The Spring Festival marking the Chinese New Year’s Day is celebrated in January or February. The houses are cleaned thoroughly and decorated in red. The dishes are the choicest ones to be found. Several delicious cakes are shared with friends and parents. Yet the most popular one remains the ‘Wax Cake’, prepared with rice flour and honey as ingredients Traditionally this festival offers a spectacular show. Chinese dragon dances in the streets of Chinatown, firecrackers are lit to drive away the evil spirits and prayers are said in pagodas to obtain divine protection.

Towards the end of January or in February, the Hindu community celebrates Thaipoosam Cavadee. Devotees predominantly of Tamil faith celebrate this festival, dedicated to Lord Muruga. On that day, the devotees have the body, the tongue and the cheeks pierced with needles. On their shoulders they carry the Cavadee, a small wooden arch that is richly adorned with yellow flowers and lemons. The arch also contains a milk pot, which will be offered to Muruga in the temples.

Each year to honour Lord Shiva, Hindu pilgrims dressed in white converge towards the sacred lake of Grand Bassin for Maha Shivaratree. They carry on their shoulders ‘Kanwars’ (structures of bamboo elegantly decorated with mirrors, small bells and coloured paper streamers), the devotees come from all over the island to pray on the shore of the lake. Then, they collect the holy water to be offered in temples.
The Holi festival, celebrated in March, is a highly colouful one. Red, yellow, green, orange, pink... a variety of colours to celebrate the victory of good over evil. The members of the Hindu community enjoy sprinkling these coloured powders diluted in water on relatives and friends.
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The most important festival of the Christian calendar is celebrated towards the end of March or in April. Easter commemorates the resurrection of Christ and Christians fast during 40 days prior to this celebration.

Ugadi celebrated in March or April is the Telegu New Year and it commemorates the day when the Creator started to create the Universe..

Ganesh Chathurti celebrated mainly by the Marathis, in August or September, honours the birth of Ganesha, God of wisdom.

For the Catholics, September 9 is the annual Pilgrimage of Father Laval. On the eve of that day, they flock to the shrine of Father Laval located at Sainte Croix in Port Louis. People of other religion also take part in this pilgrimage.