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Seychelles idyll for Royal Couple

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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 ...

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