Cilaos - The city in the Caldera

Bonjour, 

CILAOS TIME!!!!!! Hiking in the skies.

But before, we had breakfast in a very cute patisserie in St. Gilles, called Loulou. Of course coffee and baguette...

Claudio and I drove to the center of the island today. Our route took us east next to the coast, where we had to stop several times to take pictures of course.

Here we start to drive north to the center of the island.

 In the middle of the island, in a very high caldera we found the city of Cilaos. We had to drive about 1 h up in the mountains, which was kinda strange. Sometimes there was just space for one car on the street and you had to honk before going around the next serpentine. I had the feeling of playing a computer game, because it was just left-right-left-right-left-right-honk-honk

At some point I got a little annoyed by that, but we made it to Cilaos safe. Up there we planned to do two hikes and we fulfilled our plan completely. So in the following you will see the pictures.

First some impressions of the city:

Banana Cake, which we had as a reward for our hiking :-)

The first hike was about 3 hours, with a yoga and MMA break. The trail was termed Bras Rouge.

 Here we asked two older men to take a picture of us, of course including the breathtaking panorama, but they just took a picture of us and said... BEAUTIFUL! We accepted the compliment and didn't ask for another shot haha

 For Elisa, there is another lesson of undangerous yoga :-)

 I was trying to throw another rock on top.

That was the first round of touring.

The second trip was just around 1 h and took us a little higher to get a nice view of the city, which is surrounded by the walls of the crater.