Note: Our drive around Reunion was spread over several days, but it makes more sense to combine it into one post.
Day 1. The road trip started with climbing the curving roads leaving the capital Saint Denis
Descending back to sea level, we had a fantastic cruise on Reunion's "sunset boulevard" heading east
Days 2-3: Unless one sticks to the coastal highway, the roads in Reunion don't stay flat for long, a few kms inland one is already surrounded by huge mountains
with plenty of waterfalls everywhere:
Back on the south-east coast there is still plenty to see, like old bridges:
lava flows from the Piton de la Fournaise:
and dramatic seas-side cliffs.
Day 5: change of scenery: where sometimes driving in Reunion feels more like driving on mars (not that I have too much experience in that...)
Unfortunately our rental did not enjoy the roads of Reunion as much as we did and decided to abandon us at the most remote location on the island. Even though thinking back...maybe the little Fiat just wanted to spend more time at this splendid spot ...after all it can't be a coincidence it broke down exactly
HERE
...giving us enough time to enjoy the sunset (and the weather cooling down close to 0C) while the replacement car arrived.
Day 6. Just as driving up the roads towards higher grounds, descending down is also quite an experience, as the gigantic size of the continuous slope of the volcano's footsteps lie ahead of you:
Along the west coast a few other sights lined the road around the island as well such as colorful Tamil temples:
Day 7. With so much to do in Reunion (make sure to check out the posts about the
hike to the Volcano and the
ULM Flight over the island), there was little time left for the beach, but we "saved" a day for "walking" the beaches...
which are well suited for snorkeling (after all we could not just lie on the beach the entire day) :
Day 8. Then it was slowly time to drive back to the Roland Garros airport and fly back :-(
All our photos from Reunion
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