- Length: 2 days/1 night
- Difficulty: easy to moderate
- Backpack: contains your gear and the picnic for the day only
- Start/end points: Pas de Bellecombe, Piton de la Fournaise - public transport is not available to get there
Rates 2021:
Organisation and guide for this trek of 2 days:
Individual | Formed group | |||
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1 pers | 2 pers | 3 pers | 4 pers | 5 pers |
344 € | 192 €/pers | 136 €/pers | 108 €/pers | 90 €/pers |
Rate upon request above 5 participants.
Additional costs:
one night in a lodge on a half-board basis (rate according to covid-9 plan)
the guide’s half-board package (rate according to covid-19 plan)
2 picnics (8 to 10 €/pers/day)
Day by day:
D1 – A day to explore the Piton de la Fournaise, approaching recent eruptions, volcanic pitons, lava flows. Ascent towards the largest crater at the top of the volcano, to get a point of view on the major collapse that happened in 2007.
Around 5-6 h walking, +500 m and -500 m
Dinner and night at the Volcano lodge.
D2 – Hike in the Plaine des Sables, ascent of the Piton Chisny (major cinder cone), observation of the ancient volcanism of La Fournaise (ash deposits, scoria and volcanic bombs, lava flows).
Around 3-5 h walking as you prefer