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Lokaltime: |
GMT plus 4 hours, MEZ
plus 3 hours, MESZ plus 2 hours. |
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Entry: |
Visa until 4 weeks stay
(you can prolong) and a passport with at least 6 months validity. Persons
above 18 years may be imported 400 cigarettes, 2 litres alcohol and articles
up to a value of 3000 SR. |
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Departure: |
Travellers over 12 years
must prove with a coupon on departure, that the passenger service charges
(US$ 40 in 2003) was paid in a hotel, at banks or at the airport. Turtle
tanks and objects from tortoiseshell, corals may not be exported. For the
exportation of a Coco de Mer it requires a written approval which you receives
among authorized sellers. |
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Journey: |
The international Airport
is located in "Point La Rue" on Mahé. The flight transfer after
Alphonse and Desroches lasts for about 45 minutes. |
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Language: |
Creole is a mixing language,
consisting of the original dialects and the colonial language and remind
therefore always strongly of French in the Seychelles. They Seychellois
understand, however, also French and English on the tourist islands. |
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Religion: |
90 per cent of the population
is already Roman Catholics, nevertheless many Seychellois are still very
superstitious and believe in mysticism and sorcery. |
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Population: |
Rounds 80,000 Seychellois
up (Creole "Seselwa") lives alltogether on 115 islands, about
90 per cent of this on the two main islands of Mahé and Praslin. |
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Travel time: |
Recommendable is May until October.
The most dryly months are June, July and August, the most precipitations
fall in December and January. Short showers of rain must always be calculated. |
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Climate: |
Tropically warm climate.
During the southeast monsoon of the end of May until September the air
is cooler and drier, during the northwest monsoon of October until May
the air is warmer and damper. |
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Clima grafics: |
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History: |
800 AD landed the first
Arab seafarers. 1501 a Portuguese seafarer discoveredthe Farquhar archipelago.
1502 Vasco da Gama discovered the Seychelles. 1756 the Irish captain Corneille
Nicolas Morphey declared the islands as French possession. 1811 be the
Seychelles annexed by the Brits. 1875 become the Seychelles to an exile
place. 1903 the Seychelles become a British crown colony. 1934 first money
of one's own. 1948 first right to vote. 1970 first one constitution. 1976
the Seychelles attain the independence. 1977 government revolt. 1981 attempted
putsch of South African mercenaries fails and in 1993 there was an increase
party choice after 16 years again. |
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Tides: |
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Mobile telephon: |
Mobile telephone works
only on the most Inner Islands. |
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Internet: |
The Internet is very slowly
and sometimes for days not available on the islands. It gives 2 Internet
café in Victoria and it cost 2 Euros for 15 minutes (stand 2003). |
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Holidays: |
January 1st and 2nd (New
Year), Good Friday, May 1st (day of the work), Corpus Christi, June 5th
(day of the liberation), June 18th (national holiday), June 29th (independence
day), August 15th (Ascension Day), November 1st (All Saints' Day), 8. December
(Maria conception) and 25. December (Christmas). |
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Diving: |
Middle view and water
temperatures between 26 and 29 degrees centigrade, in some places at times
cold depth flows. Great richness in fish and often also big fish up to
the Tiger Shark and Sperm Whale. |
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Snorkels: |
Since El Ninjo the corals
are here also no longer so beautiful but there is often to see whale sharks
between October and April. |
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Geografical position: |
Of 3° 43' up to 10° 8'
southern breadth and of 46° 10' up to 56° 20' eastern length in the Indian
ocean. |
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The islands: |
Sea area of 1 million
km², land area 454 km². The Inner Islands consists of granite rocks and
the 905 metres high Morne Seychellois is the highest elevation in the east
of Victoria on Mahé, the Outer Islands are low coral islands. |
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National parks: |
The Aldabra atoll, the
islands Aride, Cousin and Curieuse are completely under conservation. There
are however also other nature reserves, as the Morne Seychellois national
park and the Valleé de May on Praslin (absolute smoking ban!), as well
as the sea national parks, like the 80 hectares great Baie Ternay at the
westernmost end of Mahé (preferential spawning ground of the Karett turtles)
and parts of the sea in front of Praslin, as well as the mangrove woods
in the Turtle Bay. |
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Coco de Mer: |
The biggest coconut the
world, the up to 20 kg heavy "Coco de Mer" grows only on Praslin
and Curieuse, but a couple of copies are also in the botanic garden in
Victoria. Approximately 3000 pieces are sold to tourists by it (only by
a written exportation approval) every year. |
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Flora: |
All islands are covered
luxuriantly, the greatest variety of species if mixed already with imported
species, too, grows, however, on Mahé. The original "cloud forests"
still thrive in the higher areas. |
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Fauna: |
Giant turtles (the best
known is Esmeralda on Bird Island and she is 300 kg heavily and between
120 and 150 years old), lizards, salamanders, geckos and a huge number
and species of birds, among this also the Great Frigatebird with up to
2 metres of span width. |
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Food: |
Additionally to international
kitchen in the hotels you should eat absolutely also local specialities,
as bouyon bred (Chinese cabbage soup), lasoup pwason (fish-soup), lasoup
tektek (mussel soup), kari pwason (fish curry), kari zourit (Octopus curry),
pwason griye (grilled fish), pwason sale (spicy dried fish) and ladob banan
(bananas cooked into coconut milk). To this satini is also served. These
are Chutneys from native fruits, but you should never eat this Chutney,
the satini reken, because this is a Shark Chutney! |
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