Hiking- Rodrigues Island

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.

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

As the administrative, commercial and industrial hub of the island, Port Mathurin is the natural base for visitors.

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 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.