The prime geographical feature of the region, the Pitons, soar out of the sea to around 750m. These were formed by volcanic activity about 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. Close to this feature lies La Soufriere, the world’s only drive-in volcano.
The seven acre crater’s last eruption occurred in the late1700’s consisting of a minor steam eruption. The caldera is believed to be connected to the ocean because of increase reaction during a full moon which causes high tides.
Visitors to the volcano can take their cars into the crater where the road goes to the edge of the bubbling hot springs. You can walk with a park guide to see pools of boiling mud and clouds of steam that shoot up in the air. Small streams of water flow over the rocks giving them colours that indicate the presence of sulphur, iron, copper, magnesium, and zinc. Fresh rain water collects in the boiling crater where it is heated from where it runs down the mountainside in six waterfalls - the lowest being the Diamond Falls, east of the small town of Soufriere.
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