Seychelles
The
Seychelles Islands were added to our trip when we discovered that the islands
are half way between Africa and Sri Lanka.
Google flights showed that we could get direct flights from Johannesburg
to the Seychelles and a direct flight from the Seychelles onto Sri Lanka. Both
flights are about 4 ½ hours. Four days
relaxing on a beautiful beach to break up our travel was an easy decision to
make.
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| Seychelles Air has amazing leg room |
The
Banyan Tree Hotel sits on the Anse Intendance Beach on the island of Mahe and
it is beautiful beach with the granite boulders and palm trees for which the
Seychelles are famous.
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| Reception |
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| Our Beach |
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| Looking out the door of our villa |
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| Selfie |
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| The granite boulders are smooth and beautiful |
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| Breakfast |
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| Sunset |
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| Tennis match |
On
our second day we decided to hire a boat to do some island hopping. We visited the Island of Praslin and the
Vallee de Mai National Park. This is a
UNESCO World Heritage site that is dedicated to saving the Coco de Mer palm
trees. We wandered on a hiking trail
through the canopy of Coco de Mer palm trees that towered above us. There is a male Coco de Mer tree and a female
Coco de Mer.
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| The trip across the water was very rough |
When
you break open the coconut of the female tree you find a nut that makes this
tree famous. The nut looks like feminine body parts. See for yourself.
To
add to the mystique the male Coco de Mer has its' own sex.
The
forest of palm trees and indigenous plants and trees mixed with granite
boulders was beautiful.
We
then visited what some consider to be the most beautiful beach in the
Seychelles. Here are photos of Anse Lazio beach.
We
drove our rental car back to the jetty and got in our boat and motored 15
minutes over to La Digue Island. This is
a small island with almost no cars and a lot of bicycles.
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| We rented bicycles |
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| They have huge tortoises on the island. Barb is feeding one |
The
beach at Anse Source d Argent is the main draw here. There are sculpted granite boulders that are
fun to walk in and around next to the beautiful Indian Ocean.
After
the day of exploring other islands we decided the beach outside our villa was
better than any of the famous beaches that we saw. If we had to do it over again we would
definitely go see the other islands but we would fly to Praslin and take a boat
from there instead of taking the 1 ½ hour boat ride each direction in rough
seas.
We are off to Sri Lanka.
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