The Lemuria Resort is 5-star De-luxe Resort, situated only 5 minutes away from Praslin airport. With an idyllic location the spa and golf resort provides its guests the highest standard of luxury and comfort. The lush vegetation and the sandy beaches make for a beautiful holiday destination.

The hotel offers 104 suites blend into the surrounding the outstanding beauty of the Seychelles. The architecture and interior design were created with natural materials such as wood, stone, pink granite and thatch. Each stylish designed suite has a wide veranda and every facility including air-conditioning, TV, CD players and bath, shower and luxurious lotions in the en-suite bathrooms.

 
Resort’ Activities
The beaches are sheltered and water calm and it is ideal for water sports, such as: snorkeling, sailing, boat excursions, scuba-diving and deep-sea fishing. For golf lovers, the resort offers the Seychelles only 18-hole Championship golf course. Also there is two tennis courts, two restaurants and spa.

Cocos Islands are discovered in 1609, they were settled and owned by a single family from 1872 until the Australian Government acquired them in 1978. A pristine white beach is so typical of the beautiful Cocos Islands. The 27 coral islands are formed into two large, heavily vegetated atolls. They are the only atolls that Darwin ever visited but the coral ecosystem remains intact – and you can still see in their pristine conditions, exactly why they played such an important part in his theory of evolution.

North Keeling, set apart from the other islands, isn’t even inhabited, but you can come across extreme rarities like the Cocos buff-banded rail, robber land crabs, and both green and hawksbill turtles among other wonders, under its protection as Pulu Keeling National Park.

The Cocos islanders live on Home and West Islands, both given over to copra and coconut plantations that only add to their tropical glamour. There is no tourist industry at all. Wild place populated with divers and kite-surfers. However there are facilities for visitors, sponsored by the islanders who take in personal interest everyone who come. If you happen to be there, you are welcome to participate in the school fete, sports day or concert night. The tradition of hospitality is both, Australian and Malay.

The islanders, as much as the islands themselves, have retained a form of unpolluted innocence, and share a mutual respect that visitors immediately respond to. These islands are a dreamscape worthy to travel for.
When to go: Year-round. The winds last from April to September. But between that period the islands is second home for professional kite maniacs. Rain is most intense between March and July and usually falls in the evening after long sunny day. Population: 446. Getting there: By air, from Perth, to West Island, Cocos Islands. Photos by: Christian Bartens

Africa’s least-populous sovereign state is the Republic of Seychelles, another of the Indian Ocean’s fairly numerous island nations. Officially there are over 150 islands in the Seychelles, comprising of a mix of granite and coral islands located 1,500 km to the north east of Madagascar. Other neighbours include Mauritius, Reunion, Zanzibar, Comoros, Mayotte and the Maldives. The Seychellian people are often described as the world’s friendliest people. Photo by: rokbeat

Mahe is the largest island, in the north of the archipelago. It has the capital city of Victoria and has 90 per cent of the country’s population. Settlements are concentrated in the north and east, while the south and west are occupied by the Baie Ternay Marine National Park and Port Launay Marine National Park. Some visitors who pass through Mahe on the way to resorts are missing something – the place is breathtaking, with towering mountains, abundant tropical vegetation and empty awesome beaches. Photo by: mojo621

Victoria is the world’s smallest capital city, and its quaint streets and old harbour can easily be explored on foot. The market is often six days a week and local crafts are on sale alongside a wide range of fruit, vegetables and fish. It is possible to take a boat tour of the St Anne Marine Park from Victoria Harbour, covering six offshore islands that features an important nesting site for hawksbill turtles. Photo by: bodji

When to go: All year round – the climate is evenly hot and humid. Even during the rainy season (January and February) there is plenty of sunshine. Population: 72,000. How to get there: Various international carriers fly to Mahe. Photo by: angrydentist

Perfectly situated amid a beautiful turquoise lagoon, Komandoo Island with its superb sandy beaches is an immensely attractive tropical holiday destination. Spectacular sunsets, soft white beaches and an aquamarine lagoon with exciting diving combine to make Komandoo a popular island honeymoon destination. This is an intimately romantic getaway for two, where you can celebrate your love for each other…

Komandoo Island Resort offers excellent accommodation with beautiful 45 beach villas. Each villa has a private sun terrace that overlooks the soft powdery white sand and turquoise crystal clear waters of the Indian Ocean. Amenities includes partly open air bathroom equipped with hair dryer, air conditioning, safe, telephone, beach towel, CD player and coffee/tea maker.
 

Water sports are extremely popular in this island resort. Komandoo boasts world class scuba diving and a Pro Divers PADI five star dive facility with resident multilingual instructors. Apart from this one can also go for snorkeling, Canoeing, Beach Volley, Fishing, Excursion, Windsurfing, Catamaran Sailing and swimming.

Labriz Silhouette is an Indian Ocean resort nestles between a 5 km soft beach and a lush tropical forest with imposing mountain peaks. It is the latest addition to the luxury hotels of the Seychelles. Labriz is a Creole word derived from the French phrase “la brise” (“the breeze”). The resort offers spacious 93 villas and 17 pavilions which are hidden amongst the tropical greenery and all include modern amenities such as 32” LCD TVs, Wi-Fi and their own 7 x 3 m pool.

Labriz Silhouette combines the optimum in “fly and flop” relaxation including a first class spa and body treatments, fine dining and beautiful beaches with exciting activities. Resort’ Facilities: Swimming pool, scuba dive centre, tennis court, fitness center, helipad, Aquum Spa, gym, beauty salon, 4 restaurants, and bar.

Apart from the usual water sports, Labriz also offers the opportunity to be at one with nature. Adventurous trekking tours take guests through the tropical jungle to expeditions with resident naturalist and marine biologist. Points of Interest: excursions to Mah?, deep-sea fishing, snorkeling excursions, kayaks, pedal boat hire, the Silhouette Giant Tortoise Sanctuary. Stay 7 nights Low Season from £3050 per person & High Season from £3960 per person.

Each Orange Sea Pen (Scientific Name: Ptilosarcus gurneyi) is a colony of polyps  working together for the survival of the whole. The primary polyp loses its tentacles and becomes the stalk of the sea pen, with a bulb at its base. They can generally be found in temperate waters of northeastern Pacific.

The Giant Japanese spider crab (Scientific Name: Macrocheira kaempferi) is the largest arthropods known to man. Fully grown, it attains a leg span of about 4 m and a weight of about 20 kilograms. They generally have a dark orange body, with white spots on their legs and can live up to 100 years is considered to be a living fossil. The width of their body usually grows to about 37cm and they are covered with little nodules called tubercles. The Giant Japanese spider crab can generally be found in the Pacific Ocean around Japan. They are found in depths of 150m to 800m, but mainly these crabs go to depths of around 200m. If the female Japanese Spider Crabs need to lay their eggs, then they even go to shallow depths of 50m.

Known of the movie “Finding Nemo”, Clown Fish (Scientific Name: Amphiprion Ocellaris) are commonly found in the warm waters in the Pacific Ocean, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Clownfish belong to a group of small, brightly colored fish called damselfish. The largest reach a length of 18 cm, while the smallest barely reach 10 cm. They are not eaten by other fish because they are kept safe by the stinging tentacles of the Anemone.

This is not very popular, but Reunion Island is part of the European Union, being one of France’s fully incorporated overseas departments. It is one of the French Republic’s 26 regions with the same status as those on the European mainland. Because Reunion is in a time zone to the east of Europe, the first ever purchase with the EU’s new currency was made here in 2002 – a 1 euro bag of lichees in Saint-Denis market. Photo by: Gido Gerland

The tropical island is located in the Indian Ocean, 200 km to the south west of Mauritius. The British seized the Mascarene Islands every in the 19th century, but Reunion was latter returned to France. It was uninhabited when the first Europeans visited – Portuguese explorers in 1513 – but the Reunion of today is well populated and economically successful. It is 63 km long by 45 km wide. Photo by: xavierlelay

Reunion’s boasts with vulcanological fame is that – like Hawaii – it is located on a hotspot above the earth’s crust. Fournaise is a shield volcano that has erupted more than one hundred times since the 17th century and is still erupting, most recently in 2007. The higher Piton de Neige is an extinct volcano. The island has a great variety of landscapes – volcanic peaks and lava beds, heavily forested slopes, coastal lowlands, rocky shores and a few sandy beaches. Photo by: zanimo

Tourism is an important economic activity and a typically French range of accommodation may be found – hotels, pensions, gites and the occasional resort. Getting around isn’t hard – there is a good public bus service on paved roads, though traffic can jump up at peak times – and Reunion offers a really excellent and varied range of interesting visitors attractions. Photo by: stephjeu

When to go: The very rainy season (December to March) is best avoided. Population: 785,000. How to get there: By air, ideally (for coats reasons) from Paris or Mauritius. By boat from Mauritius. Photo by: miko974

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