So, after 6 months of anticipation, about 5 going away parties, and 72 hours of traveling I finally made it to the Seychelles. and it was all totally worth it. I could not be happier. The people here are wonderful... so happy. Everyone seems to know exactly how lucky they are to be here. It is so indescribably beautiful. The mountains are so majestic, the water is a gorgeous aqua blue and teeming with the most interesting marine life I have ever seen. It has been so long since I left for mahe, that I don’t even feel like talking about [View Full Entry]

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As Paul, my fiancé is from the Seychelles, i personally consider this country my second home already. We fly down to Seychelles Islands at least twice a year. I will be compiling all our trips (including the previous ones) in here and will update this entry regularly or every after a successful trip there and back. Hopefully after reading this, you'll feel like you've been there yourself! MAHE There are 115 islands in the Republic of Seychelles and Mahe Island is the largest. The country's international airport is located here. It is advisable to be wide awake during top of descent [View Full Entry]

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Travelling to the Seychelles The Republic of Seychelles comprises 115 islands occupying a land area of 455 km² in the western Indian Ocean. She lies between 4 and 10 degrees south of the equator .Of these 115 islands, 41 constitute the oldest mid-oceanic granite islands on earth while a further 74 form the low-lying coral atolls and reef islands of the Outer Islands.She is paradise.The Seychelles is not in a cyclone belt and has no dangerous and/or poisonous animals or reptiles.Crime is virtually non existent.There is petty crime such as stealing your bag while you are lying on the beach so [View Full Entry]

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OK... Im completely new to blogging. I have created this little thing so that all my friends & family (aka you if you are reading this) can see what im up to. I am moving to the Seychelles January 4th, 2009. For those of you who dont know where that is located... grab a globe and check it out. The Seychelles are an African island group located in the Indian Ocean (north east of Madagascar). I am joining a volunteer organization called Global Vision International to do marine conservation work. This means I will be scuba diving a few times a [View Full Entry]

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As you read this, we should be on our way back to Shanghai...or already in Shanghai. Back to some reality, and to the stressful world. But before this, here are 3 more days of wonderful happiness. After the Banyan Tree on Mahe, we made our way to the Lemuria Resort on Praslin Island...you can get there by helicopter, flight or boat...we took the slow way, with the fast boat. The Lemuria has two very attractive point...the first, it is a member of Relais & Chateaux...which means we should eat pretty well. The second is a very nice and wellknown golf course. [View Full Entry]

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This entry is one of love, romance and much more. I would like first to thank Jacqueline and Faith who made all this possible, you are both wonderful! Seychelles, this is a place of the wildest dreams. I've been waiting years to come here...right time, right place, right company. This is our first romantic holidays with Ma'ri...not that the one last month was not romantic...but this one is "us time"... The action place is a beach villa at the Banyan Tree...secluded place on Mahe Island. Our villa is amazing. We managed to go out the first day for a dream [View Full Entry]

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Eventful Wednesday! Well today dawned a glorious day with not a cloud in the sky. Which considering just how tropical it is here at Cap Ternay - was a bonus. I was doing the weekly 'plankton pull' so was really glad that the sun was out and the sea flat clam. The plankton pull is our weekly check to see how much of the stuff is hanging around the area. We drop a really fine net in to preset depths, which are timed, then pull it back in and wash the plankton into a bottle. The places we do this are [View Full Entry]

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Wow can't believe we have already been here 3 weeks. Time is starting to fly past! This week we had our coral and fish exams. The pass mark is 95%. On my first go I passed my coral exam with exactly 95%. Geoff got through on his fish exam (harder i think) second go with 99%. The reason the pass mark is so high is so that the data we collect for GVI is 'good' enough. This classes it as scientific level data. Life on base is the same as ever. The food is getting more monotonous - lentils, rice, pasta, [View Full Entry]

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We went diving at Rays Point after the last blog entry and we did see a huge Reef Ray! Water temp was 27deg - nice change from the murky green 14deg of the UK. The base is at the site of an ex youth training camp, all the buildings are derelict except ours! This is kind of spooky at night. We have one building with accommodation and training rooms in, one with the kitchen and big dining area and one for all the dive kit and hanging up laundry. When we arrived we were some of the first so there were [View Full Entry]

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I and my husband along with my sweet baby have visited Seychelles Island this year i.e. 2008 in our famous Bengali Festival called Durga Puja in the month of October, 2008 . We left Kolkata on 5th October 2008 in the night. We took a flight of Emirates Kolkata-Dubai and then Dubai-Seychelles. We reached Seychelles at about in the morning on 6th October, 2008. There is a Creole Travel Service which is very famous. May be 2-3 travel service are there. Creole is one of them. Creole have arranged our transport to reach the Hotel Le Meridian Fisher Man Cove . [View Full Entry]

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