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Buses stop at eight, the roads on Mahé are narrow with uncovered storm drains, and the sea between the islands has its own advice.

Seychelles is US Level 1 and no part of it is advised against. The real warnings are about the sea, the roads and things left unattended.

Seychellois food is a Creole kitchen built on an ocean and a plantation economy, and its clearest expression is a fish market in Victoria.

Seychelles had no indigenous population, so everything here was carried in. Its Creole culture is what the people brought and what survived.

Moutya is a dance that enslaved Africans performed at night in the forest, out of earshot of the plantation house. UNESCO inscribed it in 2021.

Seychelles is on the Indian Ocean slave route, not the Atlantic one, and it has a mountain school built for the children of liberated Africans.

Why multi-country itineraries are marketed the way they are, what the arithmetic actually gives you, and the commercial interest behind the pitch.

Island-hopping, steep terrain and roads flanked by uncovered storm drains matter more here than any single building does.

Fifty-four countries, and the origin of every human story. This is the root of every destination on Echoes of Africa.

The Mediterranean and Saharan north — Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.

From the Sahel to the Gulf of Guinea: Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria and their neighbours.

The Rift Valley, the Swahili coast and the great migration corridors.

The Congo Basin and the equatorial forest states.

The Kalahari, the Cape, the Zambezi and the southern highlands.

Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros.