Route des Cretes: Reunion Island
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🚗10 mapped stops
A volcanic island drive through the Indian Ocean's most dramatic landscape — from the Cirque de Cilaos to the active Piton de la Fournaise volcano. Reunion is a French overseas department where Creole culture meets tropical wilderness.
Paradas Neste Passeio (10)
- 1 Saint-Denis — Barachois The capital of Reunion sits on the northern coast beneath the towering wall of the Cirque de Salazie. French colonial architecture lines the seafront promenade.
- 2 Col de Bellevue The mountain pass offers the first views into the interior. The three cirques — Cilaos, Salazie, and Mafate — are enormous collapsed calderas surrounded by 3,000-meter peaks.
- 3 Cilaos — Thermal Town Reached via 400 hairpin turns, Cilaos sits inside a massive volcanic amphitheater. The thermal baths and Creole cuisine draw visitors down the winding road. The local wine — Cilaos wine — is unique to this cirque.
- 4 Route des Cretes — Ridge Road The ridgeline road traverses the spine between the Cirque de Cilaos and the coastal plain. Clouds swirl below you on both sides. On clear mornings, the views are limitless.
- 5 Bourg-Murat — Volcano House The village at the foot of Piton de la Fournaise. The Maison du Volcan museum explains the geology of one of the world's most active volcanoes — erupting on average every 8 months.
- 6 Plaine des Sables A vast, Mars-like plain of volcanic ash and scoria at 2,260 meters. The road crosses this otherworldly landscape — utterly barren, windswept, and eerily silent.
- 7 Pas de Bellecombe — Volcano Viewpoint The road ends at the rim of the Enclos Fouque — the massive caldera containing the active crater. On eruption-free days, hiking trails descend into the volcanic landscape below.
- 8 Piton de la Fournaise — Shield Volcano Reunion's active volcano rises 2,632 meters. The most recent major eruption created new land when lava flowed to the sea. The UNESCO-listed volcanic landscape is among the most dynamic on Earth.
- 9 Grand Anse Beach A white sand beach on the southern coast protected from shark-inhabited waters by a natural rock pool. Coconut palms and volcanic rock create a tropical paradise with visible volcanic geology.
- 10 Saint-Pierre — Seafront The island's second city on the sunny southern coast. Saturday morning at the Saint-Pierre market is a Creole cultural experience — vanilla, spices, tropical fruit, and Reunion's famous rhum arrange.
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