Back in the 1500's, explorers from the early Portuguese mariners were fascinated with the beauty of the Seychelles and its enchanting combination of coral and granite islands and atolls.
Today, visitors are enchanted by its wonderfully relaxed Creole atmosphere, delicious Indian Ocean flavours and easy going islander way of life.
- The Seychelles are made up of 115 islands. These islands lie between four and ten degrees south of the equator in the Indian Ocean - only 60 of them are inhabited.
- The Outer Islands (considered the vanilla islands of the Indian Ocean) are largely unexplored and unpopulated thanks to their remote location.
- Today, 40% of the total land mass of the Seychelles is formally protected and conserved.
- The country is blessed with one of the world’s healthiest, malaria free climates.
- Visitors get the the feeling that they are in one long, endless summer with temperatures seldom dropping below 22°C or rising above 32°C.
- Over the centuries, the country has been ruled by the French and the British, and populated with a mix of cultures from around the region.
- In 1976, Seychelles became an independent republic with a stable democracy which now has 82,000 people inhabiting the country.
- Seychelles is one of the world’s most peaceful places on earth.
- Seychelles is only a four and a half hour flight from Dubai, Abu Dabi, Doha, Johannesburg and is serviced with regular international flights from Europe, the United States, Africa and Asia. (It has a similar time zone to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.)
- The country has a policy of low volume tourism so is never overcrowded.
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