Another Way To Visit Reunion Island

There are many ways to visit La Reunion. The simplest and fastest way is with a car, you can also fly and enjoy a unique viewpoint on the island. Hiking is the most popular way because you will get the viewpoint as well as access to the less known areas of the island. Last week I discovered another way to visit the island: geocaching.



Geocaching is simple. You have to buy a Tupperware, you will put inside a pen, a small notebook and a few objects. You will have to hide the Tupperware in a place where it can’t be found by everyone. You write down the GPS coordinates of the location and input them on geocaching.com (www.geocaching.com). You can add pictures of the location where the Tupperware is hidden as well as hints to help the search. Anyone can then try and find your cache, in this case one has to write its pseudo on the notebook, the date of the find and the objects that were added and removed.



You guessed it geocaching is a treasure hunt 2.0 that is worldwide. You will be able to look for and find caches everywhere on the planet. When you take one object from a cache you will have to replace it with something else to avoid empty caches. Some people like to follow the movement of the objects they have left in a cache, they can know who took their object thanks to the notebook and contact them through the website to know where the object has been dropped off. There is an automated system to follow an object, you just need to buy a travel bug that you will tie to an object, it will allow you to find out where your object is thanks to the serial number of the travel bug. Each person finding the bug and moving it will update the website and allow its owner to know how far the object has traveled. We found a 20 Yuan bank note last week coming from Montpellier. You can also explain on the travel bug where you want your object to go. The bank note we found had to go to China.



Geocaching is a really good idea to wander in places you don’t know. In some cases the cache is located in a place with easy access but in some other cases you have to deserve the cache and will have to walk through dirt tracks or walk for a while to reach the cache location. You will get the opportunity to discover places you wouldn’t have been otherwise. I had the chance to see another side of La Plaine Des Sables which is my favorite place in La Reunion. I will probably create the first cache in Mayotte.