The North offers the advantage of fine beaches, a great range of accommodation and restaurants, water sports facilities, great shopping opportunities and entertainment. It was one of the first spots in Mauritius to welcome holidaymakers.
Beaches
Trou Aux Biches
Trou Aux Biches is a pretty white sandy beaches shaded by casuarinas trees. Novice snorkellers will enjoy the colourful reefs which can be easily reached from the shore.
Mont Choisy
It stretches north from Trou Aux Biches to Grand Bay in a shiny strip of silver sand curving along a turquoise bay.
Grand Bay
A shopping and leisure paradise, Grand Bay is also the place that Mauritians head for if they want a night out as it abounds with restaurants, bars and discotheques. Accommodation possibilities range from luxury resorts to small holiday hotels and even guesthouses. Grand Bay is one of the best areas for sailing, windsurfing and water skiing. The bay is also one of the favourite anchoring places for sailboats and the meeting point for day excursions on the islets around the main land.
La Cuvette
La Cuvette beach is now provided with adequate amenities.
Pereybere
This remarkable small cove halfway between Grand Bay and Cap Malheureux is one of the finest bathing spots on the island. Pereybere public beach is extremely popular because of its exceptional beach quality, its shopping facilities and its numerous restaurants and pubs.
Bain Boeuf
Cap Malheureux
Cap Malheureux, with its red roofed church, offers magnificent a view on the islets of the north coast. The village has a large community of fishermen.
