Top 9 Caves 再会での

グラン・バサンが遠すぎると感じる場合は、村から近くの滝まで歩くか、さらに西から川を遡ることができます。

Occasionally you have to duck low to get through, but otherwise it's easy to walk through. The tunnel continues beyond the entrances/exits on both the valley and mountain sides.

Unfortunately, the area of the rock face and therefore the cave is cordoned off due to rockfall.

The path is not easy to find or to use, but it is done without too much difficulty when it is not wet. Check the weather before going down into the river bed.

There are a number of entrances to the lava tubes on site, which can be explored on your own with a headlamp. An absolute highlight, highly recommended. Exciting & worth seeing👍👌

If you stand below the large boulders, the path goes up to the left, so that you can reach the entrance of the cave via a short climb.

The official and well-marked hiking trail ends in the riverbed about 300m before La Chapelle. From there you have to explore the path through the stones and rocks on your own. You cross the river at least 4 times. Don't forget your bathing suit, in order to "go" deeper into the chapel you have to swim.

Accommodating the first residents After two temporary occupations from 1646 to 1649 and from 1654 to 1658, the final settlement of the Bourbons in Saint-Paul began in November 1663. Louis Payen and his unknown companion leave the French trading post Fort Dauphin in Madagascar and settle on the deserted island with ten Malagasy servants (including three women). They bring tools, seeds and livestock with them. Thanks to the bay, naturally inviting to ships, and attracted by the fresh water near the shore, they settle at the back of the coastal strip, at the foot of the mountain slope, near a cave between the Ravine Bernica and the Cap de la Marianne . The first "Maroons" Disputes quickly arise between the two French and the Malagasy, which causes the latter to move towards the Hauts... the beginning of the story of maroonage (escape of the slaves into the mountains)... Two years later, Louis Payen leaves the island forever, while Etienne Regnault and twenty settlers from various professions settle the island of Bourbon... They settle on the edge of the cliffs, at the end of the pond, in the direction of today's Bassin Vital. The Malagasy people who left "maroon" finally return to the village of "Vieux Saint-Paul" to form the first roots of the Creole families of Bourbon. Today, the inhabitants of La Réunion know the place as "Cave of the First Frenchmen" or "Cave of the First Reunionese", but the cave had several names: "La Caverne" (which gave the neighborhood its name), "Caverne des Matelots ", "Caverne des Portugais" (after a lithograph by Antoine Roussin), "Hut of the Twelve Exiles" or "Cemetery of the Blacks" (approximately at this point on the Chandelier map from 1806)... Its official name today is La Grotte du Peuplement.