property, or actions that force schools to close and disrupt children’s education. Workers, families and students should not suffer further.

But I understand the frustration behind this unrest. Opposing destruction does not mean staying silent about failures or accepting endless requests for calm and trust.

According to the driver’s testimony reported by L’Express, the sergeant opened his door, pointed a gun at his head and threatened him. The driver says he drove away in fear before a shot passed through the rear window and struck Élodie. These allegations require a thorough, independent investigation.

The DPP has also recommended investigating whether other officers present failed to assist a person in danger. What did they see? What did they do? Was help provided when it was needed? The police must account for the actions of everyone involved.

The successful removal of the bullet offers hope, and the medical teams deserve recognition. But Élodie’s long-term recovery remains uncertain. Medical progress cannot settle responsibility for the shooting.

To the ministers who visit, meet the family or publicly express solidarity your responsibility does not end when you leave.

A visit can bring comfort. Sympathy can be sincere. But what lasting support will follow? Who will help this family through treatment, any rehabilitation and the financial burdens that may arise?
Ministers can return to their routines. Élodie’s family cannot simply return to life before that night.
Her two-year-old daughter needs her mother. Her husband is living through fear and uncertainty. Their needs must matter just as much when the cameras leave and the headlines change.

The government must account for its commitments. Ministers must support the family while respecting the independence of investigators and prosecutors. Justice must follow the evidence, free from political pressure or protection.

The sergeant faces provisional accusations of using a firearm to intimidate and causing involuntary injuries through negligence. The DPP says important evidence remains outstanding and that the evidence currently available does not support a provisional attempted-murder charge. That is a preliminary assessment, not the conclusion of the case.

I want the investigation completed properly, charges supported by the full evidence and consequences proportionate to whatever wrongdoing is proven. Suspension alone cannot substitute for criminal accountability.

The law already provides serious penalties. Section 37 of the Firearms Act criminalises using, displaying, aiming or firing a firearm with intent to intimidate, with a maximum fine of Rs 100,000 and imprisonment of up to 15 years. It recognises a defence of lawful protection of oneself or another person.

The question is whether the law will be enforced fully and fairly when the accused wears a uniform.
The police’s own published ethics require justified force, the minimum force necessary and personal accountability for acts and omissions. Police leadership must explain how those standards were upheld or breached at Camp-Levieux.
This case comes amid other troubling reports: officers arrested in investigations involving alleged drug-importation conspiracies and fraud, alongside sworn allegations concerning planted drug evidence. These remain allegations, not convictions. Citizens deserve credible investigations, clear reporting of the outcomes and safeguards against further abuses.

The government has announced tougher penalties for serious motoring offences. Road safety matters. Citizens deserve equally visible determination when police powers are allegedly abused. Respect for the law must apply to those who enforce it as firmly as it applies to everyone else.

Then there is water.
In September, approximately 13,000 households in Rivière-Noire and Le Morne were reported to be receiving intermittent supply. People are working, raising children and managing their homes without dependable access to a basic necessity.
Meanwhile, villas, apartments and holiday properties continue to be developed. I cannot quantify their contribution to the shortage. But the government and planning authorities must answer a straightforward question: how do they establish that infrastructure can support additional demand while existing residents struggle?

Publish those assessments. Explain the investment required, who must fund it and when residents will see improvements.

The government has announced emergency water measures. The minister responsible and the CWA must provide clear timelines, measurable progress and transparent explanations of how scarce supplies are allocated.

In 2026, being able to shower, cook and use a toilet should be a dependable part of daily life. Citizens should not have to organise every day around whether their taps will run.

I do not wish for this situation to become more violent or destructive. I want children in school, workers safe and people’s homes and livelihoods protected.

I also want those in power to understand that public anger cannot be answered with reassurance alone.
Enough is enough. Give people honest answers. Honour your commitments. Investigate alleged wrongdoing independently. Deliver meaningful consequences where it is proven. Show improvements that people can see in their daily lives.

Trust has to be earned.
Élodie’s family deserves lasting support. Every Mauritian deserves reliable water, safety and equal treatment before the law.

She was coming home from work.
We must not let her story become another tragedy followed by sympathy, official promises and then silence.

Hey staying in Mauritius kiteboarding and my group is reporting people getting robbed by machete gangs in la gaulette today + road blockages and gas station riots / gang activity. My wife and newborn are currently separated from me and sheltering in place today.

Can anyone link me some Whatsapp groups where I can keep an eye on the situation with first hand news reports?

Hey everyone!

My wife and I (both 36, from Croatia) are heading to Mauritius this November for 15 nights, and we couldn't be more excited!

We've decided to split our stay between three different parts of the island to experience as much as possible:

* 6 nights – Pointe aux Canonniers

* 5 nights – La Gaulette

* 4 nights – Blue Bay

We'll have a rental car for the entire trip, so we're happy to explore, take spontaneous detours and discover places off the beaten path.

A little about us: we're a fairly active couple who love the ocean, nature, wildlife, snorkeling, hiking, local culture and, perhaps most importantly, GOOD FOOD! We're much more interested in authentic experiences than luxury resorts or overly commercial tourist attractions.

We've already started researching the obvious highlights, but we'd love to hear from locals and people who've actually explored the island.

A few questions for you:

1. Hidden gems: What are some places that genuinely surprised you? Beautiful beaches, waterfalls, viewpoints, villages or anything that doesn't appear on every "Top 10 Mauritius" list?

2. Snorkeling & marine life: Where are the best spots to see healthy reefs, colourful fish, turtles or other marine life? We'd especially appreciate recommendations for ethical, wildlife-friendly experiences.

3. Food, food, food: Where do locals actually eat? We're looking for everything from tiny street food stalls and family-run restaurants to amazing seafood and traditional Mauritian dishes. What foods should we absolutely NOT leave without trying?

4. Nature & wildlife: Any favourite hikes, nature reserves, botanical gardens or opportunities to observe wildlife responsibly?

5. Culture & local life: Markets, small villages, festivals, music, historical sites or experiences that would help us better understand Mauritius beyond its beaches?

6. November tips: Anything we should know about visiting at this time of year? Weather, sea conditions, mosquitoes or anything else?

One more thing: We've recently been reading about water shortages and some protests on the island. How are things looking from a local perspective? Is there anything visitors should be aware of, particularly around the areas where we'll be staying?

We're not trying to tick off as many attractions as possible. We'd rather have a few unforgettable experiences, meet interesting people, eat incredible food and get a real feel for the island.

And if there's one place, experience or meal you wish every visitor knew about, we'd absolutely love to hear it!

Thanks in advance for any tips. Really looking forward to discovering your beautiful island!

Hey everyone,

I’ve been seeing reports about water shortages, protests (especially around Phoenix, Camp-Levieux and other areas), road blockades, and some tensions with the police over the past few days. There was also the recent shooting incident involving a young woman in Camp-Levieux that seems to have added to the tension.

For those of you living in Mauritius:

How is it actually looking on the ground right now?

Are the protests still ongoing / spreading?

How bad is the water situation in your area?

What’s the general mood among people?

Just trying to get a clearer picture from people who are actually there, beyond the headlines. Appreciate any updates or perspectives. Stay safe.

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