Things to see and do Mahé

This waterfall is quietly located on Port April heights. The 1 700 m road, from the church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, part of the hillside assault, a minute walk (or barely five by car) is enough to climb up to this beautiful waterfall of the Ilette.

On Independence Avenue, a marine cow (a dudong) and a sculpted crocodile report the entry: welcome to the Museum of Natural History, where you will be reminded that the marshes of the archipelago were once infested with salt water. In 1775, a crocodile killed in La Digue (which has its Anse Cayman) measured four metres long and three circumference around the abdomen! This small, discret museum evokes seychellois flora and fauna, naturalized tortues turtles (more than two metres!) and a giant preserved coral. Above all, we admire a huge cocofesse of 18 kg and a very unusual one, as trilobé. Birds are not forgotten, a device for listening on simple pressure to the songs of seven rare zwazo in the archipelago: zirondel and tok tok, zwazo bannann and timerl dezil, black widow, singer singer and owl. The first floor is devoted to the British artist Marianne North (1830-1890), who was the first to paint this paradise archipelago, some reproductions attesting to his talent. At the same level, there is a children's corner where they can paint and draw, pass the sand to the sieve or play with moulding paste to shape a reken (shark) or a kourpa (snail), a krab (crab) or a lezar (lizard). The visit is therefore required if one stays in Mahé with its repudiation. You can also consult or view books and videos on subjects as seychelles as Aldabra or Mer. Exhibitions are also available (reptiles, carnivorous plants, etc.).

Michaël Adams did school. Twenty-five years after being his pupil, Donald Adelaide is part of these four or five Seychelles painters who live in their art. In its box of blue sheet, on the heights of Baie Lazare, this painter uses a technique that can be named under dividing. It is a juxtaposition of stains, strokes, curves, squares and circles. Having a more naive vision and perhaps more spontaneous technique than his master, his work of a colorful freshness is entirely devoted to what he sees around him: trees, flowers, houses, beaches… Within some realistic landscapes, completely abstract compositions run counter to figuration.