Wild
Seychelles

Arrive at Seychelles International Airport and meet your private representative for the transfer through Mahé’s northern districts to AQUA Boutique Hotel in Glacis.

The first day is deliberately unhurried — the infinity pool, the ocean view, and time to decompress before the adventures start. A private sunset experience closes the evening.

A guided hike on the Copolia Trail, the most rewarding short walk on Mahé and firmly inside Morne Seychellois National Park. It is 1.2 kilometres with 180 metres of climb, an hour and a half to two hours return, and rated moderate — manageable for most reasonably active people.

The path climbs through dense upland jungle thick with endemic plants, including the distinctive pitcher plants that grow along it, before emerging onto a bare granite summit ledge above the treeline. From there the view runs over Victoria, the east coast and the whole of Sainte Anne Marine Park. Sturdy closed shoes are essential; the rock is slick after rain, and there is no shade at the top.

The afternoon returns to AQUA for a swim or a treatment at the AQUA Ocean Spa.

A guided morning in Victoria: the market, the 1903 Clock Tower, the Hindu temple, and the National Botanical Garden with its Aldabra giant tortoise enclosure.

The afternoon climbs to Mission Lodge at Venn’s Town, inside the Morne Seychellois corridor, where the ruins of a 19th-century missionary school built for the children of liberated slaves sit on a forested ridge with the west coast spread out below.

Dinner at Marie Antoinette, a colonial mansion serving Seychellois Creole food since 1972 — parrotfish, tuna steak, chicken curry, fish stew, and ladob to finish.

A full-day private boat in Sainte Anne Marine National Park, off Mahé’s northeast coast — six islands set in remarkably clear turquoise water, and one of the most reliable snorkelling destinations in the country, with coral formations and tropical fish in the shallows.

The day includes Moyenne Island, under half a kilometre long and improbably full: free-roaming giant land tortoises, the remains of early settlers’ houses, a small thatched chapel and a pair of pirate graves, all inside a tropical thicket you can walk across in twenty minutes.

Port Launay Marine National Park in the morning, on Mahé’s northwestern coast: a sheltered reef in calm, shallow, turquoise water, with both soft and hard corals and healthy populations of tropical fish including parrotfish. It is genuinely suitable for snorkellers with no prior experience, and the calmest conditions run October to April. The bay is framed by forested hills, fine sand, granite outcrops and takamaka trees. Bring your own gear and reef-safe sunscreen; facilities are limited and drinking water comes with you.

The afternoon transfers to Beau Vallon, one of the recognised paragliding areas in the Seychelles, where licensed operators fly over the bay. Sunset cocktails on the beach close the day.

A private transfer from Mahé to Félicité — by boat or helicopter, depending on preference and conditions.

Check in to Six Senses Zil Pasyon, which occupies less than a third of the island and leaves the rest as protected landscape. Settle into your villa and its private pool. The resort’s Experiences Team can arrange a hike to Félicité’s highest viewpoint, which is the fastest way to understand the geography of the inner islands.

A private boat to La Digue, where bicycles are the main mode of transport and cars barely feature. The morning route runs Anse Patates → Anse Source d’Argent, inside L’Union Estate → the plantation house, coconut mill and vanilla plantation → Grand Anse, dramatic and far less crowded.

From Grand Anse, the coastal trail to Anse Cocos: forest, granite and empty beach, roughly 25 to 40 minutes each way over uneven ground. Creole lunch on the island afterwards.

The afternoon is crystal kayaking along La Digue’s coastline, with the transparent hulls doing the work of a mask. Private boat back to Félicité.

A private diving excursion among the inner-island reefs, for certified divers. The granitic islands around Mahé and out to La Digue hold 47 documented dive sites, running from shallow coral gardens to dramatic granite pinnacles rising from 30 metres.

Willie’s Rock, off Mahé’s eastern flank, is the beginner-friendly one — terraced granite ledges and gentle slopes where green turtles are close to guaranteed, alongside schools of yellow snapper and fusilier. Pirate’s Cove, off the northwest coast, is a maze of swim-throughs between enormous boulders at 18 to 25 metres. North Sister Bank is an exposed pinnacle where current draws in whale sharks around the northwest monsoon transition.

Expect hawksbill turtles, eagle rays, grey reef sharks and reef fish throughout, over granite walls carrying leather corals and sea fans. Best conditions run April to June and September to October, with water at 28–29°C and visibility to 25–30 metres.

A private yacht expedition in search of dolphins and, where the season and the sea allow, larger marine life. Spinner and bottlenose dolphins are year-round residents. Humpback whales pass between July and October on their breeding migration. Whale sharks are seen most often around Mahé, with a peak in July and August.

Sightings vary year to year with natural migratory cycles and nobody can promise them — but the expedition is worth the day regardless of what surfaces.

A final sunset dinner over the Indian Ocean closes the journey.

Breakfast at leisure, then a private transfer by boat or helicopter from Félicité towards the airport for your onward flight.