Caves

While you will be able to arrange hiking excursions independently. it is probably better to do so through a reputable local tour operator, such as MauriTours, speak to your operator about places like Black River Gorges, Combo Forest or Bassin Blaise - all of which have great potential as hiking venues.The Mauritian mountains don't require any special skills and you need only an average level of fitness to attempt them.

Tam Tam Tours is the product name for travel through southern Africa, where small groups - maximum 12 people - and one expert guidance of great importance. Tam Tam Tours provides quality tours at this time of 19 to 21 days to South Africa and Namibia. They offer the interested traveler had exclusive experience in nature and wildlife parks, in local village communities and historic sites. Stay mainly in authentic 3 and 4 star hotels and / or lodges. Due to high demand and the clear appreciation of the traveling public in 2006 extended this offer.

From the la Pirogue, divers are taken to some 20 sites. Very useful for beginners is Aquarium, a rocky reef area with plenty of angelfish, kingfish and butterfly fish plus lots of wire coral. Watch out for the stonefish. It goes to 15m. This is a site where night dives are conducted for experienced divers.

For some cave diving, try the Cathedral - a huge underwater cave in which lionfish, kingfish and squirrelfish are common. For experienced divers there is Mana - a deep dive of 47m on rock faces. Impressive emperor angelfish, white tipped reef shark and shoals of game fish are present.

Rodrigues, 18 kms long by 8 kms wide, is set in the monochrome blue of a typical postcard scene representing some 200 square kilometres of lagoon. Rodrigues is remote, a part of Mauritius but 550km further east and covers 108sq km, the size of the British Channel Island of Jersey. The coral reef is as far away as 7 kms in some parts. Rodrigues is the smallest of the Mascarenes and of the most recent volcanic origin (some 1½ million years ago). It is surrounded by 14 satellite islets.

There are several good scuba-diving locations around Rodrigues, but there is no diving school or public-use compressor on the island, and you need a boat. The best dives are off Pointe Colon and Pointe Roche Noire, on the east coast, and off Pointe Palmiste, on the west. Baladirou, at Pointe aux Comes, is also a good spot. Cotton Bay Hotel has a diving centre which is also open to nonresidents. Henri Tours can also organise diving trips.