Maciej Kuszpa an der FernUni Hagen
Maciej's Einblicke in Forschung, Lehre, Verwaltung und Campusleben an der FernUniversität in Hagen
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This time I walked to the L’Union Estate – a park with a big enclosure with giant tortoises and very old cemetery. The La Digue Cemetery was the private burial place for the Mellon family who was among the first settlers on La Digue during the early 1800’s. Mrs. Louise Mellon (née Desjardins) was the first weiterlesen…
Today I firstly had a walking tour around the half island; Anse La Réunion, Anse Sévère, Anse Patates, Anse Gaulettes, Anse Grosse Roche and Anse Banane. The highlight was to meet a wild giant tortoise on the way. Later on I go for a sailing tour around La Digue – sailing into the sunset 🙂
The next island to discover on the Seychelles was La Digue. With a fast catamaran ferry called ‚coco de mer‘ I first made a one hour journey from Mahé Jetty to Praslin Jetty. And then I go with a smaller ferry to the La Digue Jetty, not far away from the hotel La Digue Island Lodge. weiterlesen…
Today I made a round trip in the capital city Victoria. Starting from the bus station in the Palm Street I walked to the Cathédrale de Immaculée Conception and then to the Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke Market. Close-by there is also a Hindu Temple, but unfortunately it was more a building site. On the way to weiterlesen…
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…
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…
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…
Naturhistorisches Museum, Elisabeth of Bavaria monument, St. Charles’s Church and Hofburg Imperial Palace. I found some free time during the EuroWebtainment today, so I went for a quick city trip in Vienna. Among other things I saw Vienna State Opera, Burggarten, Mozart monument, Maria-Theresien-Platz, Naturhistorisches Museum, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Heldenplatz, Hofburg Imperial Palace, Volksgarten, Theseus temple, weiterlesen…