Advantages: Unique world heritage site, species found nowhere else on Earth, love nuts in their natural environment, Garden of Eden??? Disadvantages: Gaggles of European tourists
Praslin is the second largest of the Seychelles inner islands, a beautiful sleepy isle fringed with white sandy beaches and turquoise waters. What Praslin is most famous for however, is not its award-winning beaches, but the Vallee de Mai. Situated in the heart of Praslin National Park, the Valle de Mai is one of the smallest natural UNESCO World Heritage sites. As the Seychelles are some of the oldest and most isolated islands in the world, the ... ...forest which once covered the ancient continent of Gondwanaland. Many plants here are endemic, and the area remained completely virgin forest until the 1930s, when the land was bought and "beautified", and many ornamental trees were added. These were thankfully removed when the government purchased the land in 1948, and the area was made into a nature reserve and gradually rehabilitated.
When I visited here I was taking a break from a work placement ...
VC81 13.10.2005 (19.09.2006)
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