Reunion island – Cap Mechant & Grand Brule
Cap Mechant, The Azores
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After 2 nights in Cilaos I arrived Saint Pierre. Took me a while to find by hotel,  Le Jardin Mandaline, since the numbers on the houses in that street were kind of scrambled. The place belongs to 2 nice guys (and a dog – Kisko 🙂 ) so after I put my things in the room we started talking in English/French. I consulted with them on what to do and decided to go to "Grand Brule" on the east side of the island. They advised I should make a couple of stops on the way.

The first one was "Cap Mechant". It's a very wild open place where the sea meets the land in a form of a cliff. It reminded me a little bit of "Kilt rock" in the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The next stop according to the couple from the hotel was some waterfalls "only 20 minutes off the main road". I left the main road and the curves started coming … Just a reminder, only this morning I came through many curves coming from Cilaos, so I didn't feel like having more "fun". Anyway, I'm climbing with the road and don't see any sign for the waterfalls. I looked at the map and saw that the road seemed to end. When I asked some person there if he could show me where we were – it wasn't on the map ! The road was so narrow that it was almost impossible to turn around, however, the view was nice. I was driving between sugar canes and saw the ocean from time to time. I decided not to take any more "off road detours" so I could reach my main goal for the day on time.

I reached the "Grand Brule" area which is solidified lava flows. It's quite impressive. At first it looks like rocks but as the road continues you see how lave changes over the years.The youngest areas are vegetation free, the 5-10 years areas have basic vegetation and in the older areas you could see some plants. Along the road, every once in a while there are signs saying from which year is the lava. I continued with the road to reach Saint Rose where the lava circled a church (it didn't go inside !) .

I came back to the hotel and had a strong craving for pizza. They gave me a recommendation for "Mam'zelle pizza" not too far, but it was humid so when I reached there I was sweating. It was a small place so inside felt like being in a steam room, so I waited outside. It was a good pizza after all.

Got back to the hotel and set the alarm for 5AM !

More to read in my next post …

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