Isole del Parco Marino di St. Anne a Mahé
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Dreaming beaches at Seychelles Islands
This time we left in 4, I B Cristina, Cristina V. and Melissa. As always the trip I organized I in previous months, I have found the best fare on the web and then I went to CTS to purchase the tickets (€ 675.00 intercontinental flights with Qatar via Doha Air + € 30.00 for CTS enrollment and approximately € 70.00 x internal flight Mahé PRASLIN including agency fees) finally I have booked accommodation on the different islands through internet, and now here we are ... finally after so many years that we wanted to go .. Seychelles to!
Arrival in Mahe' and transfer to Praslin
.... after about 5 hours of flight we arrived in Doha, it is early morning and is not so hot. The airport is brand new and not yet fully completed. We make a stop a couple of hours and then ridecolliamo. More about 5 hours of flight and arrive at Mahè. Are about 14.15, we are punctual .. indeed, perhaps even in advance. The flight had the x
PRASLIN reserved for 17:30 so as not to run risks in the event of delays, but now the idea of waiting so much land here as the waiting area of domestic flights is out and makes a crazy hot! We go immediately to inform us if we can anticipate the flight and tell us to wait ... Fortunately around 16 call us, we deliver boarding passes that are reusable pieces of plastic and make us sit in a room. Let's look at the track and in front there are only a couple of very tiny air ... who knows what we? We do not even have time to formulate this thought that we spend a cart with our bags and head towards its one of them. Shortly after we are out on the track and go up. At the suggestion of some friends who were already c'rano I choose a seat on the left so you can see well and take some photos of the park from St. Anne. As soon as we are all on board off ... the islets from the park this year are wonderful and amazing colors of the sea ... fantastic! After about 20 minutes we are already on the track of tiny airport of
PRASLIN. Let cons passports here and here .... the first coco de mer x that I see printed always on my passport! Retrieve their bags ... Mine is the last and almost almost hoping there is more .... a crazy hot and there is a lot of moisture ... just go out and take a taxi to bring us we booked the hotel Casa De Master which is a few kilometers from there, and in fact in a couple of minutes we arrive (taxi € 10 ... if it was not so hot you could also go to feet).
At first glance from the outside looks very nice, well kept and with a great park in front but there is no one around .. neither tourists nor employees .. then comes a boy who accompanies us to the reception and we will record .. do not seem to know nothing of our reservation, but there are no problems and accompanies us to our rooms.
Unfortunately, we assign 2 to the ground floor, we would have preferred the second floor in order to have fewer problems with insects and various animals from the garden, but never mind.
As soon as we enter the room the feeling is not the best because although it's all very clean and orderly environment is a 'gloomy and dark, the furniture is very old-fashioned type furniture of my grandparents and it is very essential but only a first impression, because then we are well and in the end we are a sorry lot going on.
I try to send an sms but not at home so we can try to call but you only hear a noise and we can not understand .. I surrender so hoping that the situation improved in the coming days .. maybe there is a failure or some interference by now that Mahè I was able to send a sms without any problems.
After a quick shower and a fitted decide to go out for a walk x ex dinner. We head towards the village we see some grocery stores, a couple of banks and a distributor. Shortly after we approached a guy who wants to change the money and even if we do not inspire much confidence because it seems a little 'out of it and take advantage change 100 in 4 to 11 after a brief negotiation. Now that the money we are entering a grocery store and buy a phone card but even with this we can not call ... I do not know if we Imbranato or if we are the cabins that have problems ... va bè ... patience .. The type of the store asked us if we want to change and offers us the change to 12 so we decide that the next change them money from him.
A little later, after trying other booths around us without result we find a place to eat. The restaurants in the area is not much, and while mediamo where to go find a couple of Italians who are going to dinner and we advise them to go to the Britannia Restaurant, and so do. The place is nice, almost luxurious compared to the restaurant we had seen along the road. In the menu there is lots of choice, we decide to take the fish fillet with vegetables and it's all good.
After dinner we are pretty tired so we exchange chat with a couple who had accompanied us then we return to our hotel. Fortunately we have batteries because where there are no street lamps, the darkness is absolute but fortunately there is a wide sidewalk along the route then at least do not run the risk that we invest. Just returned to the hotel we sit a little 'out of them where there is a sitting room and do a' stock of the situation thinking about where to go the next day and then go to bed because we are cooked.
In the room there are 32 without air conditioning and then turn the blade over to the bed but it is pretty hot himself. Fortunately for me that the heat not bother!
Ferry booking and cotè d'or
As always on vacation we wake up early and get ready to go now x in exploration of the island. In the garden where we should have breakfast there is only one table and then assume they are the only hotel guests around ... but there is no one not even the staff .. speriamo bene .... we sit in hope that someone is finally around 8 appears the boy of the evening before. Order eggs and coffee, and after some 'bring us fresh fruit, toast, jam a microscopic portion of eggs and a Sottilette each.
It is not very abundant but satisfied by dividing the crumbs with our unique table companions ... the birds ...
After breakfast, we ask if we can book the tickets for Anse Georgette x the next day, asking about the bus stop and then we move.
First stop at the jetty where we inform you on the ferry x
LA DIGUE ex Mahè return a book and x is the one that x another.
Return bus direction Anse Volbert and descend near the ice cream so much vaunted by Luke from other travelers. Even here in Grande Anse as there is no much of shops, some food and a few souvenirs but nothing chè, the beach is very nice but not the splendor of which I had heard, probably due to the fact that in these days is full of algae and the water is not clear. The sand is still a dazzling white.
We placed in the shade of a tree near the diving Sagittarius Water Sports and in front of the pizzeria Berjaya
PRASLIN Beach Hotel.
We left them all afternoon, a few walks along the beach, lying in the shade because the sun from neck die and we did not want to run the risk of Scott. Near the park there was also a kind of fair in San Valentino and we spent the time to look at the people dressed in their Sunday best, who walked among the stalls of many things to eat, baskets and bouquets of flowers and miscellaneous products. Obviously for them it is a very important festival and heard.
There were also a lot of girls, one of the most beautiful that I took lots of photos. Observing, we realized that they are much more free and independent of our shares because the saw go by themselves or in small groups, without the shadow of a parent who take the watch, although they were rather small d ' age ... already from this we have realized that life here surely must not be dangerous as we are and perhaps much better, because basically the island is not very big and certainly you will know a little 'all. Blessed are they ...
By mid afternoon we were tired and we decided to take the bus to get some 'on the beach in front of our hotel.
I open a parenthesis on the bus: Almost everyone, who more or less are quite Scassa and more drivers are crazy to tie .. we have fun a lot to take but if we do not think I know how to be safe because they splinter and the roads are almost always very close, where the asphalt ends, there is no grass, but almost always empty or a the sea or a channel, etc.. If that was not enough if you make the internal journey there are many back and the road has a significant slope. But they are convenient to get around the island and it is worth taking them because they are also used by local and then you have to know how even a po 'more people.
Closed parenthesis ... we return to our beach.
To reach the beach of Grande Anse by our hotel just across the street and walk a short trail that goes through a kind of forest full of coconut trees and a very dense vegetation.
The beach is deserted, not very large but long and beautiful.
Contrary to what I had said in many there is not even the shadow of algae .. the water is clear and still, it seems a mirror and it is hot and of course not resist taking advantage of the fact that the sun is not hot so much we do a nice bathroom.
You are too good .. shadow of shame that there is so little it would be them all day from morning to evening.
Only the terrible sins sunflies ...
But it is really beautiful .. remain until sunset, which falls precisely in that direction then return us to the hotel for a shower and change x dinner.
We know that x tomorrow you can not go to Georgette but assures us that x tries to ask again the next day. We also ask if the following days you can have breakfast at least 7:30 for us because we get up early and we would like to use the day starting as soon as possible.
X dinner this evening we decide to go to the Sunset Cafe, but unfortunately it is closed and then opt for a take away after distant. The choice is somewhat 'but we spend a miserable nonsense for a box with a mountain of rice, a little' of vegetables and pieces of fish sauce. I eat them in small tables outside and then we take a coffee bar in the side. Let's go back to the hotel and we sit in "our" living room taking advantage of the fact that we are still the only guests we stop them outside to play cards and Jenga up late doing a little 'too much confusion.
Vallee de Mai and Anse Lazio
This morning we decided to go and see the famous Valle de Mai. Take the bus which stops in front of the entrance of the park and decide to girarcela alone without guidance. Before you sprinkle plenty of mosquito spray x because there are many then we are.
At the entrance there are exposed immediately Coco de Mer and we pause for a moment then continue photographing map hand wing. The forest is beautiful, the sun filters so even if it's very hot at least we are in the shade. We do everything the way we had decided up to a vantage point where we stop for a moment to rest. The view is beautiful but limited to the valley covered with forests of the sea and its splendid colors do not see much. We remain seated for a moment then we move towards the exit where we stop for a moment x buy water and make a stop at the toilets then we see that the bus is coming and we rushed to take it. Next stop the bus or Anse Lazio. In reality the bus as it leaves us knew very distant from the beach and then we leave conscious of what awaits us ... to tell the truth is worse than we thought because the road has increased by pulling die and many pieces are in the sun and then after a while 'we are already destroyed. Finally, after yet another climb in the distance we see the mare with color indescribable, really beautiful, thank goodness ... after so much effort, at least it's worth it .. down the final stretch and we arrive on a beautiful beach with a couple of restaurants and lots of tourists ... sin .. the sea has wonderful color to the sides ... and there are clusters of rocks that make the landscape even more beautiful.
We moved into a corner under the branches of a tree ... we still afraid of burning .. the sun burns really a mess! That paradise .... almost does not seem true to finally be here ... remain some 'shade to read and then talk turns to go for a walk all the way to the beach x take some photos.
Session under my tree at some point I passed 2 guys with something on my shoulders that I could not understand what a good looking better then I realized that was a huge amount of octopusses just caught ... I had not ever seen so much at once even fish!
The day passed quickly, and at some point it comes time to turn back even if the idea to redo all the uphill walk is not very attractive to us but we are ... We arrive at the bus stop definitely destroyed .. The idea originally was to go x go to see a viewpoint not far but the bus to arrive late and too tired at the end we decide to go home ...
Tonight we can finally prove the Sunset Café .. the service is very slow (there is a lady very seriously and BRONTOLON serving at the table with an incredible coolness) but eventually the food is excellent and it spends too little.
End the evening in "our" living room as usual and plan to play tomorrow. If there are no unexpected tomorrow finally we're going to the famous beach of Anse Georgette!
Anse Georgette
After the usual breakfast we are opening the bus in the opposite direction to the usual Lemuria Hotel where you will find this much-vaunted beach of Anse Georgette ...
Go right in front of the road that leads to the resort, after a walk (both x change) arrivaiare the gate and you've checked our booking us to come ... turn a little 'around in search of the path that leads to the beach and finally found him on the right next to the golf course, trail course and asphalt, but full of steep climbs and descents x often come to the sun and after a while' we are already dissolved but continue undeterred and even if finally exhausted after forty minutes we arrived at the beach .... There are no words to describe the beauty ... there is no comparison with Anse Lazio, this is a small paradise on earth. The beach is a half moon surrounded by rocks, the sand is white and the water of the sea despite the waves is rather high for an incredible blue-green and clear ... even when we had six in fantastic colors, even where they touch and the sea continues to see the feet ... As I said there are no words that can describe this wonder ... and if I say that the beautiful seas I saw lots of them (from the ocean Caribbean Indian, from the 'barrier to Australian Polynesian lagoons, etc. ...).. well believe me!
Moreover there is no one ... really too good!
We placed in the shade of a tree as usual because the sun does not resist and we enjoy this corner of paradise ...
Unfortunately during the day but other tourists arrive x little luck and bring on the side opposite to us so do not disturb us at all.
As we reach them a boat and go down three men who reach the beach to swim and then climb along a trail up the hill that borders the beach on the right side and return only after some time. Who knows where they went ... I think that might be the path which I had heard that 2-hour walk is not easy to lead to anse Lazio ... so, intrigued me and Chris B. just go away we decide to try to climb too. Unfortunately, Madonna .... as if there were not enough to walk to get to the beach x ..... Moreover, with sandals are slides from dying because the trail is steep at certain points ... almost vertical, and sandy ... obviously everything under the sun but we do not give up ... do not come and tell you under what conditions .. in or near the top. The view is beautiful ... you can see the whole beach from ... that color .... too good ... Meli and Cri V. are two points that we welcome .... my mom if we think that we have since come back down there at the risk of slipping across the x rolling hills among the rocks ... better go ... Just find a tree try to put a minute rest in the shade .. x shadow so to say ... then continue a little 'but at some point a huge spider web with a spider of palms including bar there and the way we decide to go back reluctantly. The landscape is truly amazing that the sea ... .. this time also it was worth it to sweat so much!
Good or very bad fright and a few stretch done with the land we manage to sit back down ... We are destroyed and there buttiam x orin cool sea ..... wonderful .....
Unfortunately, the hard and long walk intrappresa x arrive to the beach and then we have to consume more water than expected during the day so we rationed the little remaining water and suffer a 'thirst. What is more at some point come from 2 golf cars they download for other tourists in the beach resort guests surely, baskets picnic and portable refrigerators with bottles and glasses in the glass and to us nothing more than looking at dry mouth from a distance while you drained a lot of stuff!