Mauritius

Did you know?

• 🥇Mark Twain wrote that Mauritius was made first, then heaven, and that heaven was copied from Mauritius.
• ✨The dodo lived only here — and was driven extinct within about 80 years of European arrival.
• 👥Has one of Africa's highest GDPs per capita and a stable multi-ethnic democracy.
• ✨Chamarel features the famous 'Seven Coloured Earths' — sand dunes naturally striped in 7 colors.
• 🏞Le Morne underwater 'waterfall' is an optical illusion of sediment flowing off the continental shelf.