The Seychelles - Africa with South Sea Ambience

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The 115 islands and islets of the Seychelles offer a breathtaking variety of plants, rare animals and fantastically beautiful palm beaches. Only on the Seychelles grows the legendary palm nut Coco de
Mer with fruits weighing up to 20 kilograms and giant land tortoises nibble mangrove fruits here in the wild. The archipelago has only been populated since the end of the 18th century. Today, a colorful mixture of peoples in the dwarf state shows how peacefully different cultures can live together.
Three times a week, the MV "Espoir" steams from the main island of Mahé to Praslin and back. A ship for everyone and everything. Used cars, toilet paper, horses, bicycles, furniture, the "Espoir" loads goods of all kinds. And the "girl for everything" in this lively transport business is actually a young woman: Hillary Germain. Her boss steers the barge from island to island, but Hillary keeps an overview and has customers and cash register under control.
On the island of La Digue, Sony Jaques enjoys a special drink with his friends: calou. A kind of wine that drips directly from scratched palm blossoms in the oppressive heat. Sony just has to catch it. With a system of linen, ribbons and cut-open plastic bottles, he succeeds impeccably. And within a few hours, while the bottles are still dangling in the trees, the sweet palm blossom juice is transformed into a sparkling, intoxicating drink.
The fruits of the coconut palm, on the other hand, the coconuts, are now almost a problem on the islands: there are just so many of them. Where to put them? The best place is Hubert Roumien's Virgin Coconut Oil laboratory, hidden in the jungle of Mahé. Hubert produces oil, milk, and pastes. Right now, he's tinkering with his latest product: coconut perfume.
A famous relative of the normal coconut grows only in the Seychelles: the Coco de Mer. The largest nut variety in the world grows to weigh more than 20 kilograms. Since it is considered an aphrodisiac in Asia, it is threatened by poaching and illegal trade. In the Vallée de Mai nature park, ranger Marc Jean-Baptiste and his colleagues have developed an ingenious system to protect the "sea coconut". Together with his helpers, he hides the germinating nuts in the undergrowth of the jungle for the trees to grow from. And then it's time to go on patrol.
Bettina L'Esperance and Nana Stravens also want to preserve the nature of their homeland. And so they stand in a mangrove swamp in rubber boots, equipped with planting wood and a large bag of seedlings, and replant. The islanders have recognized that the huge mangrove areas are important for the continued existence of their island world.
On Praslin, stinking seaweed is quite a nuisance, because it is washed up in abundance on the dream beaches. Benjamin Port Louis has a solution for this: he collects the stuff on a grand scale and transports it by boat to his small manufactory. There he extracts a liquid fertilizer from the seaweed. At Seaweed Seychelles, straw becomes gold!
The chain that dangles around the neck of Seychelles rapper Ras Ricky Sultan is also made of gold. Ras Ricky manages the balancing act between two worlds. During the day he skippers wealthy guests on luxury yachts through the islands, at night he sings his sega, reggae and revolting songs in the clubs of the locals. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)