La Vieille Cheminée is a small agricultural farm surrounded by 2 rivers that stem 150 hectares of 'ravenalas' forests, indigenous trees and 100 hectares of diverse plantations: sugar cane, palmheart, pineapples and bananas. The entrance to the estate is overshadowed by an ancient stone chimney - the last remnants of the village's former sugar mill.
Chamarel was first inhabited in 1973 by a French family established on the island, the De Chazal de Chamarel, who gave their name to the area.
275 years later, seduced by the beauty of the region, we enthusiastically poured all of our energy into its development and history: recreating childhood memories that spoke of days gone by, where we as children had the ocean as our swimming pool, sugar cane and rambling forests as our garden, and where our parents took the time to really live with their children, teaching them lessons about the slow passing time.