Mauritius currency is called the Mauritian Rupee bearing the code MUR. Mauritius money is commonly known as the abbreviation as RS or Rp. Occasionally except in South Africa and India, Mauritian Rupee cannot be traded in any other country of the globe. But here almost all international currencies are excepted and valued.
The Mauritian rupee has been introduced in 1877. Before that Indian rupee, Mauritian dollar and sterling are mainly used in Mauritius exchanging. As per the seventh issue of Banknotes the Mauritius currency are like: Rs2000, Rs1000, Rs500, Rs200, Rs100, Rs50 and Rs25.
Visa and MasterCard credit cards are granted nearly everywhere in Mauritius. Diners Club and American Express are accepted in hotels and several other important places. Automatic tellers are accessible and in effective form in almost every township of Mauritius.
The Mauritian government establishes the exchange rates, and thus bank hop does not need here. Thus Mauritius permitted any king of foreign currency into the county. Travelers’ cheques is highly granted and counted as a major means of currency of Mauritius. Money swap is not a problem at all in Mauritius and they fetch a better rate of exchange than cash.
