All you need to know about nature in Martinique

The Municipality of Sainte Luce benefits from a beautiful Caribbean coastline, and offers beautiful calm and sheltered beaches, good quality bathing waters and an idyllic setting for walking; several very pretty coves follow one another: Gros-Raisin, Pont-Café, Fond-Banane, Corps de Garde, and Mabouyas. A hiking trail makes it easy to go from one to the other.

In the southwest of Martinique, the beach of Anse Dufour will surprise you. At the edge of this stretch of white sand, you can make magnificent dives as well as in the waters of Anse Noire, both accessible by rental car.

To go scuba diving, Martinique offers several areas to indulge in the activity during your stay. They are mainly located on the Caribbean Sea side where the waters are rather calm.

If there is one exceptional and unmissable place to discover in Martinique, it is the Josephine Bath. Behind this original name hides a magnificent lagoon with a shoal located in the south of the archipelago off the town of François between the Oscar and Thierry islands.

On the heights of the commune of Sainte Luce, overlooks a luxuriant and tropical forest of more than 75 hectares, the Departmental-State forest of Montravail. The ONF has set up two trails (the first of 20 min, about 1 km and the second of 1 hour, about 2 km) for all ages, for the enjoyment of young and old.

Hiking is one of Martinique's major assets. Indeed, the territory has a unique and extraordinary fauna and flora to come and admire. Its temperatures around 27 degrees all year round and its heavenly beaches make walks very pleasant.

Located in the town of Diamant, the mountain of the reclining woman is a site of exceptional beauty that is worth a detour during a stay in the southwest of Martinique. You will be amazed to see firsthand the shape and relief of this mountain and its surroundings, which curiously recall the shapes of a woman lying on her back.

Martinique is full of hot springs coming from different places on the island. Few of them are still exploited, but all are more or less accessible in different municipalities on the island.

At the exit of the village of Le Vauclin, by following the coastline on foot or by renting a car, you will reach the nautical base of Le Vauclin, a real favorite area for sea lovers and board sports.

Only present in the tropics, the mangrove constitutes the border between land and sea. This forest develops in areas of calm and shallow water: it is found especially at the bottom of protected bays.

The Mountain of Vauclin, place of pilgrimage and panorama: With its 504 meters of altitude, the Mountain of Vauclin is the highest point of the south of Martinique. Go to the conquest of this panorama impossible to circumvent of the island.

The two pearls of the island are located on the western part of Martinique, these two beaches located on the same cove have the particularity to have two different colors of sand.