Seychelles Islands
July 12-17, 2009
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Onto Nairobi
After climbing on Mt Kenya, we
looked forward to the warm tropics for a week - but it almost didn't
happen. Kenya Airways only flies to the Seychelles 3 times a week
at the time of writing: Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. We had booked
our stay from Tuesday through Sunday, planning to return from our
climbing trip on Sunday night and spend a day in Nairobi to clean up
before flying out. It turned out that we came down from the
mountains a day early (Saturday night), and went to check email -
much to our surprise, the Tuesday flight was cancelled due to lack
of passengers! They had automatically rebooked us for Thursday,
which only left us 2 days there - not good enough. Suddenly it
dawned on us that they fly there on Sunday too - and a quick phone
call later we were booked on it! We were lucky to have gotten back
a day early...
The Seychelles were amazing. For some reason there weren't many
tourists (we were the only ones staying at our hotel!), which was
nice. We rented a car one day and drove around the island, which
was awesome and allowed us to go snorkelling on a small beach far
away from the touristy area. We also went diving several of the
days and I finished my Open
Water Diver certification. Another day was spent on a
huge sail boat
with very interesting history (built in Holland in 1920, and the owner
sank it during World War II as he didn't want it used in the war).
Seven days passed by very quickly and next thing you know, it was
time to go back to Nairobi and
fly home from there!
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Geko in da house! |
Welcome to Bokeh City |
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Funky flower in our yard |
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Why is it cloudy!? |
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I always thought the Seychelles would be crowded (taken at the most popular beach!) |
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Fishing net |
Bringing in the catch of the day |
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Stingray |
The kids loved watching the fish in the net |
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Our rental car for the day (right hand drive) |
Having a blast driving on the "wrong" side of the road |
Half the island (note the scale) |
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Wide autobahn :) |
Playing paparazzo |
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Another crowded beach that had amazing snorkelling at the end of it |
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Playing with the angles to get the previous shot |
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View from the Sunset Hotel |
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