We love a hike with a great view, and thankfully there’s plenty of elevation in Seychelles to keep us entertained. We arrived on our boat to cruise the Seychelles islands and spent almost three months there. While in Seychelles, we welcomed our first set of guests onboard, Vishnu, Frido, and their three-year-old daughter Ranju. Their…
We’ve been cruising around Seychelles, checking out the islands while having two groups of friends visit: Vishnu, Frido, and the three-year-old Ranju; and Kyle and Lauren. We’d already seen the coco de mer palm tree at Vallee de Mai in Praslin, and now it was time to see another endemic species: the Aldabra giant tortoise….
We’re in the midst of our cruising time in Seychelles, and one of our many highlights so far has been exploring Vallée de Mai, a park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Seychelles. The park is located on the island of Praslin, which is the second-largest island in Seychelles. It’s a 20-minute flight from Mahé…
Our time cruising the Maldives is over! We entered the country on March 27th, 2019 and left May 22, 2019, for a total of 56 days cruising from north to south. Snorkeling & Diving With the exception of the megafauna (whale sharks and manta rays), the underwater life in the Maldives was very disappointing. There…
After two months of cruising the Maldives, we made the short hop from Gan to the archipelago of Chagos. We left Gan May 23rd, after waiting to fill our propane tank, which took nearly a week! (We should have done it in Male). After less than three days of very light winds and mostly motoring,…
After eight weeks in the Maldives, I can easily say Dhigurah Island in the southern part of Ari Atoll was my favorite stop. What made it so wonderful? It’s a little bit of all the best in the Maldives. Tourism in the Maldives is HUGE, but much of it is private island resorts. There are…
One of the things I have always loved about cruising is that we go to places that are very hard or impossible for a normal tourist to visit. For example, Beveridge Reef or the Lau Group of Fiji. In planning our Indian Ocean crossing, we had one special stop that we set our sights on:…
Despite trying to swim with whale sharks in Ningaloo, and actively looking for them while sailing up Southeast Asia, I never managed to get a swim in with these amazing animals. While, yes, technically I did swim with one in the Maldives, it wasn’t quite the experience I was hoping for. In Ari Atoll, whale sharks…