Grand Port District

Mauritius has only one airport and is named as the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport. It is located in Plaine Magnien in the district of Grand Port. The airport is one of the most beautiful airport of the ocean and is equipped with all sort of facilities such a duty free shop, tourist guidance office, money exchanges, transport to different areas of the island and all other facilities a traveler needs.

Grand Port is named after the village of Old Grand Port which is the actual place where the first Dutch landed and is also the first port of the island. The Vieux Grand Port Historic Site is located in the south east of Mauritius and encloses the ruins of the oldest stone structures ever built on the island. The Dutch headquarters were on this site from 1638 to 1710. A fortress was built, which they named “Frederik Hendrik”, in honor of their ruler. It is buried roughly one metre below ground level. Built by the Dutch and later taken over by the French, the town is a reminder of the colonial past of the island. In 1722, when the French occupied Grand Port, another lodge was constructed on the same site. It was their main center of activity prior to the beginning of the 19th century when it was transferred to Mahebourg.

Frederik Hendrik Museum, is found in the south east coast of Mauritius in the district of Grand Port on the Vieux Grand Port Historic Site, the cradle of Mauritian history. You can also view the ruins visible on the Site are of French origin, built on the Fort Frederik Hendrik, which was constructed by the Dutch in 1638. You can view many objects as a result of the ongoing archaeological excavation work on the site, undertaken by a group of Dutch researchers.

The National History Museum is situated at Mahebourg which is found in the district of Grand Port in a leisure park extending, on a bank of River. The National History Museum is well organized in an old French colonial country house built around 1772 and presently listed as a national heritage. Objects such as canons, mortars, part of hulk, bottles retrieved from the shipwreck La Magicienne in 1933 and 1934 by H.C.M. Austen, engineer at the Mauritius Railways are exhibited in the museum.

Le Val Nature Park is over 2,800 hectare is found at cluny in the district of Grand Port. It offers natural attractions such as spring water shrimps, eels and carps; anthurium and green houses, prawn ponds, deer park, monkeys, birds, endemic plants and animals.

Nestling in the Anse Jonchée hills, The Domaine du Chasseur allows nature-lovers to wander its 30km of nature trails of natural landscape and splendid hunting grounds covering an area of 1 000 hectares…

Since 16 years, Le Domaine du Chasseur proposes deer and boar hunting in one of the very last indigenous forests of Mauritius…

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