Discover the landscape at your own pace
Cilaos and Salazie offer different approaches to reliefs. Accessible views and short walks can also make a nice stay.
Travel Ideas for the MeetingTravel in Réunion.
Travel in Réunion.
The island in relief.
Circus, volcanic landscapes and creole flavours. It is an island where you choose both your pace and your route.
At every wish, his journey
Which walks, for what walking ability?
The Meeting allows you to mix nature and cultural discovery without making every day a sporty challenge. The choice of bases and walks gives the measurement of the stay. Mountainous roads and weather require flexibility.
These ideas help you to choose a direction. Caroline then studies with you the steps, links and possible benefits for your dates.
Places, atmospheres and desiresThe Circus The volcanic landscapes The West and Creole Culture
What you come to find.
Change the scenery
A day to the landscapes of the Piton de la Fournaise is prepared with access conditions. The volcano activity is not scheduled and routes can be changed.
Keep time to enjoy island life
More markets, tables and days allow balancing outputs. The choice of a coastal base does not replace the checking of swimming conditions and authorized areas.
Drawing the right steps
Avoid travelling back and forth across the island
Routes in relief extend the days. A distribution of nights between several areas can be more pleasant than a single base with long repeated excursions.
An itinerary idea to personalise
A project can alter circles, volcanic landscapes and stay in the west. A combined with Maurice is another opportunity to study, counting flights, transfers and days on each island.
Discovery suggestions, to adapt to your dates and local possibilities. No group departure, accommodation or price is announced as confirmed on this page.
The guide to make your choices
Prepare your discovery.
Which period should you choose?
Weather changes with relief and period. The level of the stairs and the order of the exits must remain in accordance with local conditions and recommendations.
What will influence your budget
Transportation to destination, the category and location of the nights, travel on the site and accompanied visits are compared together. Give Caroline a cover and your priorities: the project can be adjusted by playing on the steps, comfort or duration, before you stop the services.
Before booking
The formalities and conditions of access are checked for your nationality, your situation and the scheduled dates. Updated practical information is to be consulted with the competent authorities; the report describes the services effectively offered.
Before you launch
Your questions about Réunion.
Can we find the meeting without a big walk?
and yes. The trip can prefer accessible landscapes, cultural visits and short walks. The conditions of access and the effort requested are specified for each exit.
How can I plan my Réunion trip with Odyssée Voyages?
Contact Caroline by phone or by email with your dates, duration, number of travellers and priorities. A first study allows to clarify the possibilities, before any detailed proposal.
Are these ideas matching an already scheduled accompanying start?
not to. This page is an inspiration for a personalized project. The accompanied departies actually published are presented in the accompanied travel section, with their own information.
Take discovery further
Experience Réunion’s mountains at the right scale
A circus in the morning, a volcanic landscape, a creole market and the ocean give the desire to discover everything at La Réunion. However, the relief transforms travel. Dividing the nights and choosing the trips according to the desired effort allows you to build pleasant days, away from a panoramic race.
The island is not reserved for the great walkers. Gardens, villages, views and short walks also make up a varied stay. The perfume of a market or a creole facade brings a different reading, provided that it clearly distinguishes day-to-going and more accessible discoveries.
Two directions to shape your journey
What thread will connect your itinerary?
Ideas for discovery to personalise according to your dates, pace and local possibilities.
Salazie, the south and volcanic landscapes
Salazie offers a first approach to the reliefs, with its vegetation and the houses of Hell-Bourg. Staying there helps to avoid a quick return from the coast. Walks are chosen with their profile and the time conditions, rather than with the only distance announced on a map.
The south and the volcano region bring a more mineral decor. The road to the Piton de la Fournaise can be a discovery in itself. Access and possibilities of walking depend on conditions; volcanic activity or open view cannot be scheduled.
Cilaos and a coastal base in the west
Cilaos can form a real stage, then associated with the west coast. Its village, landscapes and roads allow different days. The road is part of the choice and must correspond to the comfort of the travellers, rather than be reduced to a simple connection.
A coastal base gives more free days and another access to Creole culture. Markets and cuisine bring content to rest. The presence of the ocean is not enough to define the baths: the permitted places and appropriate uses must be specified for the stay.
The difficulty of each walk
The length, the ground and the unlevel look together. A short walk can remain demanding; a day of accessible landscapes is a real alternative, not a default choice.
Change base for a reason
Two or three coherent implantations limit the returns. A single address is not necessarily more resting when discoveries impose daily long roads in both directions.
Keep some flexibility
Local clouds and conditions make the landscapes evolve. A modular tour order allows you to enter a better window without making the entire stay dependent on one scheduled morning.
Give the journey the right pace
A dozen days can serve as a basis for changing reliefs, culture and rest. Walking fans will earn to give more time to a few sectors. A lighter day after a sustained exit also allows you to enjoy the selected villages and addresses.
Extend without spreading too thin
Maurice can bring another coastal atmosphere, with sufficient duration on both islands and a day of connection. The meeting alone already offers a great diversity. A few nights in a second meeting region can be more satisfying than a too short international extension.
Continue the discovery
Other horizons to explore.
At Perpignan and at distance all over France
What if your next Odyssey began here?
Share your wishes with Caroline. Together, let us give a direction to your next trip.