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A Rendezvous with Réunion

GETTING THERE

From Southeast Asia, the easiest route is via nearby Mauritius, home to the largest airport in this corner of the Indian Ocean. The (), flies twice-weekly between its home base and Kuala Lumpur using a state-of-the-art Airbus A330-200 with 18 full-flat business-class seats and 236 economy-class seats with good legroom. The airline’s Réunion service—a 50-minute hop in an ATR turboprop—operates multiple times a day. Once on the ground, rental cars are easy enough to arrange, but for a chauffeur-driven experience, you won’t do better than Jérôme Dijoux ().

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