The reality is far more exciting - with luxurious beachside stays, mountainous trekking and a very active volcano. Here’s four ways to experience an island that locals like to call ‘a wilder Hawaii’.
“He must have been smoking ganja at Pashupati, very dangerous,” chided the taxi-driver, who dropped me about a kilometer from the temple grounds as the roads were closed for the day.
"We are divided. Overseas we say we are Mauritian, but back home we go by labels - like me, everyone looks at me as Muslim. But I haven't gone to the mosque in years."
