National Geographic Traveller - UK (2022-06)

MAURITIUS

Charles Darwin was among the fi rst naturalists to document the astonishing

bounty of this Indian Ocean idyll. Exploring in his footsteps reveals an

island every bit as ‘eminently curious’ as it was to him in 1836 — home not

only to an array of endemic species but also to a growing army of modern-

day conservationists, all working to preserve the sanctity of Mauritius’s

tropical beaches and waterfall-laced mountains

WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHS: RICHARD JAMES TAYLOR

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