The Seychelles is a beautiful country of 115 granite and coral islands, pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Located 932 miles east of Africa and 1135 miles northeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, getting there takes some work. A transit point for trade between ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
Seychelles
Visiting The Seychelles: Six Things You Need To Know
The Seychelles is a beautiful country of 115 granite and coral islands, pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Located 932 miles east of Africa and 1135 miles northeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, getting there takes some work. A transit point for trade between ...Travel Regrets: One Lost Conversation
It's impossible to know what a lost conversation might have yielded. A lost conversation occupies a place in memory, a reservoir of sadness or relief. It's the shape of the reservoir that remains forever unknown. This uncertainty often renders the very recognition of a ...10 best places to live for avoiding world conflict
Expatify.com asked the question, "Where would you be the safest if World War III broke out tomorrow?" The answers arrived in a post titled "10 Best Places to Live for Avoiding World Conflict." Irrelevant as it may seem to you, the claws of conflict affect a revolving roster ...Seychelles two ways: Desroches and Calou
To start, I should say that there's no comparison between Desroches and Calou. They're two different beasts altogether, luxury apples and budget-friendly oranges, respectively. Yet taken together they present two distinctive experiences of the country: Seychelles two ...How to visit Seychelles on a budget
How to visit Seychelles on a budget? It's simple. Stay in a friendly little guesthouse on the island of La Digue, eat dinner at said guesthouse, rent a bicycle, spend time on the beach and chill out.
For tourists, the Indian Ocean country of Seychelles is luxury ...Seychelles idyll for Royal Couple
The British media reported this morning that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge--the two young lovebirds you may know as William and Kate--arrived in the Seychelles earlier today to kick off their long anticipated honeymoon.
After touching down at Seychelles International ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Ibo
Ibo – officially Ilha Do Ibo, by the Portuguese who colonized it - is one of a string of 32 islands that make up the Quirimbas archipelago, separated from the Mozambique coast by just a shallow channel. Barely two miles long and two miles wide a fringe of reefs ...Bowermasters Adventures -- Becoming a French state
Dozens of small tri-colored French flags hang from the awning of the bar 5/5 on Mamoudzou's seafront. A Malagasy polka/country/blues/rock band plays to a mixed crowd of blacks and whites. Two weeks ago a historic vote turned the street out front into a riot of celebration ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Communing with hermit crabs
It is with great privilege and no small amount of humility that I spend as many days as I can on remote, uninhabited atolls. This Sunday morning it is in the Alphonse group of the Seychelles – south of the main granite islands of Mahe, Praslin and La Digue - and is ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- LaDigue
I often ask audiences to define paradise. While responses vary, a high percentage involves some combination of white sand beach, coconut palm and blue-blue sea scenario. It's so pervasive I've long been curious where the notion first originated. Honeymoon brochure? 1940s ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Pirates in Seychelles
Five a.m. on the Indian Ocean, a quarter mile off the small granite island of La Digue. Daylight is still an hour away, the sea flat and quiet, still too early for the call of morning birds and too dark for pirates. And pirates are on everyone's minds and lips here. Just ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Welcome to the Sea of Zanj!
Six to seven hundred years ago the very first to explore what we know as the Indian Ocean were Arabs, from Persia and the northern deserts. Searching what every sea-faring explorer of the time was seeking – trading routes and new lands to colonize – they ...SUBIOS, Seychelles' Annual Underwater Film and Image Festival
If you love the ocean, scuba diving, movies, island living and luxury than here is the perfect place for you. From March 19-25, SUBIOS, Seychelles' annual underwater film festival will take visitors on a unique excursion to the deep.
Expert cinematographers and ...Africa Travel: Seychelles
Before I go on about how fantastic the
archipelago in the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar better known as Seychelles is, let me just say all the islands off the coast of Africa
seem to have some fabulous kind of websites. Not that tourism websites make or break a ...
