Mahé

Back to Mahé, we visit the capital, Victoria, and go for a walk on the top of the cliffs until Anse Major. Bad timing, the temperature is hitting the ceiling during the afternoon, we really don't feel like coming back on the same track. Good news, it seems that we are not the first ones to face the problem, there is a taxi boat service to bring us back to the hotel. Nice surprise indeed, it was a great moment.

Last hike, climbing 750m above the sea level, under a heavy rain, in the middle of wild nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, passion fruits, guava and orange trees. In 5 hours, we will only cross 3 scientists who are counting the frogs or the snails, or whatever there is to be counted up there. 

 

 

For the ones who didn't feel like walking this morning, and decided to use the bus and join us at the Anse Launay (hello Bouvron!) beach, it will also take close to 5 hours, because bus trips take ages there, and because there is a bus only every 2 hours.

On Sunday, everyone is exhausted by the week, we decide to hang around the hotel, back and forth the beach, and pack the luggage for the trip back to Paris. 

 
You could think that this was the end of our adventures... Not even close.

Impossible to get our boarding pass from Dubai to Paris, because of "a problem with the computer". How can anyone pretend that there are problems with the computers? Anybody knows that this never happens... ;)
The plane takes off upon schedule, no problem with the connection in Dubai, everything's fine until Paris, with the A380 once more. All of us are looking forward to getting home, and spending a looooong night in our beds.
But guess what... The luggage is not there! Thank God we all took our winter jackets and apartment keys with us, so we are heading the bus or train to get home a lot lighter than expected, and Emirates will have the great pleasure to deliver our luggage on the following day.

You wouldn't expect Seychelles to be so eventful, but the more I watch the pictures, and the more I enjoy those holidays :))))

La Digue

Time to move on to La Digue, we get up at 5:30am... and watch the rain falling during hours in the bus then in the boat then in the guest house in which we settle down.
At 10am the weather seems to be getting slightly better, we jump on our bikes and start riding around the island. The rain and the wind lowered a bit the temperature, it feels a lot nicer.

The next activity will be sea kayaking, which will turn out a bit more troublesome than expected: I got crushed by my kayak while landing on the beach where we had a break, two other kayaks turned upside down and drowned while crossing the coral reef. But everyone finishes the day alive and reasonably safe and sound (the salted water helped curing all the scratches we got during the day...).