Saturday 6 October 2018

Daytime visit to Bois Rouge & Distillerie de Savanna

In the afternoon following my zip line experience, and almost three years to the day since I last visited the sugar cane refinery of Bois Rouge for a night-time visit, I found myself visiting the refinery for a visit during the day, followed by a tour of Savanna distillery, which I'd also already done (in 2014) but never just after the refinery visit (it wasn't cane harvesting season at the time). So here are a few photos in daylight, but for more information do check out the two blog posts at the bottom of this page. 








The whole visit takes two hours: 90 minutes of factory and distillery visit, followed by 30 minutes of rum tasting.


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Longest zip line in Reunion

On Wednesday I had the opportunity to try out the recently-opened zip line in the hills above Sainte-Marie, not far from where I live.

going down! (source)

At 766 metres it's the longest zip line in Reunion.

An expression which can be roughly translated as "Are you up for it or not?!"

Apparently you can reach speeds of up to 90km/hour! 

take-off platform 

The owner said about 90% of visitors decide to do it a second time, and we were no exception! The three of us loved it!




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