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La Digue boasts some of the world’s most stunning and most photogenic beaches, complete with sculptural granite boulders and tropical palms at the water’s edge. Bicycles frequent the dusty roads and ox carts and picturesque plantation houses are glimpsed through lush foliage. Accessible by boat (30 minutes from Praslin) or by helicopter, it is easily visited for the day. Inland the woods are full of rare and exotic plants and the island is the only nesting place of the rare Black Paradise Flycatcher. Beyond La Digue are a number of away-from-it-all island retreats, including North, Desroches, Bird, Denis and Frégate.
• Accommodation in La Digue & Other Islands
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All flights arrive into Mahé, the hub of the Seychelles and home to 90% of its population. In contrast to the pared down lifestyle of the smaller islands, Mahé could almost be described as bustling and even has nightlife of sorts. This is the ideal island for the active, as watersports centres, dive centres, game fishing and yacht charters abound. In a few days on Mahé, you could visit the Botanical Gardens, take a nature trail in the mountains of the National Parks, go diving or simply laze on one of the 75 beaches!
• Accommodation in Mahé
• Safari tours in Mahé
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Praslin is the second largest inhabited island in the archipelago, at seven miles by two and a half, and is a 15-minute flight from Mahé. You can also enjoy island-hopping onto La Digue.
Believed by some to be the original Garden of Eden, it is home to one of the Seychelles' two World Heritage sites, the Vallée de Mai, a primeval rainforest containing numerous species of palms - including the unique Coco de Mer palm, notorious for its suggestive-shaped fruit. You can watch turtle eggs hatch at a sheltered nesting site and hunt through virgin forest for some of the world's rarest birds - the Seychelles Bulbul, the Fruit Pigeon and the Black Parrot.
• Accommodation in Praslin
• Safari tours in Praslin
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