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.: 03-May-2005 :.
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Take off in the middle of the day from Orly
airport (Paris)...
Landing at 14h30 in the heat (around
30°C). After taking the car direction the
south of the island to the Hotel, at Le
Diamant.
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.: 04-May-2005 :.
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Nice weather to visit the cities and
the nice beaches of the south-east
of the island. We follow the south coast
: Gros-Raisin, Sainte-Luce, Anse Figuier,
Le Marin, Sainte-Anne and his nice point
of view and until Grande Anse des Salines,
probably the most beautiful beach of the
Martinique. So after little bath we leave
this nice place to start the south of the
east coast : Cap Chevalier and his mangrove
swamp, Anse Michel to finish with a sundown
on the wild Cap Macré...
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.: 05-May-2005 :..
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Under some intermittent rain, we do a
small walk in the Montravail Forest
populated with a lot of... Crabs !
After that, departure for the south west
of the island. Trois-Ilets, the too much
touristic (and so not really typical) Pointe
du Bout, Anses à l'Âne, Grande Anse d'Arlet,
les Anses-d'Arlets. Then we follow the nice
littoral road until Le Diamant. At the end
of afternoon, come-back to the nice Grande
Anse beach for a small bath...
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.: 06-May-2005 :.
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Today the visit starts still in the south
of the island but into the lands throught
Rivère-Pilote and Saint-Esprit. No tremendous
things to see in these 2 cities but we follow
a pretty road. We join the east cost to
the Petit Macabou and then go to the north
still beside the shore : Le Vauclin, La
Pointe Faula, Le François, Simon Bay, Le
Robert... Little bath near Pointe Marin...
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.: 07-May-2005 :.
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Sunny day to take the Route de la Trace
(N3) into the lands and in direction of
the north.
At the beginning of this road we visit
of the beautiful Jardin de Balata (Garden
of Balata). After that we continue toward
the north via the Pont de l'Alma (!) until
the Morne-Rouge city and and nice view on
the (always) fogged Montagne Pelée volcano.
A little farther we stop at Ajoupa-Bouillon
to do a "canyoning style visit"
of the Gorges de la Falaise, a quite impressive
couloir with high rock walls digged by water, and terminated by a nice waterfall.
Great !
We rejoin the north-east coast to Le
Lorrain and go along it via Le Marigot,
Morne Poirier and his nice view on the Caravelle
peninsula and La Trinité.
We visit the pretty Caravelle peninsula
until the end (Dubuc Castel) and come-back
to make a stop on the beach of the nice
Tartane village at the end of the day.
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.: 08-May-2005 :.
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After a lot of visits and Kms done, today
is a relaxing day ! :o)
Nice weather so we decide to go the the
Anses-d'Arlet beach especially for snorkling.
On this place there is, at 60/80m of the
shore, several rocks under the sea (2/3m
only) that provide an easy way to see nice
exotic fishes...
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.: 09-May-2005 :.
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Departure with a Ferry from Anse à
l'Âne to Fort
de France, the main city of the
island. We see some old houses, the Cathedral,
the Fort, the Place de la Savane and the
nice Scholoecher
Library. Also some shopping in the
downtown and especially in the cover market.
After coming-back to the Anse à l'Âne,
we go to Saint-Pierre
in the north via the west shore road to
visit the 1902 catastroph museum.
We finish the day on the wild north part
of the island : the nice black sand beach
of Anse
Céron and the end of road (west
side) at Anse Couleuvre.
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.: 10-May-2005 :.
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Quite rainy day and come-back to Saint-Pierre
to visit the vestiges of the 1902 catastroph
(Theater, Cyparis'
cell, Mont-au-Ciel street, Church...).
We take the road again to go into the
lands : the Morne-Vert, the beautiful
village of Fond-Saint-Denis, the
Saut
du Gendarme waterfall...
We reach the north coast and follow the
road until Grand-Rivière
(end of the road on the north-east). Come
back via the east shore road.
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.: 11-May-2005 :.
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For the last complete day we visit one
of the most touristic attraction of the
Martinique : the Baignoire
the Joséphine, a white and high
sandbank between two islets with crystalline
waters... The real post-card...
We continue the day on the Oscar
islet with a lunch and baths...
Come-back to Le
Diamant to visit the city, finally
! :o)
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.: 12-May-2005 :.
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Before leaving we visit one of the most
important thing here : a rum distillery !
We choose probably the most famous, the
Trois-Rivières. Interesting, shopping and...
tasting ! :o)
But it's time to leave, take off at 17h
from Lamentin Airport.
Landing tomorrow morning at Paris under
a grey rainy sky with 9°C...
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.: Conclusion :.
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Very pleasant island to see with very
different kinds of landscape. For a lot
of things to do or to simply profit of all
the smooth rhythm of the Caribbean Islands...
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