Mid-January/February: Thaipoosam Cavadee. Tamil festival and ceremony, including prayers, colourful processions and impressive penitence rites with needles
February/March: Maha Shivaratree. Hindu festival with the popular pilgrimage to the sacred Grand-Bassin lake
12 March: National holiday
August/September: Ganesh Chaturthi. Hindu festival – a fortnight’s worth of processions with sea burial of statues
October/November: Divali. The Hindu light festival where the streets are scattered with oil lamps