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The most accessible parts of the PARC NATIONAL DE LA GUADELOUPE , a tremendous 17,300ha rainforest that encompasses the volcanic La Soufriere and the thundering Chutes de Carbet, branch off from the Route de la Traversee (D23), Basse-Terre's cross-island road. Recently designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, the park has numerous hiking trails, the easiest of which, the stroll to the Cascade aux Ecrevisses and the meandering Bras David , can be done in a morning. The former is signposted to the left about 7km inland on the Route de la Traversee and is a straightforward 100m walk along a jungly pathway that culminates at a modest teal cascade. The latter begins another two kilometres westward along the same route, behind the Maison de la Foret (Wed-Mon 9am-1.15pm & 2-4.30pm; closed Tues), which has free English trail maps for three nearby walks. The Decouverte de Bras David is the shortest of these, consisting of a dark twenty-minute loop that gives a good introduction to the flora common to the interior, like moss-covered white gum trees and hardy acomat-boucan with enormous buttressed trunks. The park's fauna is showcased 3km further west, at the Parc des Mamelles (daily 9am-5pm; ?5.34), where local endangered species are bred, the wily racoon chief among them. From here, the Route de la Traversee makes a steep descent to end at the southern outskirts of Pointe-Noir and the coastal N2.
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