[2] The district hosts the SSR botanical garden, or Jardin Botanique Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, renamed in 1988 in honor of the first prime minister of Mauritius.

The garden features spices, ebonies, sugar canes and many more.

It also features lotuses as well as 85 varieties of palms from Central America, Asia, Africa and the islands around the Indian Ocean.

The district is the home of the Pamplemousses SC local football team.

It also has the highest hill in the north, also being a volcano, Mount Piton, with the other part in the Riviere du Rempart district.