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Giant granite boulders
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    • kyoub
  • By kyoub on July 19, 2004
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    • Boulders - Seychelles
    Boulders
    by kyoub
    Pointe Source D'Argent is a two-mile long beach that that steps down from heaps of giant granite boulders. These rocks, one heaped on top of the other, seem as though they might fall at any moment but they are so dramatic you can't stop looking at them.
    The water is crystal clear casting different colors from the rocks, which appear either pink or grey.

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    Arriving in the Seychelles
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  • By Muya on November 15, 2004
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    • Sainte Anne and the marine park - Seychelles
    Sainte Anne and the marine
    park
    by Muya
    When you arrive by plane, the view you have is the island of Sainte-Anne and the Marine park. Apart from the moment we get in the plane, this is my favorite moment...when we start to see the land :-) And arriving in the Seychelles was quite magical to me.

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    How to fish
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  • By Muya on November 15, 2004
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    • Fish trap - Seychelles
    Fish trap
    by Muya
    If you are lucky and go to the right beach at the right time, you will see fisherman of the Seychelles dragging this fish net to the beach...most of the time full of tasty fish :-)
    Unfortunately I wasn't that lucky, and all I could see is that empty trap on a beach of Mahé. But I did taste delicious fish like the "bourzwa" and others so delicioulsy grilled or prepared in a "kari seselwa" !

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    Little airport of Mahé
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    • Muya
  • Updated By Muya on December 7, 2004
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    • Mahé airport - Seychelles
    Mahé airport
    by Muya
    Even if you choose to go to Praslin or La Digue, you always have to land in Mahé first. The little airport is really picturesque... and so tiny :-)
    People welcome you in a very friendly way when you arrive, and our hostess even offered me a frangipani flower because I was the first one to get out of the check in area :-))

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    Beds full of flowers
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  • By Muya on November 15, 2004
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    • Mahé, our little bear, surrounded by flowers - Seychelles
    Mahé, our little bear,
    surrounded by flowers
    by Muya
    Room service in the Seychelles is good almost everywhere. We were staying at the Berjaya Mahé Beach Hotel in Mahé and we were very satisfied. One thing I appreciated particularly was the way they made the beds. We found it very often covered with flowers, and I found this so sweet :-)
    Little attentions that make you happy !

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    Smiling moon
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    • Muya
  • Updated By Muya on December 7, 2004
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    • Happy moon - Seychelles
    Happy moon
    by Muya
    One thing that I found very funny in the Seychelles is to see the moon in another position than I'm used to see it at home :-) If you click the picture, you'll see it a little better. The crescent of the moon is more upright in Belgium, but I liked it a lot with its bright smile ;-)

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    Flowers
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  • By grets on January 29, 2005
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    • Bougainvilia - Seychelles
    Bougainvilia
    by grets
    The Seychelles is full of beautiful and colourful flora, plants that we have as pot plants at home will grow to enormous bushes or even trees. I loved to walk around the hotel grounds and also see the flowers growing along the side of the road. Beautiful!

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    Geckos
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  • By grets on January 29, 2005
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    • Gecko - Seychelles
    Gecko
    by grets
    If you have read some of my other pages here on Vt, you may know by now that my husband David is absultely passionate about geckos and lizards. WE will spend hours just wathcing these cute little creatures scampering in amongst the rocks.

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    Visit La Digue Island and its...
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  • By nikke on September 8, 2002
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    • Seychelles General Tips
    by nikke
    Visit La Digue Island and its Anse Source D'Argent beach. Countless beaches worldwide are called the world's most beautiful beach by locals. Well, I've been around a lot and nothing I've seen thus far compares to the beauty of La Digue's Anse D'Argent. It does not have the best snorkeling or the best reef in the Seychelles...much less in the world, BUT those granite outcrops provide the beach with perfect beauty. I've never heard any one having had the opportunity to marvel Anse Source D'Argent's beauty deny that fact that it is INDEED the most beautiful beach they have ever seen. It's really a bit beyond your imagination...

    It's really hard to say, which is my fondest memory of the Seychelles. It could be La Digue's Anse Source D'Argent beach, Praslin's UN World Heritage site Vallee de Mai with its ancient coco-de-mer forest, the good snorkeling reef around the tiny isle of St. Pierre just off Praslin's eastern coast, Mahe's mountains and its secretive isolated beaches. All those are fantastic memories BUT being the snorkeling (and nowadays diving) freak I am, I would have to choose Mahe Island's Baie Ternay Marine Park: the shallow water corals are bleached due to El Nino, but we saw turtles and doplhins in the water as well as unbelievable variety and quantity of fish life. Out of this world type snorkeling to say the least...

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    Watching life on the beach
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  • By grets on January 29, 2005
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    • Fishermen - Seychelles
    Fishermen
    by grets
    I loved to get up early in the morning and watch the fishermen bring their cathc back and all the locals helping to bring the net ashore in return for a fish or two. Fishing is one of the major industries in the Seychelles.

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