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Seychelles (SC) |
| Continent: |
Africa |
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| Surface: |
455 km ² |
| Inhabitants: |
80.832 |
| Capital: |
Victoria |
International banking code (ISO Codes): |
SC |
| Official language: |
French and English |
Code: |
+248 |
| Currency: |
Rupee seychelloise |
Number plate: |
SY |
| Routes of Seychelles: |
118 |
Routes towards Seychelles: |
300 |
| Preferred airports: |
Mahe (SEZ), Praslin (PRI) |
| Principal cities: |
Victoria, Beautiful Shade, Beautiful Small valley, Handle Volbert Village, Handle Royal, Boileau Handle, Donja Mahala, Glaud Port, Misery, Machabee, the Hope, the Meeting, De Quincey Village, Cascades, Takamaka |
| Airline company based with Seychelles: |
Air Seychelles |
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Tourist guide Seychelles (Africa) |
Seychelles are an archipelago of 115 islands, from which only about thirty are inhabited, located in the Indian Ocean, in the North-East of Madagascar and approximately 1.600 km in the east of Kenya.
Geography: there is habit to divide the islands of the archipelago of Seychelles according to their geological nature and their positioning. They are either of coral nature, or of granitic nature and they make or left the close islands, a regrouping of forty islands, or they belong to the distant islands. The archipelago is universally famous for its beauty and fact part of the natural sites classified with the inheritance of UNESCO. One finds there a flora and a fauna endemic of a great richness and a large variety. The culminating point of the island, Dull Seychellois, is drawn up on Mahé with the average altitude of 905 Mr.
Climate and period of voyage advised: it reigns on the archipelago a tropical climate influenced by the relative proximity with the equator. The temperatures day laborers are relatively constant and oscillate between 24°C and 30°C and the content water of the air turns around 80%. Precipitations are to be feared only between January and February.
Official languages and spoken languages: the official languages are French and English, but the population very largely uses the local Creole.
Health and vaccinations: generally one advises with the travellers to be made vaccinate against hepatitis has, typhus, the polio, the diphteria and tetanus. To prevent the viral diseases transmitted by the insects and the mosquitos, it is in general enough to cover well and apply products anti-insects available on the spot. In Seychelles, the risk to contract paludism is non-existent. The health system is in addition satisfactory in the principal cities of Mahé, Praslin and the Dam. Nevertheless, it is advised to contract a insurance-voyage including/understanding a insurance-repatriation for the most serious cases. For more safety and to avoid risks of infection, it is recommended to consume only bottled water, to peel the fruits well and to make cook vegetables before consuming them. Lastly, think of providing you with a first-aid kit of voyage.
Conditions of entry on the territory: for the French nationals and one duration of stay envisaged lower than 3 months, a valid passport is enough to penetrate on the territory seychellois. A visa of short stay will be delivered by the local authorities on arrival with the airport on document in proof of a plane ticket return and a sufficient sum to cover subsistence expenses. The minor travellers must be provided with an individual passport.
For further information concerning vaccinations, the conditions of entry and safety, you can for example consult the site of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Travel and transport: at the present time, the airline companies Air France (AF) and Air Seychelles (HM) propose direct flights of Paris (CDG) bound for the international airport of Mahé (SEZ). Other international companies propose flights including/understanding one or two stopovers, among which one can quote Alitalia (AZ), Qatar Airways (QR) and British Airways (BA).
Tourist sites and places of bathe: the close islands or interior islands, of which most important are Mahé, Praslin and the dam, gather nearly 98% of the population of the archipelago. Among the other close islands, some are inhabited, others, under the terms of the protection whose archipelago is the object, can be visited only after obtaining an authorization of the local authorities and within organized groups.
Largest of the islands of the archipelago, Mahé, as a capital the town of Victoria has who counts nearly 60.000 inhabitants. Victoria is characterized by her colonial architecture and offers some interesting visits such as that of the national museum which exposes objects having milked to the period of slavery or the flibustery or that of the weekly market on which one can buy all that the area produces of exotic fruits. The amateurs of bathe will go rather on the west coast of the island, less populated and of an impressive wild beauty.
Praslin, the second larger island of the archipelago shelters celebrates it “Coconut of the seas”, a species of palm tree which one finds only in Seychelles. The bay of Lazio, whose reputation is not any more to make, is in the north of the island and offers a paradisiac landscape of an indescribable beauty. Sand is whiter there and more end that everywhere else and the sea of a single turquoise blue. The beaches of the surroundings are protected by a coral reef which forms a kind of giant sea water bath-tub délicieusement hot. This does not have escaped with the tourists, and the word of mount makes that these beaches throughout the year assiduously are now attended.
The Dam, the island close to Praslin enorgueillit to have one of prettiest bays of the world. The bay, hoisted with the row of emblem of Seychelles, is in a wild place, completely isolated and is framed by granite walls which one can admire on all the postcards of the area, in the absence of being able to go there. The island also has the great advantage of not counting many cars and the transport of the people made there still largely by means of carts drawn by oxen.
Seychelles are also known to be a paradise for the birds among which many endemic species which live only in this area. The Aride island, located at 10 km in the east of Praslin constitutes the place of laying of more than one million birds. The island accommodates in particular more than 10 species of gulls and some species in the process of disappearance such as the frigates.
With not missing: the atoll of Aldabra is one of the most beautiful sites of diving of Seychelles. It extends on 22 km and profits from a particular protection from UNESCO. One can go there only on special permit and the only people authorized to remain there, only at ends of research, are scientists whose stay is limited to three months per annum. On the island push more than 200 kinds of endemic plants and the island constitutes the single place of laying of the giant tortoises.
Religion: the population of the archipelago is Christian to 98%.
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Flights expensive not preferred towards and of Seychelles/SC
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