With a car, you can easily visit Mauritius, an island nation in the southwest of the Indian Ocean, and during your trip to know a foreign culture and the many sites of the country. On an area of about 2,040 km2 live about 1.3 million people, of which just under 170,000 in the capital Port Louis. The official language of Mauritius is English. The island is situated around 9000 km of Madagascar, the French overseas Department of Réunion is located in the West, to the North, the Republic of Seychelles is. If you want to explore the island with a hire car, the car hire companies that you have selected is of economyhirecars.com available is available in all major cities.
The island State of Mauritius consists of two large and several smaller islands. The capital of Port Louis is located on the largest island of Mauritius. Extensive reefs comprise some of the smaller islands rise retire around this island. These include, inter alia, amber Iceland, round Iceland and gunner's coin. The second largest island of the State is Rodrigues and has 40,000 inhabitants. Together with the Overseas Department of Réunion, Rodrigues and Mauritius among the Mascarene Islands, a group of Islands, which has been discovered by the Portuguese Navigator of Pedro Mascarenhas. With your rental car, you can take great trips along the coast and discover the unique nature of the island.
About two-thirds of the inhabitants of Mauritius come from the Indian subcontinent, while most of the last third to the so called Creoles. People are known as Creoles, whose Vorfahren immigrated to the European colonies in Africa and to America. Many arose from different mixed groups with different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, which were referred to as Creole or be. About two per cent of the inhabitants on the island are of Chinese descent and only a small part belongs to the white minority.
Culture in Mauritius is a reflection of the colonial time of the country and very in many traditions and customs of the locals. Elements of France, India, the Netherlands and the Creoles are visible especially in the cuisine of Mauritius. But also in many other areas of culture, sports, music, literature, shows a mixture of influences from the two colonial powers, as well as from Asia and Africa.
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