La Vieille Cheminée is a small agricultural farm surrounded by 2 rivers that border 150 hectares of forests, travellers’ palm, indigenous trees and 100 hectares of diverse plantations: sugar cane, palm heart, pineapples and bananas. The entrance to the estate is overshadowed by an ancient stone chimney – the last remnants of the village’s former sugar mill, dating from 1874.

Chamarel was first inhabited in 1723 by a French family established on the island, the de Chazal de Chamarel, who gave their name to the area.
275 years later, seduced by the beauty of the region, we enthusiastically poured all of our energy into its development and history: recreating childhood memories that spoke of days gone by, where we as children had the ocean as our swimming pool, sugar cane and rambling forests as our garden, and where our parents took the time to really live with their children, teaching them lessons about the slow passing of time.

La Vieille Cheminée’s small farm at Chamarel is a place unique unto its own. Exuding authenticity, it allows one to discover a way of typical Mauritian living where one stumbles upon the local culture and a gentleness of living inspired by its fauna and flora.

La Vieille Cheminée proposes overnight stays:

And offers to its guests:
(i) The free access to the property and its plantations.
(ii) Optional paying excursions: by the hour or full day.
(iii) The proximity of the village of Chamarel and its surroundings (the waterfall, the Colored Earth the Adventure Park etc.)
(iv) Bicycle rental without a guide, by the hour or full day.