Route details
Duration: 35 minutes
Les Trois Cirques is a helicopter flight lasting 35 minutes. This flight lets you see all the rugged relief of the island, passing by the legendary Trou de Fer.
Highlights
- Fly over the 3 cirques of Réunion Island, Mafate, Cilaos and Salazie, where some hamlets can only be reached from the air
- Discover the Trou de Fer and its dizzying waterfalls, a site only a helicopter allows you to admire
Sites you will fly over
Cirque de Cilaos
Col du Taïbit
Cirque de Mafate and its hamlets
Cirque de Salazie
Trou de Fer
Route
Cirque de Cilaos
The flight begins over the Cirque de Cilaos, its dizzying ramparts and its hamlets perched in the heart of the mountains.
Cirque de Mafate
Cross over the Col du Taïbit into the Cirque de Mafate and its completely isolated hamlets, reachable only on foot or from the air.
Cirque de Salazie
Discover the Cirque de Salazie, the greenest of the three, its countless waterfalls and the Voile de la Mariée.
Trou de Fer
Fly over the Trou de Fer and its waterfalls plunging into a canyon that only a helicopter allows you to admire.
Return to Pierrefonds
The return leg heads straight to the south of the island and Pierrefonds airport.
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 Trou de Fer
The Trou de Fer, also called Trou d’Enfer, is a geological depression of the Piton des Neiges massif located in the Cirque de Salazie.
The volcano
The Piton de la Fournaise, which rises to 2,632 metres above sea level, is the active volcano of Réunion Island.
