Frangipani hits you before the jet bridge ends. That’s your introduction to Mahé. Emirates and Ethiopian Airlines both connect from Mumbai and Delhi in a single hop. Alp Travel Co. handles every transfer so you move, not manage.
Three nights on Mahé start at Four Seasons Resort Seychelles. Your ocean-view villa opens straight onto granite boulders and sea. The pace drops immediately. A private guide takes you south the next morning — Anse Intendance, Anse Soleil, beaches the crowds rarely reach. Back inland, a Creole cooking class with Chef Jérôme at a local family kitchen puts cinnamon, turmeric, and smoked fish in your hands. You cook. You eat what you made. The afternoon belongs to Sainte Anne Marine Park. You snorkel for two hours over reef, turtle grass, and hawksbill turtles.
Day four: the Cat Cocos ferry, upper-deck class, one hour across open water to Praslin. Constance Lémuria meets you at Baie St. Anne. The resort’s beach butler stocks your villa before you arrive — that’s the perk worth noting.
Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve fills your first Praslin morning. A park naturalist walks you through the coco de mer palms and points out the black parrot, found nowhere else on earth. Anse Lazio is next. The resort packs a cold lunch; you eat on the sand. No agenda. That afternoon counts.
Curieuse Island is a full day by boat. You walk a mangrove trail, sit among giant Aldabra tortoises at the ranger station, and snorkel a coral garden on the north side that most visitors skip entirely. The guide knows exactly where to anchor.
Mahé again for your final night, then international departures from Seychelles International Airport. Alp Travel Co. times every transfer so nothing is rushed and nothing is left to chance.
