Colombia to Gustavia walk

Hi. We have a lonely planet guide book and it suggests we could get a taxi out to the western lookout point at the end of colombier and walk back to gustavia. We are active types and would of course take plenty of water. Do people think this is manageable calling in to flamands, anse de colombier and corossol to take pics. Any info on taxi fare and time needed much appreciated!

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galeforce9, you are talking about two different walks:

1- The walk suggested by lonely planet (from the Colombier look out to Gustavia) is mostly downhill. I venture to guess it woud take ~ one hour, perhaps 90 minutes. It is feasible although it might be scary at times, because many stretches of the road don't have sidewalks, roads are narrow, and people drive fast. The one -way taxi to the look-out will cost you ~40-60 euros, depending on season. However this walk does not go through flammands nor corrosol, nor the anse of Colombiers.

2- To get to each of Flammands, Corrosol or Colombier beach, you need to walk all the way down from the look-out to each of these three sea level locations, on three different sides of the mountain. Count about one hour back and forth for each. So 4 hours in total is probably a good approximation for doing all three and then getting back to Gustavia. I don't think it humanely possible do to it in 2 hours. Perhaps 3 hours.

If you are real intent on doing this, the best route would be:

- start at colombier look out (0 hrs)

- walk down to colombier beach (30 mins)

- take the cliffside path to flammands (30 mins), walk through flammands (15 mins) back up the hill to the colombier village (45 mins)

- walk down to corossol (30 mins)

- walk back up to the main road (30 mins)

- walk to Gustavia (30 mins)

By talking the cliffside path from colombiers beach to Flammands, you avoid one of the major climbs. You go around a hill instead of up and down. It is not possible for Corrosol however. From Flammands you must go up and down to get to Corrossol. Then from corrosol you must go up and down to get to Gustavia. Lesser climbs.

Saint Barth is made up of coves/beaches/villages tucked away in between steep hills. Especially on that side of the island. There is generally no way to avoid the up and down to get from one to the other.