The trails are well maintained and it is easy to bike over them. Most are also illuminated at night.
Alphonse, 21/04/03, Day 2
Biking on Alphonse atoll (Almirantes islands, Seychelles)
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The trails are well maintained and it is easy to bike over them. Most are also illuminated at night. |
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The central part of the atoll is dense covered by pal-trees and other vegetation. In the past years, before the tourism industry, the main activity on the island was growing palms, getting and working all their subproducts. |
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| Again, I'm face to face with a quite big Seychelles spider. |
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| At the end of the trail, I arrive to another beautiful deserted beach. Indeed, the entire island is surrounded by a continuous beach of white sand, of variable width. |
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| A group of birds walk on the beach. Today the sea is very calm and the water very crystalline. |
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| A very nice crab looks at my camera for a moment, then runs away quickly. |
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Turning around the island, I arrive at the end of the runway used for aircraft operations. Using a parallel track, I soon arrive to the opposite side where I can see the airplane arriving from Mahe' landing and taxiing to the terminal. The runway runs from one side of the island to the other and the beach is very close to both the ends. |
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| An heron on the beach. |
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| The tide is again low and I decide to walk far away from the island, toward the reef. During the walk, the level of the water will be never higher than half of my legs. |
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From this distance, during the low tide, I can see the entire island and the reef is still quite far fom here. Sometimes, there are pools between half and one meter deep, where several fishes remain trapped inside, until the next high tide will free them again. On the left picture, a beautiful stingray swimming in low water. |
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| The day ends with a visit to the ancient cemetery, where I can see also a beautiful papaya tree with a lot of fruits on its trunk. |
SEYCHELLES PICTURES |
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ALPHONSE - An incredible wonder, part of the Amirantes group, about 400 Km southwest of Mahe'. Characterized by a huge lagoon and surrounded by sandy flats, it can also be used as a base for sightseeing and fly flishing trips to the nearby paradise of St. Francois, the kingdom of the mangroves and giant crabs. ALPHONSE DAY 1 | DAY 2 | DAY 3 | DAY 4 |
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LA DIGUE - A granitic island where the time seems frozen at the past century. Can be entirely visited by bike and with its many opportunities for hiking and trekking, offers a lot of activities for either adventurous travellers and for who prefers to relax on a beach doing swimming and snorkeling. LA DIGUE DAY 1 | DAY 2 | DAY 3 | DAY 4 |
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PRASLIN - Another granitic island, home of the world's only population of Coco De Mer tree, is also characterized by many white-sand beaches and can be used as a convenient base for several daytrips to the nearby islands. |
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BIRD - A lovely paradise for bird watching and birding tours, hiking, swimming and snorkeling. Home of Esmerlada, a tortoise about 200 years old, this coralline island also hosts a colony of Sooty Terns coming here annually to feed and to grow their chicks. A large beach of pure-white sand surrounds the entire island for a circumference of about 5 kilometers. BIRD DAY 1 | DAY 2 | DAY 3 | DAY 4 |
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