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Getting There and Away By sea

Getting There and Away By sea - Rodrigues Island in Mauritius
The ship "Mauritius Pride" runs regular trips from Mauritius. Tourists are not expected to go by ship and first class cabins are difficult as they are usually taken up by officials. There is also second-class. The voyage takes two days from Mauritius to Rodrigues but only one day for the return.

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  • MSC Coraline Ship Agency Ltd.

    The MSCL CORALINE Ship Agency Ltd was established as a subsidiary company of the Mauritius Shipping Corporation Ltd (MSCL) which has been established in 1986 as a private government company to initially monitor the freight costs of the M/S "Mauritius" on Rodrigues Trade.

    The MSCL was also acting as a ship agency to ships carrying cargoes for the account of the State Trading Corporation - a parastatal organisation responsible to import rice, petroleum products and cement.

  • Getting There and Away By air

    Rodrigues is linked by air only with Mauritius; it has no international air services of its own. Two Air Mauritius flights with 48 seater planes are scheduled daily. The main aircraft serving the island is the ATR72 of Air Mauritius. There are daily flights to Rodrigues Island.

    The journey lasts for one and a half hour and the plane leaves the island only forty-five minutes later after having landed. There is no refuelling and you can watch your luggage being loaded as you move to board the aircraft.

  • Rodrigues Island

    Rodrigues Island, Mauritius
    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.

  • Rodrigues Island in Mauritius

    Rodrigues Island in Mauritius

  • Tourist Office - Rodrigues Island

    La Residence
    Rue de la Solidarite
    Port Mathurin
    Rodrigues Island via Mauritius
    Port Mathurin
    12345
    MAURITIUS
    mariana.rodrigues@orange.mu
    www.tourism-rodrigues.mu
    Tel: +230 832 0276
    Fax: +230 832 0174

  • Travel in Rodrigues Island

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  • Diving - Rodrigues Island

    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.

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