Moka Town

Eureka House at Moka is an independent museum featuring antiques, furniture old lithographs and other objects from private collection. There is also public museum with collections of natural history, naval, historical and literary items, which came under the aegis of the Mauritius Institute.

Eureka la maison Créole in West Moka stands about 4km from Le Reduit, on the other side of the Port Louis Curepipe motorway, just off the road to Moka. This country house, lying under Montagne Ory, was restored and opened to the public in 1986 as a museum. It was built in the 1830s and purchased in 1856 by Eugene Leclezio, the first Mauritian Master of the Supreme Court. Like Le Rediut, and any of the properties around this area, it has terrific views across the river valley.

• Eureka House In Moka, Mauritius
• Historical Museum In Mohabourg, Mauritius. Tel: 230 6319329
• Mauritius Herbarium In Reduit, Mauritius

• Air Mauritius (MK)

  Air Mauritius Centre
  6 President John Kenedy Street
  Port Louis
  Mauritius
  Tel. Town Office (230) 208 7700; Airport Office (230) 637 3552
  Reservation: (230) 208 6878
  Ticket Office: (230) 208 7903
  Hotline: (230) 211 6060
  Fax: (230) 637 3266 (Airport Office)

• Air France (AF)

  Rogers House
  5 President John Kenedy Street
  Port Louis
  Mauritius
  Tel. Town Office: (230) 212 2666; Airport Office: (230) 637 3552

Away from the coast and almost directly south of Grand Baie is the Cultural Centre and Nature Park: Domaine Les Pailles - Ouest - Port Louis / Moka, also known as the Royal Botanical Gardens. Pamplemousses stretches for four hectares and features plants from all over the world - wild bananas, camphor trees, clover and nutmeg trees from Manila and huge water lilies, known locally as 'flan tins' as well as a number of palms. There is also an art gallery and a cemetery.