AT#889 - Travel to Reunion Island

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Hear about travel to Reunion Island, an outpost of France in the Indian Ocean as the Amateur Traveler talks to Collin McFadden about his recent trip to this adventure travel paradise. https://amateurtraveler.com/travel-to-reunion-island/ Why should you travel to Reunion Island? Colin says: "Reunion is, I would say, first off, an adventure destination. It is not a place to go for beaches and just hanging out mostly because they don't have beaches per se, there are a few, but it is a volcano, very much like the Hawaiian Islands. It is a place to go for hiking, biking, climbing, canyoning, paragliding you name it, you will find folks doing it on Reunion Island." "I would say also it is a really interesting cultural mix in that it is France. It's not a colony of France. It is a district of France and was uninhabited prior to the French showing up and then reflects 18th, 19th, and 20th century French history and French trading patterns. It's a real mix of French vibes, East African vibes, and South Asian vibes." ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amateur Traveler episode 889. Today amateur traveler talks about
0:06.0	Pitons and Pastries paragliding a shield volcano sea turtles and Somosas as
0:12.4	we go to the island of reunion in the Indian Ocean.
0:17.6	This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler.
0:20.5	Let's talk about reunion.
0:30.1	I'd like to welcome the show Colin McFadden from why should I visit
0:34.1	dot com who's come to talk to us about Reunion Island. Colin, welcome to the show.
0:35.9	Hi, nice to be here.
0:37.8	I feel like I should be looking Colin back to the show,
0:40.4	but he's never been on the show, but Colin is a patron of the show and so I have seen
0:45.1	his face on Zoom dozens of times and feels like an old trend at this point. Colin where is
0:51.7	reunion Island what are we talking about here?
0:53.6	That's definitely the first question you're going to get when you tell people you're going to
0:56.5	reunion Island because especially in the US, basically no one's heard of it.
1:00.4	Easiest way to find it if you're thinking about a map of the world is to find Madagascar and then go
1:06.3	about 600 kilometers to the east in the Indian Ocean. If you happen to know where Mauritius is, it's just southwest of Mauritius as well.
1:15.0	And what is your connection with Reunion Island?
1:18.0	Like a lot of people, I have a notes document I keep of places I want to go and I just want to hear about a place I add something into the notes document and I had added
1:26.4	Reunion Island to the list a long time ago and at the time I was not good about keeping track of how I learned about places.
1:33.8	So it took me a while to actually figure out why it was on the list.
1:36.3	And we live in Minnesota and we're always trying to think about how we get out of Minnesota
1:39.6	in the winter.
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