Route details
Duration: 55 minutes
Le Grandiose, our longest flight, lasting 55 minutes. This must-do flight lets you see all the tourist sites of Réunion Island from the air:
The Three Cirques, the Trou de Fer, the Takamaka waterfalls, the Grand Étang, the Bélouve & Bébour forest, the Piton de la Fournaise, the Rivière des Remparts, the Wild South and the lagoon of Saint-Pierre.
Highlights
- Fly over the Three Cirques of Réunion Island: Mafate, Cilaos and Salazie, where some hamlets can only be reached from the air or on foot.
- Discover the Trou de Fer and its dizzying waterfalls, a site only a helicopter allows you to admire
- Come close to the Piton de la Fournaise, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, its craters and its lava flows
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A 55-minute scenic flight, the longest of our tours, departing from Pierrefonds, Saint-Pierre
Sites you will fly over
Cilaos
Mafate
Salazie
Trou de Fer
Grand Étang
Takamaka gorges
Bélouve-Bébour primary forest
Piton de la Fournaise
Rivière des Remparts
Wild South
Saint-Pierre lagoon
Route
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Cirque de Cilaos
Take off toward the heart of the island and enter the Cirque de Cilaos, surrounded by its dizzying ramparts and dominated by the Piton des Neiges. -
Cirque de Mafate
The flight continues above the wildest and least accessible cirque of the island, with its isolated hamlets and its sharp ridges. -
Cirque de Salazie
Head north-east to fly over Salazie, the green cirque with its countless waterfalls, including the famous Voile de la Mariée. -
Trou de Fer & Bélouve-Bébour forest
A pass over the impressive chasm of the Trou de Fer and its waterfalls, bordered by the lush primary forest of Bélouve-Bébour. -
Takamaka & Grand Étang
A pass above the steep gorges of Takamaka and the suspended mountain lake of the Grand Étang. -
Piton de la Fournaise
Head south-east toward the lunar landscapes of the Piton de la Fournaise, one of the most active volcanoes on the planet. -
Rivière des Remparts
Descend the dizzying canyon of the Rivière des Remparts toward the southern coastline. -
Wild South & Saint-Pierre lagoon
A finale along the wild southern coast, flying over the turquoise lagoon of Saint-Pierre before returning to Pierrefonds.
The cirques
Each cirque is protected by a rampart carved by erosion into a thin wall of greenery, opening onto a grandiose setting, bathed in breathtaking light.
The waterfalls
Takamaka is a steep valley covered in lush vegetation in the east of Réunion Island, where the Trou de Fer, a chasm of the Piton des Neiges massif in the Cirque de Salazie, receives several dizzying waterfalls.
The volcano
The Piton de la Fournaise, which rises to 2,632 metres above sea level, is the active volcano of Réunion Island.
The lagoon
Fly over the lagoon of Saint-Pierre, its coral reef, its turquoise waters and the wild southern coastline of Réunion Island seen from the sky.
