Reunion island – Background
Reunion island
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Welcome to Reunion island

I heard about Reunion island a few years ago and since then its in the back in my mind, kind of "on hold". Towards the end 2014 I had a few vacation days left which I needed to utilize before they expire, so I looked for a suitable destination.

I looked for something not too "wintery" so Europe was not an option and I'm also not the type that really into just beaches. This is when I said "Reunion !"

Reunion map

The island itself has a main road which surrounds it and a few other roads which go inside, but like you can see below for example Cilaos and Salazie, 2 of the main destinations, look close to each other but there's no road that connects them.

The main tourist attractions in the island are its hikes, I think there are more than a hundred… Generally speaking there are green areas and there are dry areas near an active volcano in the south east part of the island.

The island itself is part of France with all its meaning – people speak French, the currency is Euro and so on. This is when I used my basic French which I learned (and forgot) in high school :).

After a 10 hour flight from Paris I landed and went to get my rented car. I got this paper with many scratching markings but other than that it was fine. The problems started when I asked how to get to my destination, Cilaos. The lady at the desk said its quite far and when I asked how much time it should take she said about 1.5 hours, so I thought its not that bad… boy was I wrong :(.

There wasn't any decent map and my phone, although it had a local SIM, did not have a signal so I was on my own. The problem is that I have a terrible sense of direction… I started driving and every once in a while stopped to ask people for directions. Everyone looked at me like I'm some crazy person.

Eventually I got the right direction and was thrilled about it but then I had to leave the highway in order to go start climbing. The curves seem to be never-ending and the fact that I had manual gear didn't help at all ! Not only that there lots of curves, their vertical angles were just impossible.

At around 12:30 I arrived at the city and found my hotel but discovered the room won't be available before 14:00. I was soooo tired after a long flight and another 4 hours of driving that all I wanted at this point was to take a shower and rest. Instead I had to go to have lunch.

Eventually after resting a little bit I checked if there's any short hike around, so I can still make something out of this day. I found one which was a bit risky from time perspective but I did it anyway. For some reason I had a feeling it won't be that good and sure enough, I was supposed to see some waterfalls but there were none, I didn't even take a picture :(.

Hoping for a better day tommorow

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