All Saints Day
This is a Christian festival where people go to mass before going to leave flowers on the tombs.
This is a Christian festival where people go to mass before going to leave flowers on the tombs.
Indentured labourers came from India to replace the slaves as a source of cheap labour to work in the sugar cane plantation
Shivaratri is great festival of convergence of Shiva and Shakti.
Divali is celebrated in October/November and marks the homecoming of Rama after his victory over Ravana and also commemorates Krishna's destruction of the demon Narakasuran.
Kartika, Krishna Amavasya
Amavasya is new moon day in Hindu calendar.
Durgashtami fasting is observed every month during Ashtami Tithi of Shukla Paksha.
Panchak is created due to the union of 5 constellations or Nakshatras, called Panchak Nakshatras.
List of Purnima or Pournami days on Hindu Lunar Calendar.
Kartika, Shukla Purnima
Shivaratri is great festival of convergence of Shiva and Shakti.
Amavasya is new moon day in Hindu calendar.
The period is considered to be a bad period and marriages, housewarming are not held.
Panchak is created due to the union of 5 constellations or Nakshatras, called Panchak Nakshatras.
Durgashtami fasting is observed every month during Ashtami Tithi of Shukla Paksha.
Margashirsha, Shukla Ekadashi
Christmas Day is one of the biggest Christian celebrations and falls on December 25 in the Gregorian calendar.
List of Purnima or Pournami days on Hindu Lunar Calendar.
Like in many countries around the world, New Year in Mauritius is celebrated with a bang!
The period is considered to be a bad period and marriages, housewarming are not held.