Our adventure starts right here—behind the façade of the factory building—with tales woven around the life story of sugar, for long the main product and activity on the island. Here will be found the roots of our people, going back five centuries, and the history of the island itself, and its varied cultures. It will be a reflection of our own society, a mirror in which we shall see ourselves and which we shall offer to the visitor so that he too may try to know us.
There are more ways than one to translate our intentions. One could say that the actual production of sugar is but “the top of the iceberg” since the word sugar conveys a multitude of various aspects. Within the rest of the iceberg lie the histories of the peopling of Mauritius, of the changes in its economy and commerce and of the agronomic study of sugar production.
The Sugar Adventure is for all ages—and as much for the sugar technician as for the historian, the simply curious or the knowledgeable, for the engineer or the tourist. It has been conceived so as to be of international, as well as local, interest.
It is the product of investment by promoters from the private sugar sector meant to be of service to all. Behind such a simple word as “sugar”, the Sugar Adventure has attempted to reveal the very soul of Mauritius.