Praslin Charter Itinerary

Praslin Itinerary

Praslin Yacht Charter
The inner Seychelles are granite, not coral, which is why they look like nowhere else in the Indian Ocean ’ great weathered boulders standing in shallow water, forest running down to the sand. The islands sit close together, so a week here is spent at anchor rather than on passage.





This route works outward from Praslin: a tortoise sanctuary, a car-free island where the bicycle is the only sensible transport, a private island given over to conservation, and a final day among palms that grow nowhere else on earth.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Seychelles; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Praslin & Curieuse

Begin on Praslin and cross almost at once to Curieuse, an island of red earth and Aldabra giant tortoises that move through the scrub entirely unbothered by visitors. The ruins of a leper colony sit at one end, quietly reclaimed. Finish the day at anchor off Anse Lazio, which has a fair claim to the best beach in the country.
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Day 2

La Digue

La Digue keeps almost no cars. You land, you take a bicycle, and the island slows you down accordingly. Ride past the coconut plantations to Anse Source d’Argent, where granite boulders the size of houses stand in water a metre deep. It is the most photographed beach in the Seychelles and, unusually, better in person.
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Day 3

Fregate

Fregate is private, and run as much for the birds as for the guests. The island brought the Seychelles magpie robin back from the edge of extinction, and it shows: the forest is loud. Anse Victorin is the beach, empty and steeply shelving. Come ashore, walk the trails, and leave the place as you found it.
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Day 4

Fregate

A second day earns the island’s quieter corners. Hike the ridge for the long view over the reef, snorkel the granite drop-offs where the fish are unafraid, and watch for tortoises grazing the lawns at dusk. Dinner aboard, the anchorage entirely your own, and nothing on the water but the two of you and the stars.
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Day 5

Baie Lazare

Cross to Mahé and into Baie Lazare, a wide, shallow bay on the south-west coast where the water stays warm and flat. The sand here is unusually fine. Swim, snorkel the fringing reef, and take the tender ashore for lunch. An easy day, deliberately ’ the Seychelles reward a slower gear.
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Day 6

Thérèse

Thérèse Island lies just off Mahé’s west coast, twin rocky peaks rising from a coral shelf. The snorkelling is the best of the week, the fishing serious, and the island itself uninhabited. Take the tender through the shallows at slack tide, then swim until the light turns and the peaks throw their shadow over the anchorage.
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Day 7

Praslin

Return to Praslin for the Vallée de Mai, a prehistoric forest where the coco de mer grows ’ the largest seed of any plant on earth, and long the subject of some enthusiastic speculation. Walk it in the cool of the morning. Then a last swim at Anse Lazio, and the Seychelles let you go.
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