Arrival at Roland GARROS airport. You will be welcomed by our representative and given all your itinerary details during an informative meeting. Post your welcome to Reunion Islands, you will be transferred to your hotel in Sainte-Maria.
Breakfast and start of your Reunion Islands Tour!
You will be picked up from your hotel around 08:30 to travel across the western region seeing some of the most magnificent cliffs along the coast. This includes the upward travel towards Plaine des Cafres Plateau and then to La Grande Ferme. Then witness the 20+ kms of puzzling valley that has some amazing geographic terrain. The road finally leads to the Commerson crater. Continue to explore the various amazing sites and have lunch at a local restaurant before return to the hotel around 5PM.
Breakfast and leisure time at your Hotel to enjoy its infrastructures, such as the beautiful swimming pool or/and the spa… overnight.
Breakfast and hotel check-out and departure to the Cirque of Cilaos.
The first interest of this excursion is the pretty village of La Rivière Saint-Louis,at the bottom, the entrance of the Cirque. The pleasure starts with the road that plunges onto the bottom of Saint-Etienne’ river. This very picturesque road built in 1932, leads you to a particular beauty spot, a geological curiosity. Cilaos is the most south and driest cirque of the three. The sky is more frequently clear there and its slopes have fewer waterfalls. In 1845, a path with difficult access is opened to pedestrians and oxes. In 1896, the thermal baths set up and, as far as a suitable road for vehicles was built, the journey to Cilaos was achieved on a “sedan chair” but Cilaos village is situated at 1200m! The ascent by the “400 bends road” offers exceptional lookout points with breathtaking views of the several hamlets. Lunch free in a typical restaurant of the village…. At the end of the day you will head for the 5 star Akoya hotel In Saint-Gilles-les-Bains, on the sea front region. Hotel check-in for 2 nights including breakfast and dinner.
Breakfast and EXPERIENCE an unforgettable moment flying over, what is the most UNIQUE in Reunion island. Indeed Reunion island is world heritage listed, for 2 reasons its bio diversity but above all for its amazing landscapes. You will be able to access and contemplate those mountain walls called “remparts” aswell as the numerous waterfalls. The “Iron whole” a deep throat showing a bouquet of cascades, in this aspect is the most impressive sites you would never see else way. If you are lucky on the way back, you could observe humpback whales, which are used to giving birth in the warmer waters of the Indian Ocean in this season of the year. In the afternoon get on board a litle cruise to enjoy a romantic sunset cruise. You will gently follow the coast to get another angle of discovery. The reef will offer itself to your eyes and you will have a new chance for observing the humpback whales …These activities need to be discussed and arranged on the spot with our representative on arrival. Return to hotel. Dinner & overnight.
Breakfast and go to the kingdom of the fresh water.! This region abounds in activities, it is the economic lung of Reunion. Once exceeded the thirteen kilometers of the famous road to the coast, the passage by the administrative center with its buildings dating the time of the East India Company, its airs of the metropolis and its bourgeois charm, will give way in green fields of saint Marie’s sugar cane. Near the East, the phallic and colorful architecture of the Indian temples will delight the first looks. The senses will be tested severely. Aromatic pods are for the program: the exploitation of mister Rouloff’s vanilla plants, the epic of his panniers and all the sharpness of its preparation, such of balms delicious, will invade your senses until the drunkenness during this discovery (optional visit). The access to sales is a succession of surprising landscapes, the green is omnipresent. One thousand essences, one thousand waterfalls, one thousand flowers will paper roads until the top, until near one thousand meters. The village which honors the governor of Hell, is in itself, a whole museum of Creole architecture: acute ridgepoles, shingles of tamarind, delicious valances and other opening “Z”, will request ceaselessly your will be on drugs and cameras. The optional visit of the ” House Folio ” is a moving journey the past, past when ” top of shape ” and the ” tails of magpie ” revolved around thermal springs. Lunch free in a typical restaurant of the village….At the end of the day return to the coast, to your Hotel. Dinner an overnight
Breakfast and take the whole day to relax on the beach or in the hotel infrastructures.You will be allowed to remember the key moments of your Reunion island adventure…Around 5:00 pm hotel check-out and transfer to the airport for your departure flight.End of services !
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If your needs are more complex plan,then this process can take a little longer. At the same time if you’re eager to travel ASAP then we can get you from enquiry to flight within a matter of hours.
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