3 Wochen Inselhüpfen Seychellen: Mahé, La Digue & Praslin

About the destination: Lying in the Indian Ocean, the Seychelles archipelago has passed in four centuries as a haven of pirates to become the destination dreamed by millions of travelers. Its 115 islands - only thirty are inhabited - have everything to love: sun all year round, tropical climate, coral beaches, an endemic flora and a valuable marine life. The essential route through this paradise visits Mahé, Praslin and La Digue, the islands that concentrate more services and also a greater diversity of attractions. The first stage of the voyage is the island of Mahé, the largest and the only island in the Seychelles. Just eleven kilometers away from Victoria, the capital, which offers the first contact with the islanders, friendly people with traits that denote a mixture of African, Chinese, Indian and European origins. This ethnic diversity has bequeathed a culinary, musical, architectural and artistic culture full of nuances and in which abound the legends of pirates. Anyone from the islands tells tourists about the exploits of John Taylor, Jean François Hodoul - the Château Mamelles, from 1804, was one of his two residences in Mahé - and other buccaneers who hid treasures with jewels and gold coins in some Place of the archipelago. The last known treasure is still found near the beach of Bel Ombre in Mahé. Several bus lines travel the island taking the small Victoria station as a starting point and arrival. Riding in these rudimentary vehicles is a great opportunity to share a seat with people coming and going to the Victoria market, local workers and students returning home at the end of the day. A few kilometers of route by bus and the traveler has already learned that it is imperative to shout "devant!" So that the driver stops.

About the destination: The island of La Digue is the fourth largest of the Seychelles, of which are inhabited. Its surface is of about 10 km2. It is located to the East of Praslin and West of Felicite Island. It has a population of about 2,000 people living, especially in the villages on the West Coast. The main economic activity that has the island is tourism, offering a focused exclusively on tourism of Sun and beach since its beaches attract all kinds of tourists who want to escape the stress still that tourists can learn more about the island in its Museum since saying shows that in former times copra and vanilla production was the main local economic activity.

About the destination: The island Praslin is the second in size of Seychelles. With a population that round up about 6,500 inhabitants. Praslin is known as a tourist destination of Sun and beach. Although the island is also a tropical forest with some endemic as Bulbul bird and the black Parrot animals, all of them are in the beautiful Valle de Mai nature reserve.