The city of Victoria on the island of Mahé is one of the smallest capital cities in the world, despite being home to about a third of the Seychelles’ population. It was named after Queen Victoria and its most prominent feature is… [click to read more]
Aride is the northernmost granitic island in the Seychelles and is 68 hectares in area. It is perhaps the most unspoiled of all the islands and is known as the ‘seabird citadel’ of the Indian Ocean. The island was discovered in 1756, however it was not until 1770 that it was put on the charts by a French expedition… [click to read more]
Mahé is the largest and most developed of the Seychelle’s islands and was named by the French in honour of the 18th century governor of Mauritius, Mahé de Labourdonnais. The landscape is breathtaking and… [click to read more]
Anse Royale is the longest beach on Mahé and estimated to be the second most popular. It is well protected by a fringing reef and is a lively beach at the… [click to read more]
Skiffs from the the Cousin Island reserve come to the boat to collect us, as we are not allowed to go to the island on our own due to it being a protected area. The skiff drivers manage to drive them right up the beach, where the guides are waiting for us. A fairy tern is sitting in the branches above us and a small lizard scuttles past our feet. We pass a young fairy tern that is sitting by the trunk of a tree and we learn that fairy terns do not build nests… [click to read more]
La Digue is named after one of the ships in Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne’s fleet. Despite having a length of only five kilometres and a width of only three kilometres, this is the fourth largest of the Seychelles Islands and is supposed to be the most beautiful… [click to read more]
The coco-de-mer is endemic to the Seychelles and grows naturally on the islands of Curieuse and Praslin. It it the only dioecious palm in the Seychelles with the male and female flowers located on separate plants. This plant also holds two botanical records; for having the world’s largest and heaviest seed at 17 kilograms or more and for having the largest… [click to read more]
Moyenne is a small island of only 0.089 square kilometres, that was bought by Brendon Grimshaw in 1962 for 8,000 pounds. When Grimshaw died in 2012 he left the island to the national park, along with strict instructions that it must remain a national park and that no hotels may be built on the island… [click to read more]
The resort is located on the tip of the Beau Vallon Bay, on the north-western coast of Mahé and is the oldest hotel on the island. A walk along the beach to the end of the bay and… [click to read more]
The mangroves habitat on Curieuse Islands is particularly important as it provides protection and shelter to small organisms, such as fish and crustaceans, from possible predators that normally exist out in the open water. It also provides nutrients to its dwellers because of the large amount of organic matter that is trapped among its roots and it acts as a barrier between the sea and the land… [click to read more]
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