Day 1
Meeting at the airport. Check in at the hotel Saint-Denis. The comfort of the hotel is determined before the start of the tour (not included in the tour price). A walk through the historical center of the island’s capital - the magnificent architecture of the palaces of planters and slave owners, colorful markets for spices and souvenirs, the cathedral of the island and the oldest mosque in France, the botanical garden, the island’s history museum, the house where the famous pilot Roland Garros was born, a tree park, an old military man hospital, the main promenade of the island - the promenade of Barashva. Dinner at the city restaurant
Day 2
9.00 Departure from the hotel and transfer to the Salazi Volcanic Circus - one of the three circuses of the island, which is considered to be the most picturesque by right - dozens, and in the rainy season - hundreds of waterfalls are thrown from volcanic rocks covered with relict forests and captured by wild shoots of shushu - a favorite vegetable crop islanders. The multi-stage Falls of the Veil of the Bride and the highest waterfall in France - Cascade Blanche, incredible mountain panoramas, one of the most beautiful villages in France, the famous Creole architecture, unusual flora and rich history of the circus, which became a kingdom of runaway slaves for a hundred years, lunch in a Creole restaurant and a mini tracks to ancient thermal springs and a magnificent volcanic lake - Salazi circus is a separate small world that takes us to the fantastic world of the symbiosis of nature and man. After a walk along Salazi, we rise to higher up into the mountains - onto the volcanic plateau Plen de Palmistes - the gateway to the Reunion National Park, a favorite place for holidays and vacations of wealthy islanders - the most favorable climate in Palmist during the sultry tropical months. Located in a huge valley, on the northern slope of the Belouv Nature Reserve, Plen de Palmist was mastered at the end of the 18th century and owes its name to palm tree forests - the red palm tree, which is also loved by the islanders for their exquisite taste. Here the dense relict forests of tree-like ferns of the Paleozoic era begin, the subspecies “female” exists only at the Reunion. Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Plen de Palmistes
Day 3
7.00 Breakfast. 7.30 Ascent to the volcanic plateau Plein de Cafres - the nearest inhabited settlement to the volcano. Valley of runaway slaves, the name is translated from Malagasy. Observation decks over gorges and volcanic faults mix with the endless valleys that are called the “Reunion Alps” here. Transfer to the active volcano Python de la Furnes with stops on panoramic sites - over old craters and a lava river bed. Python de la Furnes is the pearl of the Reunion National Park, almost Martian landscapes and caldera scale are amazing, climate and flora change literally every meter and now you are driving through the desert from red volcanic lava, which has been thrown out by millions of years of one of the most active volcanoes on the planet . Track to a small crater in the caldera of an active volcano (one hour in both directions). The panoramic platform over the Grand Bassin gorge, where real hermits live, is the only very difficult path leading to the gorge. Descent from a volcanic plateau through the southern part of the island. Factory is a Roma museum. Transfer to the Entre Gorge, one of the most charming cities on the island. Check in hotel. Inspection of the city. Dinner and overnight at the Hotel in Entreux
Day 4
8.00 Breakfast. 9.00 Track in the stone gorge Bra de la Plen - the bed of the lava river of the extinct volcano Piton des Neiges. Picnic in the gorge. Ascent from the gorge and transfer to the volcanic circus Silaos - the road to this circus itself - is already an attraction and fully lives up to its name “Four hundred bends road”. Silaos, like most of the highlands, was discovered by runaway slaves, now here at the foot of the majestic volcano Piton des Neiges, there are many settlements along mountain peaks and plateaus, and some of them can still be reached only on foot. Thermal baths. Dinner. Overnight at Silaosa Hotel
Day 5
10.00 Departure from the circus Silaos and a sightseeing tour around the island:
- lower caldera of the Piton de la Furnes and lava tunnels rocky coast
- an old suspension bridge, at the time of construction in the 19th century it was the longest in world
- Catholic Cathedral of St. Lava
- Catholic Cathedral of St. Anne
- sea pirate cemetery
Check-in at a hotel in Saint-Gilles
Day 6
7.00 Breakfast. 8.00 Transfer to the helicopter port. Helicopter walk over the island - 55 minutes. Return to hotel
Day 7
Beach day. Self-examination of Saint-Gilles.
Day 8
Airport transfer