BERJAYA PRASLIN SEYCHELLES RESORT

Berjaya Praslin Seychelles Resort is located bang on the Cote’-de- Or Beach and has lot of restaurants and parish shops/ money changers/ clothing shops etc in its vicinity. They welcome you with a cool lemon grass drink, which is so refreshing after a ride from jetty to the resort.

                                                                  Deluxe Sea-view Room

We stayed in the Deluxe Sea-view Room. These rooms are closest to the Beach and the resorts’s Pizzeria Restaurant and have a nice view of the ocean across the garden. The rooms offer you enough privacy and peace from the resort’s internal area, near pool/bar/souvenir shop and restaurant area. Rooms are well equipped with bath tub and other facilities.

                                                              Cocktail Bar - Near Fregate

We got a fruit basket on our first day, which was quite plentiful and had all local fruits. 

                                                              Fregate Restaurant

Breakfast buffet spread is in fregate restaurant and dinner is in Pizzeria, which is accessible by Public and is on the beach.

                                                              Pizzeria Restaurant

 They have all the tour arrangement facilities, cab booking etc. Coffee is served free of charge 4 PM to 5 PM, in the Fregate area opposite the pool. 


                                                  Farish Shop on Berjaya's Entry Gate

There is a farish shop on the gate and a souvenir shop in the parking area near reception.

                                                                     Swimming Pool

Swimming pool was very small but who needs one, when the beach is right at the doorstep. One can avail a shower room at the time of checking out, if your ferry back to the main island is late eve.

We found the staff very polite and helpful. Overall we had a pretty nice stay here.

Room Tip: Sea View Room had better accessibility to the beach and Pizzeria. Garden facing rooms are no use as they are in interiors and have no sea access or to other facilities of the resort.

BERJAYA BEAU VALLON BAY RESORT & CASINO

Berjaya Beau Vallon resort as the name suggests is located in the famous Beau Vallon bay, place to be for the most beautiful sunsets at Mahe, Seychelles. The resort is a huge one with a wide variety of room offerings, and because of its location has a high demand in every season.  

                                                 Resort's back side - opposite the Beach

We travelled in first week of May, 2014 and resort was bustling with people. The reception staff is unfriendly and unwilling to do anything even minutely small, beyond their strict rules and policies. Room service is extremely poor and you have to demand 2-3 times on the reception helpline (room service never picks) to get the waters or coffee/tea updates.

The rooms were smaller as compared to The Praslin resort. We had taken the standard room and were eligible for an upgrade, but they refused citing Hotel rush. Despite the fact, that we had confirmed this fact before booking, and then only made payments.

                                                 Lounge Area and Parrot Restaurant

The resort’s Parrot restaurant was an extremely nice place with variety of offerings for a long stay and polite and helpful staff. It had a different buffet of International Cuisines every night and restaurant ala’-carte itself was multi specialty with varieties from Italian, Chinese, Creole’, Teppanyaki Counter to Indian Restaurant. Swimming Pool size was bigger than their Praslin resort.

                                                                     Swimming Pool

You have to collect beach towels early morning during breakfast time, or else they finish. There are decent numbers of Beach beds that they place on the beach side. The evenings used to be pretty lively with some musical show, dance performance or a DJ on offering. There was a small casino as well to spend time.

Also, there is a tortoise pen towards left from the reception lobby having 8-10 Large Aldabra Tortoises.

There is spa facility, some boutique and souvenir shops near the restaurant. Travel desk is opposite the reception counter. One of the good things was free pick up and drop facility to Victoria, Mahe. Every guest should make avail of this facility in order to save taxi charges, but one needs to book it in advance, i.e an evening before.

Room Tip: Go with the quality of room, rather than view as no room had any decent views.

Our flight was 4:30 in the evening, so we slept long in morning and had late breakfast. We then took our lazy asses to the beach beds outside and looked around couples enjoying themselves, some small kids playing in the beach waters, which reminded us of our trip, which was long and adventurous enough to be remembered for a long time.

We had a good time in Seychelles, and loved interacting with such friendly people and discovering their unique plants and trees.

Mason’s people came as usual on time to pick us up. I was really happy with their services all through the trip. After being done, with the formalities and being left with spare SR’s, it was time to utilize them in the duty free stores.

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One of the interesting customer benefits of our Hotel was FREE PICK-UP & DROP facility to Victoria Market. This was highly beneficial as Victoria is the cultural and shopping hub of the Island. It had the bus terminus in walking distance, variety of markets, travel agencies offices etc. However, it was subject to availability  so one has to book in advance, i.e in the preceding eve to get the service. They drop you in an AC Mini Bus, which starts at 10 AM and picks you up at 4:30 PM.

Victoria - Watch Tower

We made use of this facility on the penultimate day and reached Victoria Stadium Parking. The souvenir stalls opposite the parking area weren’t opened as yet. So we decided to check the morning rush at Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke Market. The market road was closed as the vendors were dropping of fish produce and vegetables. It’s a spices and vegetables market, and you can see different variety of fruits and flowers being sold here. There are some spices and vanilla items seller in the latter end of the market. The first floor shops are mostly boutique shops selling clothes and make up items in very affordable rates. You can bargain some good deals from the sellers out here.

Sir Selwyn Selwyn Clarke Market

Since, Victoria market was not yet in full swing, and we had today completely for this area, we headed to Botanical Garden in the vicinity. The ticket price here is 100 SR/ person and it’s a very well maintained park. It had variety of trees and is recommended for taking some really good photos in such clean and beautiful surroundings.

Inside Botanical Garden

It was quite some walk in the park, and we were feeling really hungry. So we returned to Victoria again and stopped by Pirates Arms, a really nice place for food and drinks. It’s highly recommended for its amazing prices and cool ambience. It has a small casino too, for those who’re interested. There’s a Seychelles National Museum opposite Pirates Arms, but was closed for lunch, but we anyways weren’t much interested in visiting it. After relaxing here, we roamed around Victoria picking up some stuff for friends and relatives, and all this shopping made it quite tiring. There are lot of small shopping complexes in the Market area, mostly selling clothes, Make-Up Items, Coconut and wooden crafts, coco-de-Mer and antiques etc. There are couple of branded grocery retailers as well. After picking up some take away food from Liam –Liam food shop, we returned to Hotel by 6 PM. We had missed the HOTEL bus, so we had to take the state bus for returning.

I have been having food cravings for Indian food since a few days now, and I really wanted to have something Indian today to be really satisfied with the trip. We had once tried at our Hotel’s restaurant and it was good, but today we wanted to try the Coral Strand restaurant, the other Indian restaurant in the vicinity of our Hotel. Although we didn’t have any energy left, so we took a small nap, before walking upto the Coral strand for dinner. We preferred the Beach walk as it’s shorter, but there were lot of crabs to scare us. Our steps and torch lights made them run away from our path. We reached Coral Strand Hotel and went to their Indian Restaurant, it faced directly at the Beach and one can hear the waves reaching the shores. Butter Chicken and Naan served me a perfect end to a beautiful trip. 

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After yesterday’s hangover, it was time to rejuvenate ourselves with Nature and a beautiful weather supported us. We took the left before Victoria onto the sans souci road which had all the three spots of the day. First up on our way was Mission lodge, which came on a diversion on the right side of the road. It is a nicely preserved ruin of some schools and society of slaves, and has memoirs of on their lives on the Island. It is overlooking the Morne Seychellois Park and has some of the nicest views of the bay. The garden is maintained cleanly and you can see some locals moving around selling small food items.

Viewpoint - Mission Lodge

Driving down the same road, Copolia trail comes on the left side. It passes through the Tea plantation. We started the trail by observing signs made on the side of the road, directing on to a pathway, leading into the jungles and plantation. After a walk of few mins you can see the vast plantation and a lot of greenery, but you can also observe that the path is long and we didn’t want to go any further so we returned from the trail quite early.

Seyte- Tea Factory

Next up was the “Seyte Tea Factory”, there is a parking by the entrance near the shop selling tea. The entry to the gates of Tea Estate is open, and one can see the Ocean view from its entrance lobby. There was nobody at the reception so we made a call for someone to give us a tour of Tea Factory. It was a very nominal fee, considering the prices we have been paying around Seychelles at 25 SR/ person. A lady at the factory directed us to the guy, who showed us the various machines used in Tea Making very patiently and also took us to the area, where tea was actually getting filtered and packaged. The tour lasted 20-25 minutes.

We came outside and decided to buy some tea as souvenir from the factory. There were multiple options like Indian Ocean tea, Mint Tea, Vanilla tea, Orange Tea, Citronelle’ tea etc and all ranging from 25 SR to 40 SR.

It was lunch time and we almost came down the sans souci road looking for a restaurant, finally grabbed a quick snacks bite and decided to visit EDEN Island, since we had lot of time left for the day. Although, it was in tomorrow’s plan, but it was always better to use up the mileage left on your car.

Eden Island- Jetty

EDEN Island was East of Victoria towards the Airport. It’s quite an upmarket residential place, and there’s access to the Island through an overbridge. As soon as we entered, we saw very nicely maintained gardens, roadside and people moving in golf carts. The Island was accessible for the residents and traffic was checked through a security post, allowing people to enter the residential complex. The only place accessible for public was the mall situated on the EDEN Island.

We parked the car in the basement, and roamed around the mall area. It had nice shops from clothing ranges to adventure gears, to travel companies to some restaurants and eateries. The other side of the mall, opened to a Jetty, which had so many yachts parked there. We had some snacks and Ice cream at the parlor and did some shopping. It was like a typical mall, but I believe all the shops weren’t yet opened and only 75% shops were operational. We then returned through the Victoria Market on to the Beau Vallon road for our Hotel.

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A tiring yesterday meant we need to sleep long to recover. Since we had rented a cab for the coming 2 days, we had luxury of time to ourselves. We woke up late for the breakfast, which was almost going to be over. Since, the first stop was at Port Glaud/ launay for snorkeling, we could be a Pirate for the day and not have a bath before we start our day : P

We parked our cars by the beach, and we could already see some families snorkeling and some people crossing over the bay to the small land mass on the other side. Water was very shallow so you can cross to the other side by walking only from some sides with knee deep water. We didn’t find the area too exciting though and maybe the good snorkeling points were further, as I could see some people trying to see corals there.

Waterfall near Port Glaud

We returned after some time to have lunch here, and had it at a small restaurant serving basic creole’ dishes. We met a few people claiming themselves to be registered guides offering us to take to the waterfall. We knew the waterfall in this area, but we didn’t know the route, so we actually wanted to hire one, but weren’t aware of their authenticity and their charges seemed a bit extra. Anyways, we negotiated with one of the guys, who agreed on a good price and took us to waterfall. It was only a small hike, and took us only 20 minutes to reach there. Swimming didn’t seem a safe option there, so didn’t even try. A few clicks and we decided to return. On our way back, the guide also showed us a restaurant about to be opened in a year or so, as construction activity was going on.

It was only 4 PM, but we decided to return back to hotel for some rest and change of wear, as we wanted to head to Wednesday bazaar besides Coral Strand Hotel. We also wanted to catch the sunset at Beau vallon beach.

Sunset at Beau- Vallon

By evening, we were at the beach, and one could hear a lot of noises from fruit bats on all the trees. You could also see them flying here and there over your head. Sun takes its own good time to set here, and giving us breathtaking views for about good 1-2 hours in orange/bluish /greenish shade before turning into night. I wish I could swim up to the horizon as the beach and water looked so mesmerizing. But, since we were dressed for the bazaar, I couldn’t risk an argument with wifey.

The bazaar happens every Wednesday and is in an open area only a few steps away from the coral strand hotel. Its mostly a local affair, with local people showcasing their stuff in various stalls, some of the stalls were having souvenir items, beach wears and coconut/ wood made collectibles, while most other had local food offered at unbelievable prices. You could get all kinds of stuff to eat here, mostly in 40 SR to 60 SR per plate.  There were some locals playing music and others dancing off casually to their tunes. There is a nice walkway down the road starting from Coral Strand, thus all the people collecting food in the take-aways from these stalls were having it here, sitting by the beach.

There were some juice stalls and coconut water stalls too, for the thirsty ones. We had some snacks and tried some grilled items and were full enough for dinner. It wasn’t very big bazaar so 1 hour here is a decent time for you to spend, and beyond that is bore. So, we returned back to Hotel and it was only 9 PM, and we were still enthusiastic about the night. There were some musical performances in the Hotel recreational area and a DJ paying music, which got us in a dancing mood.

We had seen a small night club by the road side, on our way to Bel Ombre area yesterday, which was barely a kilometer from our Hotel. Also, we had the car with us, so out enthusiasm was calling out to drive there and have a good time. We reached 11 PM to this club, I’m not able to exactly remember the name of the club, but I believe it was “Taka Boom-Boom”. It had a park in front of its entrance, where all the vehicles were parked and a DJ inside playing rap songs and likewise. Some beers and the surrounding ambience gave ample opportunity to freely enjoy. Locals were quite friendly here. 

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Morning started with beautiful weather with slight drizzle and gentle breeze. We had kept the day reserved for Trek to Anse Major, but rains had put some doubts in our mind. To add to it, the Public Holiday meant disruption in public services offered.

Since, the Anse Major trail starts only from 3-4 kms west of Beau Vallon, we hadn’t booked a taxi for the same. Anyways, we motivated ourselves to go ahead with the plan and waited for the bus outside our resort. We waited for about 15 mins and had no hope for a bus coming in this direction, but there were a lot of private cars travelling this way. Since, our destination wasn’t far, we thought of trying to ask someone to give us a lift. To my surprise, it took us only a few attempts before we could find a nice family going to the village Bel Ombre’, which was the starting point of our trek.

The drive to the village was scenic, we could see a church, community town hall, small jetty areas along the coast and the road itself was running parallel to the ocean. The couple dropped us at the Bel Ombre bus stop and we could see the highly recommended La Scala restaurant. There was also a reserved parking for the restaurant visitors. It appeared closed though, since it was still only 11 in the morning.

The trail starts a bit more uphill from here, and about a kilometer and a half further from the bus stop. Before reaching the starting point, we saw a lot of construction activity on this side of the island, we also came across a Batman inspired house, though the owner and strict signage for not clicking any photographs. There are two-three trails that start from here and we asked directions from a local for the Anse Major.

The trail starts off in a jungle with a well laid pathway, one can find cardmom trees in abundance here. Only after a kilometer it curves out across a hill onto the Ocean side. Thus you get a lot of great views in this trek. The total ascent –descent across the whole trek is not much, though it’s little long with 5 kms to the beach and return.  There are some viewpoints in the trek, some wooden bridges and a lot of rocky paths. Thus, because of the rains we had to be little cautious along the way.

Anse Major Beach in the Background

The beach itself was small, but very peaceful. Two couples joined us after an hour, after we arrived on the beach. They were brought here in a motor boat, starting from beau vallon beach area. There was a changing area made in woods besides the beach. I really liked the corals here, which had smaller fishes but very colorful variety.

After grabbing some snacks, we slept sometime on the beach, as weather was so relaxing and beautiful. No sun today, I only wished I had a beach volleyball or some activity to do. The two hours at beach were really great. We started back on our trail, as we didn’t want to get too late and wanted to return in time before sunset.

On our way to Anse Major Beach

Rains had stopped by the time we had arrived to the beach, but had left the entire path wet. So, we retraced our paths equally carefully. We reached back at around 6:30 and wanted to grab a bite. We inquired from the La Scala restaurant and they said they would start serving from 7:30 PM onwards, they were preparing for the dinner. So, we made our reservations for a beach facing table, and thought of grabbing a beer. There was a small eatery, about 500 meters down the road along with 2-3 small grocery stores.

Our gourmet @ La-Scala

After utilizing some time, we arrived again at La Scala for dinner. The fresh catch of the day was placed in a ice rack, and we selected a Red Snapper for the grill. Ordered a glass of wine and waited for our order to come. The owners were very warm and welcoming and looked after every detail by themselves. To read more about its review- Visit here.

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Mason’s bus on the Berjaya porch brought a smile on my face reminding of their services in Praslin. These guys are always on time and their Bus Driver to their tour manager, everyone is always welcoming you with a smile.

We were taken to the Mahe port area, from where we had to take the Cataraman to the Island/ Marine Park. We waited for all the passengers to arrive before boarding. After about half an hour’s trip, we entered the Marine Park Area, where we were transferred to a glass bottom boat. This was a smaller boat, where we can sit and see the corals and fishes through the glass bottom of the boat.

You also get to feed some bread crumbs to the fishes. As soon as you put some crumbs, you will find a whole swarm of fishes running upto your boat, as close as you can pick a fish out of water.

After this we visit the Cerf Island and snorkel around the beach.  It was quite similar trip as Day 3, and completed the snorkeling experience in the Seychelles Islands. The fishes here were dangerous though, especially the silver ones. There were less parrot fishes here than in the cousin and St Pierre islands, but variety was more. Corals were dead in some places and where there were live corals, it was too near the water surface, for fishes to come right up to you. I had some close encounters with fishes here, so it’s advisable to not go near the shallow side.

We spent about 1:30-2 hours here and then proceeded to the St Anne Marine Island. There was an on-board lunch, which was a completely creolean’ offering.  St Anne Marine Island had a museum and a resort and its beach had some turtles lying around. We roamed here for about an hour, after which we headed back to Victoria, Mahe. On our way, we were shown Moyenne Island and other small islands that came across. These islands are also visible from the viewpoint while travelling to Beau vallon from Victoria.

All Islands in St. Anne Marine National Park - enroute to Beau vallon from Victoria

In the evening, we were pretty tired so we decided to try our Resort’s restaurant. This restaurant has a different International Buffet menu served every night. Tonight was French Buffet, and it had a good variety of dishes so that left us quite satisfied for the day.

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One has to agree that Breakfast buffets at Berjaya were top notch. After having a nice meal, we met a Mason’s agent at the Travel Desk who quoted several tours on offer, none of them seem worthy of their prices, except the Snorkeling tour to St Anne marine National Park, which we booked for tomorrow. We met a couple of tourists at the breakfast table, who suggested that the best way to discover Mahe island is through several trekking trails and buy renting out a car.

There were 2-3 Car Rental Operators in the Berjaya lobby, and we took a cab from one of them at 50 Euros/ day. Thankfully, no advances required and a hassle free service. We headed to the south side of Mahe today and our itinerary included Jardin du Roi, Takamaka bay Distillery, Craft Village, Baie Lazare, Anse Intendance.

We decided to start the day with the beach first, so first on the list was Anse Intedance. They both were right on the southern end of Mahe and about 25-30 minutes drive from our place. There were all top notch resorts around this area. Anse Intendance was a nice long beach and had beautiful waves coming in. the waves were stronger than Beau Vallon Beach and had some young kids, trying to surf. We stopped by a couple of smaller beaches in this area. All the beaches were quite lonely and one can easily play around or relax or sip a beer, snorkel around. There will be hardly 6-8 people on a particular beach. You can gauge the number of people by the cars parked around the beach area.  Some of the beaches also had a sign for Turtle eggs laying area.

View from Jardin Du Roi Restaurant cum reception Desk

After hopping 3-4 beaches, and some swimming, it was time for lunch. We headed for the Spice garden or Les Jardin Du Roi. Its right atop  the hill and the ascent was a steep slope for about 1- 1.5 kms. The restaurant was at the entry point, and one has to pay the entry charges here before proceeding further into the garden. The owner of the place has some great collectibles from the colonial era in her outhouse and has a map of the garden showing various plants and trees. After a quick snack, we roamed around the area.

The very rare Lip-Stick Tree

Fruit of Lip-Stick Tree

This garden has some nice view points and some really rare spice plants and other ornamental plants. There is a Tortoise Pen, fruit bats, rabbits, African parrot enclosures as well.

 Male Fruit - Coco de Mer

Female Fruit - Coco de Mer

On the other side of the garden, they have 2-3 jungle trails. They also have Coco-de-Mer Trees both female and male fruit types. Although, we tried one of the jungle trails but they were nothing great, as the plants and trees aren’t marked as well as the garden was. However, the garden was exciting because we got to see some of the rarest of plants and also spice trees not commonly seen.

Then we went to craft village, which is marketed as a Souvenir destination of Mahe. Almost every tour operator will stop you by this village. It’s a nice way to promote local culture through the products of local craftsmen. There are a number of hut shaped shops selling craft items and some spices, vanilla based items, soaps etc and all kinds of souvenirs. We purchased some stuff for gifting at decent prices as there was some scope of bargaining here.

                                                          Takamaka Bay rum distillery

It was almost sunset time, when we reached Takamaka Bay Distillery. By this time, the Distillery Tour was closed, but one can see the containers and setup by going inside. There were large copper drums and a neat looking setup of rum making. The grater and sugarcane crusher are outside and the juice is refined and stored in fermentation vessels inside. It is built in a heritage site and there are directions towards its ancient ruins but since it was dark we didn’t explore the area much, and only go as far as lights extended.

                                                          Rum distillery- from Inside

There was a Takamaka rum buying shop with gift pack offerings and a nice fancy looking well lit restaurant cum bar La Plaine St. Andre. We decided to sit and try some rum at the bar, but they would serve by 7:30 PM, so we waited some 10 mins for the restaurant to begin their services. We ordered an Appetizer and 2 rounds of Takamaka Rum each and the bill was hefty 1200 SRs. But their service was excellent and the whole ambience seemed quite classy. More about the Restaurant here.

We were driving back to our Hotel, but going slowly as there was enough mileage left on the car. While, we had decided to take a long drive to the north of Victoria, but moving up North, we came across a night club, Katiolo, which was visible from road and had lighting and some cars parked around. It was only 8:30 so we decided to stop by. The place was getting ready for a big party it seems, as appeared by decently loud music played, floor being set up, and crowd gathering in. However, one of the guys said party will begin 10 and onwards, but we left the place early for our Hotel.

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There’s something about being a Pirate, which makes you feel really cool and adventurous…!! Or maybe it’s the style of Captain –“Jack Sparrow”. Ever since, the first Pirates of Caribbean movies came, I not only became the fan of great storyline with amazing comic timing of Johnny Depp but also of the spectacular beach locations, where it is shot at and the whole Robinson Crusoe experience.  I guess many share the same emotions J

I recently found a perfect companion (Wifey) and we decided to travel places together.  So, to gift her first trip together, I began my search for the most beautiful beaches in the world. I started digging up the most exotic beach locales and came up with brilliant photographic beaches in Fiji, Tahiti, Hawaii, Raja Ampat, The Caribbean Islands, Maldives and the most photographic of all “the Seychelles Islands” J but alas..!! All good things/places in the world come with a hefty price tag L As an Indian, I am proud of my conservative management skills and I’ll explain how to enjoy the beautiful Seychelles, without compromising on anything.

The thing with Exotic destinations is that you don’t easily get a planned itinerary or tour operators offering you a package deal. Even the renowned operator like Thomas Cook, Cox & Kings don’t market Seychelles Islands as a preferred Holiday Destination. They’ll rather promote more conventional options available in South-East Asia and the famous Euro Tours. That said, it makes it even more fun and interesting to plan your vacation and learn about a country and culture before you even land there.

So all I needed to do was gather a little bit of knowledge about Seychelles Islands and plan it out.

“Seychelles is an archipelago of 155 islands in the Indian Ocean with very few of them inhabited. They are very close to equator and have a temperature of 24 to 30 °C throughout the year. Their largest island is “Mahe” which has the International Airport and also the capital – Victoria. They have a very unique flora and fauna, supposedly found nowhere in the world”

There is no way Captain Jack will be satisfied with just ONE adventure in any of his pirate movies. Life shall be full of adventures, and so shall be every vacation so that you remember all the pleasant and exciting moments.

Every vacation itinerary should have some MUST VISITS, sightseeing tours, some cultural tours, some side tracks and of course a bit of shopping. J

I will give a broad summary of my vacation in the beautiful isles: I traveled in April-May so weather was really nice and little bit of rain pour on some days and bright sunny weather on most days.

DAY 1 | Fly from New Delhi to Mahe, Seychelles onwards to Praslin Island

DAY 2 | Praslin Island – Vallee –de- Mai Tour &  Anse Lazio Beach

DAY 3 | Praslin Island – Cousin, Curieuse & St. Pierre Island Tour

DAY 4 | Leave Praslin for La Digue Island – Cycle Tour of La’ Union Estate & Anse’ d Argent Beach

DAY 5 | Hike to “The Beach” {Anse Marron} or Hike to Nid D'Aigle

DAY 6 | Half Day Boat Trip/ Fishing Trip and return to Mahe Island

DAY 7 | Cover Jardin du Roi, Takamaka bay Distillery, Craft Village, Baie Lazare, Anse Intendance

DAY 8 | Snorkeling Trip to St Anne Marine National Park

DAY 9 | Hike to Anse Major and Dinner at La Scala

DAY 10 | Sauzier Waterfall - Port Glaud/Launay- Sunset at Beau Vallon Beach and Party at Night Club

DAY 11 | Tea factory, Mission Lodge, Copolia Trail

DAY 12 | Explore the Victoria Market, Botanical Garden and EDEN Island

DAY 13 |Depart from Mahe, Seychelles to New Delhi

Hotel Reviews/  Restaurant Reviews

Seychelles Traveller's MAPS

The above itinerary includes the following:

Must Visit Spots: Vallee’-de- Mai/ Anse Lazio/ Anse’ d Argent/ St Anne Marine National Park/ Curieuse Island

Sightseeing tours: Cousin, Curieuse & St. Pierre Island Tour/ Cycle Tour of La’ Union Estate/ Full Day Tour of Mahe Island/ Tea factory/ Mission Lodge/ Victoria Market/ Botanical Garden and EDEN Island/Craft Village

Cultural tours: Half Day Boat Trip/ Fishing Trip/ Dinner at La Scala/ Sunset at Beau Vallon Beach (Try the Wednesday market- Local Bazar)/Party at Night Club (Fri/Sat/Sun after 10 PM)/ Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke Market

Side tracks: Hike to “The Beach” {Anse Marron}/ Hike to Nid D'Aigle/ Hike to Anse Major/ Copolia Trail

This itinerary is intended to satisfy every Pirates appetite for adventures. It covers the best of Seychelles in a decently spread schedule. To know about day wise adventures please visit the above links. I will be really glad if my experiences can help fellow Pirates plan their trip to Seychelles Islands.

Seychelles government has a very useful website providing you a one stop point for all the details one needs to know about tourism in their country. You can access it here.

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