by Glynn Burridge
The Seychelles Islands are renowned for their diversity, both in terms of their islands, multi-ethnicity, culture and flora & fauna and the islands offer a broad range of things to do while on holiday: fishing; sailing and cruising; diving and snorkelling; spa retreats; island-hopping; golf and trekking. (more…)
by Alexandria Faure
Seychelles is word renown as the home of the Garden of Eden, the land of nature’s best kept secrets. On the north-western side of the island of Praslin, is a secret waiting to be discovered in a very unique way. Nestled within a crescent moonshaped cove, Anse Lazio’s clear turquoise waters adorn the shoreline, behind a backdrop of tall swaying coconut trees and giant granitic rocks that cascade along the white sands. (more…)
A tropical paradise with its year-round warm weather, pristine powder-white beaches, clear turquoise waters and lush tropical vegetation — Seychelles has long been a popular island destination.
A winner of many international accolades, the 115-island archipelago offers the perfect location for those dreamy pictures, whether you’re after a honeymoon haven or fun family getaway.
While there are plenty of reasons why you should visit Seychelles, here’s three that could tempt you even further to add the destination to your bucket list in 2018: (more…)
by Alexandria Faure
Created 200 years ago, forbidden by the church, and bursting with African influences; the drums of Moutya awakens a vibrant energy!
The Seychelles is a paradise unlike any other – with the world’s most beautiful beaches and unique coralline and granitic islands, there are more to these tropical islands than meets the eye. There are very few material objects or written documentations that can testify for the life of the slaves during the colonial era of Seychelles. The existing testimonies are kept alive through the Oral traditions; Songs, Stories, Riddles and Dances. (more…)
If one single factor has determined the course of Seychelles colourful history, then it is the fact that, as a country, it was settled relatively recently, in the mid-18th century, by French colonists and their retainers or, as the story goes, by a prophetic assortment of ‘15 whites, five Malabar Indians, seven Africans and a negress’.
So much for settlement, but the unrecorded history of the islands that appear on a number of the earliest maps, predates this by many centuries and has also coloured the character of the islands and their evolution into the nation state that we know today as Seychelles. (more…)
