La Soufrière - Guadeloupe, de Basse-Terre à Grande-Terre

Chutes du Carbet - Guadeloupe, de Basse-Terre à Grande-Terre

Pointe des Châteaux - Guadeloupe, de Basse-Terre à Grande-Terre

Guadeloupe, France

Guadeloupe, from Basse-Terre to Grande-Terre

IslandCoastVolcanoForest

4.4 / 5· Hidengo

The notebook of Guadeloupe, from Basse-Terre to Grande-Terre

Switch from a port to an open landscape.

Volcanic forest, Atlantic beaches and Creole villages make up an archipelago with clearly contrasting landscapes.

At your own pace

Breathe Walk along Admire

Identity summary

Ideal duration

2 to 6 days

Best time

Spring · Summer · Autumn · Winter

Car

Recommended car

Type of stay

Island · Coast · Volcano · Forest

Accessibility

Variable accessibility

Rhythm

Sweet rhythm

General presentation

Guadeloupe, from Basse-Terre to Grande-Terre

Volcanic forest, Atlantic beaches and Creole villages make up an archipelago with clearly contrasting landscapes.

To understand what Guadeloupe is, from Basse-Terre to Grande-Terre, you must look at La Soufrière, Falls du Carbet and Pointe des Châteaux. These places give us a view of a territory marked by island landscapes, coastline, volcanic landscapes and forests and allow us to move from emblematic sites to more intimate stages.

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For a stay of 2 to 6 days, a quiet rhythm works well. Also to be anticipated: variable influx depending on the season. A car is usually the easiest way to connect the different sectors. Accessibility varies from site to site and deserves to be verified step by step.

Pointe-à-Pitre - Guadeloupe, de Basse-Terre à Grande-Terre

Strengths and constraints

Strengths

La Soufrière
Chutes du Carbet
Pointe des Châteaux

Before you choose

Variable frequency depending on season
Parking to anticipate in the center

Places worth visiting

A selection to start dreaming and organizing the stay — not an exhaustive list of everything there is to see.

Place indismissible

La Soufrière

4.7 / 5· Hidengo1 to 2 hrs

The Sufrière imposes a living volcano atmosphere, between wet savannahs, sulphur fumoils and clouds that sometimes swallow the summit. The path changes quickly with the weather: slippery stones, wind, flash lightening on Lower Earth. When the sky opens, the view goes to the reliefs of the island and the Caribbean Sea.

Waterfall

Chutes du Carbet

4.6 / 5· Hidengo1 to 2 hrs

The Carbet Falls descend from the Sufrière Mountains into a thick forest where the moisture envelops ferns, trunks and bridges. Depending on the open route, the tour gives access to very different points of view: distant water curtain, rumbling in vegetation, or pool collected after a more intense walk.

Nature and landscape

Pointe des Châteaux

4.5 / 5· Hidengo1 hr 30 min to 2 hr 30 min

At the eastern end of Grande-Terre, the Pointe des Châteaux is advancing in the Atlantic with its cut rocks, sprays and the Désirade laid off. The wind shapes the experience as much as the landscape; the exposed trails require caution, especially when the swell strikes slabs and coves.

Nature and landscape

Pointe-à-Pitre

4.5 / 5· Hidengo1 to 2 hrs

Pointe-à-Pitre is discovered by its perfumed markets, ancient houses, docks and the ACTe Memorial on the waterfront. The city gives another texture to the voyage in Guadeloupe: more urban, more commercial, marked by the port history and by the traffics between the islands of the archipelago.