ANOTHER SPECTACULAR ERUPTION AS THE PITON DE LA FOURNAISE MAKES IT FOUR THIS YEAR
(Posted 26th August 2015)
An unprecedented fourth major eruption this year has seen the French island of Reunion once again make headlines as more visitors, in particular volcano spotters, head there. More recently did the island make headlines when debris from missing flight MH 370 washed up on Reunion’s eastern beaches.
Monday afternoon at 18.50 hrs did the Piton de la Fournaise once more erupt and the local administration immediately decreed a full range of safety measures for the local population after already giving advance warning of an imminent eruption on the 19th of August.
The rugged interior of the island, including trails up to the crater of the volcano, have in recent years attracted a new breed of adventure tourists seeking to hike and bike across the hundreds kilometres of well-marked trails in a zone declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site some years ago. In 2015 have eruption chasers joined the growing number of visitors heading to this French island deep in the Indian Ocean.
Helicopter flights, while presently not permitted to overfly the eruption zone, still permit tourists to see the lava flows from a safe distance and are hugely popular with visitors.
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