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South west of the Caudran Waterfront you will find the Blue Penny Museum.
The museum belongs to the Mauritius Commercial Bank and was opened in 2000.
It has a very nice collection of art, maps and stamps. The story about the first Mauritian stamp is very well documentated.
It really is worth visiting.
Updated Apr 4, 2011
Phone: 210 8176
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Pamplemousse is a halfday-excursion from Port Louis, a wonderfull tropical garden with the biggest waterlillies on earth and some other plants that you will hardly see somewhere else. Talipot Palmtrees are another attraction there and they will bloom only once, after 30-40 years of just growing. There will be millions of small blossoms then on top, the branches of the blossoms up to 6 meters high. After about 1 year the fruits will be ripe, they will fall down and the tree will die.Talipot Palms are originally growing in Sri Lanka and on the indian Malabar-coast, the leaves will have a diameter of up to 5 meters.
Read more about this place in my Pamplemousse-page !
Updated Feb 3, 2011
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The blue-penny-museum
shows the most famous stamp on earth,
BUT only for a few minutes each day because they are afraid that the colors would fade away or what-ever. They let you in all day long and also take your money, BUT only those visitors that come within some 30 minutes at lunchtime will get to see the most famous stamp on earth. Some other sources state that the stamps are shown only for 10 min. each hour.
Photography is forbidden inside there as well, and this is why I also posted this museum as a tourist-trap. What else is there to see ? Not really much, a few documents about the history of Mauritius, mostly faksimile-prints etc.
Updated Feb 3, 2011
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The Governor`s House is a large building at the end of the palmtree-boulevard. The building is surrounded by a high fence and in front of the building you will see a statue of Queen Viktoria. From the Governor`s House it is just a short distance to Place Nelson Mandela with some interesting, old buildings and the great theatre.
Updated Feb 2, 2011
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Caudan Waterfront is the name of a great boulevard directely at the townside of the port. The large cruiseships will dock opposite of it and the only 2 ways to get to Caudan Waterfront from there is the tiny ferryboat (read more about it in my Danger-tips!) or you walk all around the bay.
At Caudan Waterfront you will find the windmill, some cannons, a wide boulevard, hundreds of shops and cafes, restaurants and also the Blue Penny Museum.
Updated Feb 2, 2011
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Place Nelson Mandela is one of the most beautiful places in the heart of the old part of St. Louis and there you will find these great street-lights, next to the theatre and some other great buildings in the old colony-style.
There might be some trafic-jams close to the port, but in this part of town there is almost no cartrafic at all.
Updated Jan 31, 2011
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These are the old market-halls, dating back to the end of the 19th century, obviously a construction by Gustave Eiffel and it is now used by boutiques, souvenir-shops and cafes with a good view of the port-area and it is certainly a great place to relax.
Updated Jan 31, 2011
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One of the cannons of Fort Adelaide is placed on the car-parking in front of the citadel and so you can take a closer look at it, even when you will have only a few minutes up there. Mauritius became a british Colony in 1810 and Fort Adelaide was built in 1840, so that cannon is about that time as well I guess.
Updated Jan 31, 2011
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The mosque of Port Louis Unfortunately this mosque is not a place to visit for non-muslems, but it looks interesting and quite impressive already from outside and so I took these photos while passing by in our tourbus.
In Mauritius you will find a peacefull co-existance of Hindus, Christians, Muslems and Buddists.
Updated Jan 31, 2011
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the horse-racing-track was a really big surprise for me, because it is a giant area dedicated for these sports, you will see it in the background when enlarging my main photo.
This horse-racing-track is a typical "heritage" from the british colony they once were, but I dont know whether they still have races there.
Updated Jan 31, 2011
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