Gris Gris

Continue along the road past Le Nef and the Robert Edward Hart Museum and you come to grassy cliff top, which affords a view of the black rocky coastline where the reef is broken, and a path down to Gris Gris Beach. It is a popular spot for dangers of swimming here. Gris Gris is said to mean sorcery or black magic.

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La RocheQue Pleure
The rock that cries is a little further east along coast from Gris Gris and resembles a crying man. In fact it looks like the profile of Robert Edward Hart. Two pictures in the Robert Edward hart museum show the comparison in case you cant’t find the actual or black magic.
Souillac
Named after the Vicomte de Souillac, the island's French governor from 1779 to 1787, Souillac Like Mahebourg, is of little interest in itself. It is not particularly welcoming or helpful to visitors, probably because it is not used to getting them. Souillac seems a place that Mauritius likes to visit. Gris Gris and Robert Edward Hart’s house are popular school outings.
Telfair Gardens
More like a small municipal park than actual gardens, the Telfair Gardens are hardly an outstanding sight. But they are conveniently opposite the Bus Park in Soullic, on the road to the Robert Edward Hart Museum and Gris Gris. The gardens were named after Sir Charles Telfair, secretary to the English governor, sugar baron and superintendent of Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolan Botanical Gardens. You get a good view across the bay from Telfair to the graveyard at Cemetery Point, where Hart is buried.
Leisure and Entertainment
Beaches
No island on earth offers such a variety of beautiful beaches and lagoons. On the west coast are the public beaches of Tamarin, (well-known to surfers for its big waves), Flic en Flac, which provides a fine lagoon with shallow waters, Albion, pointe aux Sables, Baie du Tombeau and others. The northern coastline has many delightful beaches - Pointe aux Piments, famous for its underwater scenery, Trou aux Biches, Mont Choisy, one the most popular: Grand Baie, the main center for yachting, fishing, water skiing and Pereybere - probably one of the best bathing beaches.
Robert Edward Hart Museum
Robert Edward hart (1891-1954) was a renowned Mauritius poet, appreciated by the French and English alike. He wrote in French and translations of his poetry are hard to find. He lived out the last 13years of his life at Le Nef, a coral beach cottage about 500m east along the shore from the Souillac Bus Park. It was taken over by public in 1967 the bedroom and kitchens have been maintained. On display are copies and originals of Hart’s letters, plays, speeches and poetry, as well as his spectacles, pith helmet and fiddle.
Mauritius Museums
- Eureka House In Moka, Mauritius
- Historical Museum In Mohabourg, Mauritius. Tel: 230 6319329
- Mauritius Herbarium In Reduit, Mauritius
Excursions
The excursion is organized in a boat in the Tamarin Bay to meet the dolphin. Various tracks (of different levels of difficulty) are proposed which allow permanent contact with nature. Exciting opportunity to paddle from the mouth of the Grand River South East to a magnificent waterfall through impressive cliffs some 800 mts away. Forest of giant bamboos (some reach more than 15 m height!) The Grapefruit garden invites to the buccolic ballade, with the meditation. Eureka is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful creole houses of the Island at Moka.

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