HORIZONT is a travel picture book series with over 100 available titles, professionally photographed by renowned travel photographers. It features up to 350 pictures on 160 large format pages, showcasing all important sights, culture, and traditions. The books include knowledgeable and extensive texts, detailed captions, a colored overview map, and a detailed index. La Réunion, the southernmost outpost of Europe, is an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, thousands of kilometers from France, to which it belongs as an overseas département. It is a tropical paradise full of contrasts, with volcanoes and valleys, beaches, and small mountain villages. The island owes its unusually mountainous relief to its volcanic origins, and erosion has created three basins, which in turn are worlds apart: Mafate with its wild landscapes, Salazie with its.