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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 | Little airport of Mahé |   |  |
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 |  on December 7, 2004 |
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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| Giant granite boulders | | |
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 |  on July 19, 2004 |
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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| on November 15, 2004 |
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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| on November 15, 2004 |
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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| Beds full of flowers | | |
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| on November 15, 2004 |
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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| on December 7, 2004 |
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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 |  on January 29, 2005 |
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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| on January 29, 2005 |
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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 |  on September 8, 2002 |
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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| All is exceptionally beautiful! | | |
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 |  on March 2, 2004 |
All of the Seychelles is wonderful. But - for us - La Digue was the utmost! No traffic (!), only ox-cars and bicycles, these fantastic granit rock formations on white sandy beaches, the absolute clear and warm waters, the vegetaion and the very friendly people having a lot of natural self confidence (this applies for the other islands, too, though), made it our favourite island. We went in June and had the feeling, that it was a very good time to go there, as there were even less tourists then as usual! But we have been told, there do not exist any bad times really (weatherwise) to go to Seychelles. Just try to keep an eye on "on which side of an island you are staying ( depending on the direction the monsun blows from, there might be tons of seaweed on the beach)! Mahe is the largest island, beautiful and the one, you can have most activities on. Praslin is wonderful, too, but compared with Mahe and La Digue, it is only 3rd in range (again - to my opionion). A walk in the Valle de Mai-National Parc (that's were the Coco de Mer grows) was very relaxing and impressive and should certainly not be left out! The nicest beaches on Praslin? Anse Lazio (with beautiful rock formations and a small taste on what you can expect on La Digue) and Anse Volbert. We stayed in a guest house on the West side of Praslin - something I would advise NOT to do end of May/beginning of June, as there were tons of seaweed on the beaches. Photos: Well, the ones I've taken are really spectacular and the best I have ever had the chance to take! I spent a fortune on pics - but that was absolutely worth it! So if you go there -make sure, you'll take enough films etc. with you! (in case of digital ones: enough batteries and memo cards, as I expect these articles are very expensive over there! ) Well, our fondest memories of the Seychelles are indeed the beaches with these fantastic rock formations and the landscape/nature in general. But La Digue is absolutly the TOP! There is no need really to mention the weather on Seychelles! Beautiful throughout the year - they told us. And if there is rain - it is always warm. We found though, at Beau Vallon Bay, rain seems to stay longer because of the huge mountains in the "back" of this beach! But this could have been a coincidence! There are no dangerous animals! Apart from the sand flies!!! ( A very important fact for myself!) |
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