The town of Le Prêcheur and the town of Grand-Rivière are linked by a famous hiking trail, located in the extreme north of the island. This path follows the old departmental road that used to connect the houses of these two communes using ox-drawn carts.
This hike lasts about 6 hours and allows you to discover dry or humid forests depending on the areas crossed, still wild coves on the Caribbean coast, waterfalls at the foot of La Pelée and a landscape that bears witness to the past.
Although the area we crossed is no longer inhabited, it still preserves the traces of past human activity such as pavements, stone bridges and tunnels. Until the beginning of the last century, ox carts still circulated on this route.
The vegetation also testifies to the development of the land of these old dwellings, we can still find mango trees, cocoa trees and coffee trees near the path. Anse Couleuvre still bears the ruins of its old distillery.
While passing from a dry forest to a humid forest, the attentive visitor will be able to observe spaces virgin of any occupation like the Trois Bras River and its primary vegetation of low altitude. The tormented relief has shaped the vegetation and the climate from one ravine to another. The hiker will thus pass from a dry forest to a humid forest where palm trees and Bois Rivière thrive.