I was there in 1978.
I had a run of luck at their casinos, they had five.
I borrowed 20 dollars on ship (I was in the Navy at the time) and for five days the casinos paid for hotel rooms, beach bungalows actually, not just for me but three other friends as well.
The ship wouldn’t convert Mauritian money to US dollars and I had a huge bundle of Rupees.
So the night before we left I bought a fireworks store and we burned it to the ground.
Going back to the USS Samual Gompers I saw a poor fishing boy working a fishing net on a boat at the pier where the ship was docked and gave all the rest of the money to the kid.
Two months later we docked in Hong Kong and I found out about the world bank where I could have exchanged my money.
Years later in Vegas I lost lots of money believing that I still had the Luck or skill to win, I had neither.
The natives are beautiful people, black skin with reddish hair and brown eyes with hard flecks of bright blue which is quite stunning.