Mauritius and Reunion
9 nights itinerary
Day 1 – ARRIVAL TO MAURITIUS AIRPORT
Arrival meet & greet at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoulam Mauritius airport, by your local english speaking tour guide and transfer to your hotel - Tarisa Resort & Spa 3* (or similar). Dinner & overnight.
Day 2 – CATAMARAN CRUISE & DOLPHIN WATCHING
Breakfast.
Depart for a full-day Catamaran Cruise with Dolphin Watching
Enjoy a BBQ lunch with drinks onboard
Snorkeling adventure at Crystal Rock
Transfer back to the hotel in the afternoon
Dinner & overnight stay at the hotel
Day 3 – EXCURSION TO SOUTH SCENIC TOUR
Full South scenic tour with a stop at the Trou aux Cerfs volcanic crater, followed by the duty free shop Adamas & Ship model Factory.
Next stop at the Grand Bassin sacred Lake.
Visit the valley of 23 coloured earth & its numerous waterfalls. (Activities such as quad, zipline at optional cost). Return to the hotel. Dinner and overnight.
Day 4– CASELA NATURE PARK ADVENTURE
Buffet breakfast
Full-day excursion to Casela Nature Park (entrance included):
Visit the Bird Aviary
Experience a 1-hour African Safari
Witness Big Cats up close
Thrill ride on the Tulawaka Roller Coaster
Afternoon return to the hotel
Dinner & overnight stay at the hotel
Day 5 –
Breakfast hotel check-out and transfer with your luggage to the airport to embark your flight to Reunion island.
After a 20 minutes flight, meet & greet at Roland Garros airport with your English speaking tour guide and transfer to your hotel.
Hotel check-in for 4 nights on HB basis. Dinner & overnight.
Day 6 – EXCURSION TO THE VOLCANO
Breakfast and – EXCURSION TO THE VOLCANO
The green, the red and the grey
Higher altitude: 2300 metres Temperatures: 15 to 23°C
What to wear: good shoes or walking boots, rainwear, pullover, mosquito lotion and sun lotion The freshness of the morning departures will be quickly replaced by the natural heat of volcanic sites. The route roads West unveils a coastline where the placid shores and steep escarpments take turns to St. Peter.
Here begins the ascent to the tops of the Plain of Cafres, and those of the Great Ferme. Heather, gentian, villages, pastures, cows, forests is the set of "Nez de Bœuf" to 2 070m. There lies a confusing valley 22km geological surprises.
The gaping hole in the Commerson crater is decorated with many rocks as question marks. This amphitheater dreamed geologists announced the first of the more surprising discoveries.
The culmination of the day will be taken at 2 360m above sea level.Those out of work finished, the scenery will be brutal. Plaine des Sables things to strike you as a challenge to the vastness, it's like a step back, we went from the Earth to the Moon. Return to the hotel. Dinner and overnight
Day 7 – EXCURSION TO CILAOS
Breakfast and – EXCURSION TO CILAOS–
CILAOS CIRQUE
An Island in an Island
Higher altitude: 1300 metres
Temperatures: 12 to 24°C
What to wear: good shoes or walking boots, rainwear, pullover, and sun lotion.
Departure to the south of the island. First stop at the « blower » along the rocky coast to admire a beautiful kind of white foam geyser, resembling a whale’s spout.
The pretty village of La Rivière Saint-Louis will be the last one before entering Cilaos Cirque. The pleasure starts with the road that plunges onto the bottom of Saint-Etienne’ river. This very picturesque road built in 1932, leads you to a particular beauty spot, a geological curiosity. Cilaos is the most southerly and driest cirque of the three. The sky is more frequently clear there and its slopes have fewer waterfalls. In 1845, a path with difficult access was opened to pedestrians and oxes. In 1896, the thermal baths were set up and, as far as a suitable road for vehicles was built, the journey to Cilaos was achieved on a “sedan chair” but Cilaos village is situated at 1200m!
The ascent by the “400 bends road” offers exceptional lookout points with breathtaking views of the several hamlets. When you finally reach the village dominated by the highest summits (the majestic Piton des Neiges 3070m, Grand Bénare 2896m, Trois Salazes 2121m), you’ll feel as if you were exploring a village of yore, with its old houses surrounded by flowery yards and gardens which in the hot season, look like a colourful artist palette: jacarandas with mauve shadings, dahlias, azaleas, roses, hydrangeas, mimosas… Cilaos is also famous for its hydropathy establishment, its magnificent embroidery, its wine (the only one produced in Reunion) and its lentils. Various walks invite you to go in search of this paradise. You reach the best view on the cirque by taking a forest path to "La Roche Merveilleuse" (or by car or by bus). From up there, you overlook the whole cirque, the village, the paths, and the forests… It is also great to discover the thermal baths, both the old vestiges dating back to the 19th century to which you can access via a picturesque road and the new facilities for spas, health and fitness. Dinner and overnight.
Day 8 – EXCURSION TO SALAZIE
Breakfast and – EXCURSION TO SALAZIE –
Departure heading for the North. This region abounds in activities, it is the economic lung of Reunion. Once exceeding the thirteen kilometers of the famous road to the coast, the passage by the administrative center with its buildings dating the time of the East India Company, its airs of the metropolis and its bourgeois charm, will give way in green fields of saint Marie's sugar cane.
Near the East, the phallic and colorful architecture of the Indian temples will delight the first looks. The senses will be tested severely. Aromatic pods are for the program: the exploitation of mister Rouloff's vanilla plants (suggestion), the epic of his panniers and all the sharpness of its preparation, such of balms delicious, will invade your senses until exhilaration during this discovery.
The access to sales is a succession of surprising landscapes, the green is omnipresent. One thousand essences, one thousand waterfalls, one thousand flowers will paper roads until the top, until near one thousand meters. The village which honors the governor of Hell, is in itself, a whole museum of Creole architecture: acute ridgepoles, shingles of tamarind, delicious valances and other opening "Z", will request ceaselessly your will be on drugs and cameras.
At the end of the day return to the coast, to your Hotel dinner and overnight.
Day 9 –
Breakfast & day at leisure to enjoy the beach. Dinner and overnight
Day 10 –
Breakfast & Hotel check-out and transfer to the airport for your departure flight from Reunion to Mauritius.
PACKAGE PRICING
3 star hotel option Ermitage Boutik hotel in Reunion and Tarisa hotel in Mauritius
4 star hotel option Ness By D Ocean hotel in Reunion and Ocean Creek hotel in Mauritius
*Note that those rates are indicative and will have to be revised at the time of firm confirmation
Inclusions:
*In Mauritius
- Meet & Greet at the airport by your english speaking tour guide and transfer to your hotel
- 4 nights on Hb basis at the selected hotel in Mauritius
- 3 full day excursions as described in your Mauritius itinerary with your english speaking tour guide
- TheBBQ lunch during the catamaran excursion
- Transfer back to airport
- The flight from Mauritius to Reunion on Day 5, at today rate that can however be modified until firm booking
*In Reunion
- Meet & Greet at the airport by your english speaking tour guide and transfer to your hotel
- 5 nights on Hb basis at the selected hotel in Reunion
- 3 full day excursions as described in Reunion with your english speaking tour guide
- The lunches during the 3 excursions
- The vanilla plantation entrance fee
- The flight from Reunion to Mauritius on Day 9, at today rate that can however be modified until firm booking
Exclusions:
* In both Mauritius & Reunion
- The personal expenses
- The drinks during the meals
- The tips
- Anything not mentioned in the program