http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Seychelles en-us Sat, 28 Nov 09 06:46:15 +0000 Sat, 28 Nov 09 06:46:15 +0000 Hi everyone...Finally I went somewhere new and exiting...Seychelles Wow itrsquos a mix of the Cape and Natal with palm trees. The flight was a short easy 4.5h and we were in paradise. We stayed in a hotel on Mahe Island Baie Beau Vallon Bay. The beach was unforgettable perfect with cool blue water and shiny white sand. The only time I was not on the beach was at night. The sun is deadly http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-445199.html We left Praslin early Monday morning on the Cat Cocos catamaran. The seas were rough breaking over the starboard and drenching some of the passengers. We had been kindly told by the crew before we left harbour to move to the port side.Mahe is the biggest of the Seychelles islands and we arrived in the world's supposedly smallest capital Victoria in glorious weather. Our cab took us from the http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-443211.html Janet has been nagging for years for a trip to the Seychelles so finally I relented and she got to go for her birthday. Air Seychelles had a great special and after a bit of nagging they finally issued the tickets. The plan was to spend a few days on Mahe somewhere really luxurious such as Banyan Tree and then go self catering. Our dates though coincided with the European and French holiday http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Praslin/blog-443171.html Seychelles officially the Republic of Seychelles is an archipelago nation of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean some 1500 kilometres 930 mi east of mainland Africa northeast of the island of Madagascar. Other nearby island countries and territories include Zanzibar to the west Mauritius and Runion to the south Comoros and Mayotte to the southwest and the Suvadives of the Maldives to the no http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-439038.html Landing in Seychelles is fab flying in low over the water islands all around. I had this sense of Magnum PI the whole time. Strange. Would hate to think Magnum PI was formative for me but i guess there were a number of monday evening TV dinners watching it when i grew up.The international airport represents one half of Seychelles small and modest. The other side or other half lives a differ http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-416123.html Our Honeymoon in Seychelles Islands located in the Indian Ocean was the ultimate romantic trip of our lives. We flew Air Seychelles from Bombay airport with a stopover in Mauritius and arrived in Victoria the exotic capital of the island Mahe. We took a cab to our hotel The Coral Strand where we were staying for a week. Coral Strand Hotel is nestled in the Beau Vallon Bay the most famous bea http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-397304.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-364660.html As Paul my fianc 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 yourselfMAHEThere http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/blog-362103.html Travelling to the SeychellesThe Republic of Seychelles comprises 115 islands occupying a land area of 455 km in the western Indian Ocean. She lies between 4 and 10 degrees south of the equator .Of these 115 islands 41 constitute the oldest midoceanic granite islands on earth while a further 74 form the lowlying coral atolls and reef islands of the Outer Islands.She is paradise.The Seychelles http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-359365.html 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 j http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-358051.html As you read this we should be on our way back to Shanghai...or already in Shanghai. Back to some reality and tothe 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Praslin/blog-342657.html This entry is one of love romance and much more. I would like first to thank Jacqueline and Faith who made all thispossible you are both wonderful Seychelles this is a place of the wildest dreams. I've been waiting years to come here...right time right placeright company. This is our first romantic holidays with Ma'ri...not that the one last month was not romantic...butthis one is us time http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-341512.html Hi Irsquom James Irsquom 30 years old and from London. I arrived on the MCSS monitoring program just over a week a go. I donrsquot have much of a marine science background but have always been interested in the sea and am quite a keen scuba diver.This is my second time in the Seychelles this year as I also came in April and completed a ten week marine life conservation project with Global V http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-320063.html July 25 July 31SEYCHELLES Following our relatively painless 4 hour flight from Johannesburg we arrived late evening in the Seychelles a group of tropical islands in the Indian Ocean south of Dubai and between India and Africa. This is a complicated and expensive place to get to if you are not in the area and are coming just for a holiday in Seychelles.This is a very small country of about 8400 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-309296.html 8th June 20th JuneOh dear the quick trip to the Pirates Arms for a couple of drinks turned into to an all dayer with all of us downing jugs of the local Seychellois beer. It was a pretty lively evening and in the end most of our group were there. We also met up with our park ranger Phillipe and his two lovely daughters while we were there. After a day of continual eating and drinking we finall http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-289568.html 8th June Well where to start on what I've been up to A couple of weeks a go I went over to curiese island which is off of Praslin four of us and a few staff went and it has a high population of indigenous giant turtles about 150 apparently although I didn't count them personally the humans on the island number roughly 10 though so they are pretty outnumbered.We stayed in a lovely little cott http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-285073.html 21st May Hi all a pretty quiet two weeks thankfully. We've been carrying on with some of the fish spots for the last couple of weeks and have also moved onto some of the scientific surveying which we are out here for. Basically involves recording all fish that pass by in a 7 metre sphere around the diver. Wednesday night last week we had a farewell meal for all of the five weekers who were leav http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-278567.html 9th May Hello managed to get back on a computer again today and a pretty eventful week it has been too. Firstly as previously mentioned there is a bit of a rat problem in our dorms and in light of this our health and safety director on base has setup Rat Extermination Team Alpha to try and combat the problem. This team of brave men and women were charged with dealing with the conquest of our b http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-274766.html I arrived on the 8th Apr and the first few days were very relaxing and had a great time chilling on the beach and doing a little swimming. We moved onto base on Fri 11th Apr and thats when the work started. There ae about 28 of us on camp and we've been doing a dive a day this week while also also studying the 150 different fish species that we have to learning in order to do the surveys. We've be http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/Mah-/blog-271422.html Seychelles has always been on my list of places to go since I did a report on the smallest member of the United Nations in 10th grade. These amazing islands were uninhabited until British ships began blockading slave ships from Eastern Africa and dropping the freed slaves on the islands that they call the Garden of Eden. There are also stories truth and legend that pirates left numerous burie http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Seychelles/blog-271155.html