Flamboyants

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This is a flamboyant! These trees are tall, flat-ish on the top, and usually FULL of bright red flowers, so much so that there are more flowers than trees. I keep meaning to stop at my favorite flamboyant to take a better picture than the one that I have here, but I have not dont it yet.

Salazie

The interior of Réunion is made up of high mountain cliffs that are seperated by three bowl-like 'cirques,' or valleys. The hiking and the views are phenomenal. The three cirques of Réunion are Salazie (east), Cilaos (south) and Mafate (west). I spent the past two weekends hiking in Salazie and will spend for days this week backpacking through Mafate, the 'most difficult' and apparently the 'best' cirque. All the hiking trails in Réunion are connected and every October there is this big race called the Grand Raid. You have 63 hours to run 146km. It is insanity.