Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Seychelles
The answer is not a month. It is a coast, because the monsoon that makes one side of an island safe to swim makes the other side dangerous.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Seychelles: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Silhouette Island: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The first island of the group ever sighted, in 1609, and one whose heritage case rests on Creole tradition as much as on its wildlife.
Heritage
Vallée de Mai: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A palm forest on Praslin kept almost in its original state, and home to the coco de mer, which produces the largest seed in the plant kingdom.
Heritage
Aldabra Atoll: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Four coral islands around a lagoon, so hard to reach that they were never spoiled. Some 152,000 giant tortoises live there, the world's largest population.
Heritage
Mission Ruins of Venn's Town: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A school built in 1876 for the children of liberated Africans, high on a mountain on Mahé, and a stop on the Indian Ocean slave route.
Destination
Seychelles
Aldabra, where a herbivore sits at the top of the food chain, and a palm forest on Praslin holding the largest seed in the plant kingdom.