Day 057: By the time we got out of bed, our ship was already docked in Le Port on the island of Reunion. We found that the shuttle bus just took us from the busy port section to the terminal outside by the highway.
Jay and I decided we wanted to travel further than just the town next to the port. We wanted to see the capital, Saint Denis. After all, that is such a great sounding place!
We found a single taxi waiting to take us 20 minutes along a highway created in front of steep cliffs. It cost nearly Euro 45! We hopped alone in a large, eight passenger van and drove through sudden drizzle to the capital city. We had a map given by the tourist office at the terminal.
The weather changes quickly and eventually we saw both rain and sun. We walked to the famous places on the tourist map. We saw the whole pedestrian street. We ducked into a supermarket. We had an ice cream sundae at McDonalds. This island is entirely a part of France. Therefore, the currency was the Euro. We withdrew some cash from an ATM.
We ended up down by the waterfront and thought it might be easy to get a taxi and a big hotel here. A receptionist organized us into a van returning to the port area with a group of another five guests. There were no taxis running around the streets. I'm happy we were able to get back to the ship in plenty of time as we were supposed to be onboard by 4:30.
We walked over ten kilometers today. We enjoyed eating in the main dining hall and saw a show with a blues singer from South Africa / UK. Boy, what a set of lungs!
