Seychelles, Mahé, Sentier Vacoa Trail

After lazing around on the beach it was time for another expedition in the ‚island jungle‘. So I challenged the Sentier Vacoa Trail (Grand Anse) through the Riverine Forests, dominated once by Vacoa plants. On the way I saw some nice Seychelles Palm spiders (Argiopidae spider?), but the flora was also very interesting, e.g. the Pandanus hornei weiterlesen…

Seychelles, Mahé, Mangroves

Close-by the Hotel Meridien Barbarons there is a boardwalk through the mangroves. I didn’t know, but they say that mangroves harbour biodiversity, providing resources and act as a fish nursery and breeding ground. Beside some fishes like Tilapia and Mullets I discovered some other small creature like dungeness crabs (red crab) and mudskipper (mudhopper). Later weiterlesen…

Seychelles, Mahé, Meridien Barbarons

My first trip to the Seychelles and the first island Mahé on my island hopping expedition in this not just another place, but another world. My housing was in the Hotel Le Méridien Barbarons situated on the west coast of Mahé and ’set amidst tropical gardens, sparkling indigo lagoons, and pure white sands. Seychelles, a magical archipelago of weiterlesen…

Holiday – Majorca (14th day) – Internet Cafés

Internet Café, Bar Café Es Pont, Ciber-Phone and a tasty ice cream.  If you don’t have an internet connection in your hotel somewhere in the Tramuntana mountains and you are desperate for the web, you get go to one of the 3 internet Cafés in Sollér: Internet Café (de Sa Lluna) 15 minutes = 0.65 weiterlesen…

Holiday – Majorca (12th day) – Sunbathing

Cap de Formentor, Cap de Catalunya and me on the Platja de Muro. After visiting the southern and western side of the island, it was time to see some northern and eastern countryside. So today we aimed for the light house at the Cap de Formentor. From Fornalutx it was a quite long car drive weiterlesen…

Holiday – Majorca (11th day) – Relaxing

Sunloungers covered with towels, a well rested tourist and a native resident in the neighborhood. Today I relaxed, relaxed and later on relaxed. But the day started with a surprise. On the way for breakfast I didn’t believe my eyes as I looked over to the pool; almost half of the sunloungers were covered with weiterlesen…

Holiday – Majorca (10th day) – Palma

Palma Cathedral far and close, Bellver Castle and panorama over Palma. And don’t forget the main city, if you visit Majorca. Palma de Mallorca has an awesome Roman Catholic Cathedral, an Old Town and a long marina. I also visit the Bellver Castle on a hill to the north of the city, where you have a weiterlesen…