360° Mayotte
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Faune and flora.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté, Automne.
Petit Futé
Where to stay - Bandrélé ?
The map of your stay "360° Mayotte"
Detail of the stay : 360° Mayotte
How to get there - Bandrélé
Discovering the north
Discover the island with its beautifully decorated bangas, inhabited by teenagers trying to seduce young girls. Enjoy magical views of the northern islets and their turquoise waters (try to take advantage of low tides, when you'll see the most beautiful shades of the lagoon) and return to the center of the island with its bush, ylang-ylang plantations, stills and cane forests.)
Dolphin or whale safari
There's nothing like discovering the most beautiful islets and beaches in season. Take advantage of the opportunity to snorkel the seabed, with its multicolored fish and abundant coral. For families, snorkeling is the perfect supervised activity for all levels of experience. And you're sure to catch a glimpse of dolphins or whales.
Departure for southern Mayotte
Steps: Bandrélé
Stop in front of the largest baobab tree at Musical Plage. Visit thesalt eco-museum in Bandrélé with its famous mamas shingos, who will introduce you to mangrove salt harvesting using ancestral know-how handed down from generation to generation; then head for Pointe Salizey for a walk at the foot of its majestic baobabs. The hiking trail leads to a succession of beaches with beautiful drop-offs. Why not take a guided tour with Mayotte's naturalists? They also offer bivouacs for the evening.
Places of interest : ÉCO MUSÉE DU SEL
Day Hiking
Mount Choungui in the south of the island, attention to the last meters!
Exploration of the seabed
In "S" or other dive spots according to the chosen club and enjoy one of the world's largest enclosed lagoons.
Discovering the south
Steps: KaNi Kéli - Plage De N'Gouja
Drive along the entire south coast with its padzas, the completely eroded stretches of land along the southern tip, and take a break under the baobab trees at N'gouja to swim in the company of the large green turtles that spend their day grazing on the seagrass beds facing the beach (at high tide). A unique experience!
Turtle observation
Steps: M'Tsamoudou
Possibility of bivouac on Sazilé in order to attend the laying of turtles under the starry night (respect the instructions not to disturb them).
Places of interest : POINTE SAZILÉ
Discover the Bouéni peninsula
Centre of the island
Steps: Combani
With its lush, moist forest, its bush, then little walk towards Combani to discover the different species of Maoré. Plantations-ylang, canneliers or giant bamboo plantations are at your disposal. Do not hesitate to stop in front of stills. In this way, you will be able to purchase from the small local producers their extracts from ylang-ylang.
Kayaking along the lagoon
Steps: Plage De Sakouli
Go to Sakouli to see the turtles come out of the water to breathe or go along the fringing reef and admire the beauty of the underwater world by paddle or snorkel. It is also possible to rent kayaks to go to the Bandrélé islet in 30-45 minutes. Plan to spend the day there as the crossings are only possible at high tide.
Microlight flight over the island
Steps: M'Tsamoudou
To immortalize Mayotte and its lagoon, with the islet of Sable-Blanc and the astonishing Mont Choungui! It's also possible to opt for another nautical outing to appreciate the treasures of the lagoon - you'll never get tired of it!
Places of interest : ILÔT DE SABLE BLANC
Shopping day
Steps: Mamoudzou
Half-day in Mamoudzou, "shopping" in its boutiques or covered market to discover the thousand and one spices, fruits and vegetables that adorn the stalls, such as nutmeg, cloves, pepper, cinnamon, bananas, breadfruit, cassava, papaya, mango and pineapple. Then discover on foot the sacred site of Pointe Mahabou, the tomb of Mayotte's last sultan, Andriantsouly. Rendezvous at the barge to head for Petite-Terre, where you'll enjoy lunch and a siesta on the beach. First night on Petite-Terre.
Places of interest : POINTE MAHABOU
Discovering Dzaoudzi
Steps: Pamandzi-Labattoir
Including the "Rocher" district, where the first settlers settled, and a tour of the colonial buildings, including the "Residence" designed by Gustave Eiffel. We then climb to the top of the jade-filled Lake Dziani, which lies in the crater of an ancient volcano. Then it's time for a swim on , located on the lagoon's outer barrier reef. Another night on Petite-Terre.
