Excursions in Mauritius

The possibilities of excursions in Mauritius are now varied; especially as far as sea sports and activities are concerned. There is today a wider choice of sports activities and nautical excursions such as dives in submarines or on "Subscooters," and Kitesurfing. Same applies to the land sports and excursions with more offers for Quad biking and Mountain biking, hiking or horse riding and more original activities such as Zip-lines occurring in wonderful settings.

The assets of Mauritius in terms of sports activities remain nonetheless in the nautical activities, nearly all beach hotels having at the disposal of residents windsurfs, dinghies, pedal-boats and a power-boat of water-skiing.

Contrarily to the land excursions, we notice a slight slackening among the operators of nautical excursions. It's good news in a way as it's a form of shake-out, indirectly uplifting the quality of such excursions that, like for day-cruising in yachts, where an over-exploitation automatically takes part of the fun away.


The local authorities are progressively fine-tuning the regulations concerning these activities, namely as regards to the observation of dolphins, an over-exploited non-ecologic activity which we do not support, except if carried-out in Kayaks or other non-motorised crafts.

About the Regions
Typically, the East, West and North coasts are all suitable for nautical excursions taking place inside the lagoons and the North and West coasts are more appropriate of nautical excursions in the open sea. The choice for inland excursions is wider in the western part of Mauritius.

We invite you to flip through our guide and alphabetical list of the possible land and nautical activities and excursions proposed in Mauritius.

. Archery
. Boating (motor) (See Boat and yacht charters in Mauritius)
. Deep Sea Fishing
. Diving (Also Helmet Diving)
. Golf
. Hiking
. Horse Riding
. Hunting
. Karting
. Kayaking
. Kitesurfing / Kiteboarding
. Mountain biking
. Parasailing
. Quad biking
. Safari photo
. Sailing (Yacht & dinghy) (See Catamaran Cruises and motor boats in Mauritius)
. Skydiving
. Snorkelling
. Squash
. Surfing
. Tennis
. Water-skiing
. Windsurfing

Update January 2013