With one of the world's most active volcanoes, the highest mountain in the Indian Ocean, lush, primeval forests, vast natural amphitheatres and sweeping, golden beaches, Réunion has all the ingredients for a uniquely exciting island holiday. Réunion is ruggedly beautiful, an island of contrasts. Three amphitheatres dominate the topography and the climate is temperate in the mountains.

The east coast is humid, with verdant, tropical vegetation and wild, black volcanic beaches, whereas the west coast is generally dry, hot and sunny. Réunion is a French department and it has both the most sophisticated nightlife in the Indian Ocean and some of the best hiking. The island caters for almost every sporting interest, including canyonning (abseiling in waterfalls), paragliding, horse-riding, and mountain biking.

The coral reefs off the lively west coast town of St Gilles les Bains attract scuba-divers while the famous 'left hand waves' of nearby St Leu beckon surfers from around the globe. The bay of St. Leu, (2 km long from the Pointe des châteaux to the Pointe au sel) boasts a coral reef dotted with several very different dive sites (moorage, drift dive, wrecks, drop-offs or coral slopes) accessible in only 15 minutes.

Here you will find coral reef marine life like lionfish, leaf fish, stonefish, clownfish, in a maze of canyons typical of volcanic formations. Further out, along breathtaking drop-offs, you may meet pelagic fish such as tunny, grouper, jackfish on virtually every dive.