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Park in the car park at the Rivière Noire information point.
(S/E) Take the main track that heads into the forest and you’ll soon reach the first junction.
(1) Keep to the right, cross a ford a little further on (you may need to take your shoes off to cross) and follow the Machabée Trail (good track). You’ll reach another junction of tracks.
(2) Continue straight ahead to follow the Machabée Trail. After a few bends, just past the last one, you’ll come to a path junction.
(3) Turn right to reach a viewpoint overlooking Rivière Noire Park with the ocean in the background.
(4) Return to the previous junction.
(3) Take the track on the right and follow it until you reach another junction with a path.
(5) Turn right onto the Macchabée Trail towards Macchabée View Point. Navigate a few hairpin bends to reach the Y-junction where the Macchabée and Colophanne paths meet.
(6) Keep left; the track turns into a narrow path that climbs steeply and is sometimes covered in mud. You’ll reach the Macchabee View Point, marked by a small shelter and a bench.
Enjoy the view of the other side of the park from here.
(7) Continue along this track, now on level ground, until you reach the junction with the Colophanne Trail.
(8) Turn right onto this trail and continue to the junction of the two tracks you passed earlier.
(6) Continue the descent to the junction of the path you also passed on the way there.
(5) Leave the track and take the small Pilgrimspfad path on the right. A steep little descent that requires a little care but is nothing complicated. After a few metres, you’ll look out over the valley; from here, you may spot hundreds of Mauritian black flying foxes.
Cross the stream that flows into the Rivière Noire. A few steps further on, you’ll reach the original junction.
(1) Turn right and follow the route you took on the way there to easily find the car park at the Rivière Noire information point (S/E).
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