Top Beaches to Visit in Seychelles

Alphonse Island

If you want to live out that stranded-on-a-deserted island fantasy, you’ve come to the right place. Part of the Alphonse Group, Alphonse is a coral islet that lies about 400km south of Mahé. This is a great private island resort with a heavy focus on sportfishing and, increasingly, diving and snorkelling. Alphonse offers the finest saltwater fly-fishing on the planet as well as sensational diving and snorkelling a mere 10-minute boat ride away. And there’s only one boat: yours. No wonder it’s gaining in popularity.

Anse Cocos

If you’re suffering from visions of tropical paradise, here is your medicine. On the east coast of La Digue, Anse Cocos is the sort of place you’ll never want to leave. The beach here is near perfect, a stereotype come to life with blindingly white sand, casuarina trees and palms arching gracefully to shade beachgoers, shapely boulders forming clandestine coves at either end and startlingly blue waters. Ideal for hours spent lazing on the beach, far from the crowds.

Curieuse Island

You’ll need to take a boat tour from Praslin or La Digue to get to this granite island, about 1.5km off Praslin’s northern coast. Curieuse is known for its giant Aldabra tortoises, which you can easily approach (and take a picture of). It’s also a wonderful place for a barbecued lunch. After your picnic, take a dip in the glassy waters off Baie Laraie, which are excellent for snorkelling and swimming, or head to Anse José, another idyllic beach framed by massive granite boulders, equally good for sunning and swimming.

Denis

Welcome to paradise. It may be a much-abused cliché but the coral island of Denis comes as close to living up to this claim as anywhere on the planet. This is a place where warm tropical waters lap quietly on a beach of white sand, while the lagoon offshore dazzles in magical shades of blue. The island’s luxury lodge combines romance with seclusion to perfectly capture the idyll of barefoot luxury (no TV, no mobile phones), and you’ll share the island with giant tortoises and gorgeous bird species.

Anse Volbert

Although less famous than other Praslin beaches, stellar Anse Volbert does offer plenty of benefits: easy access, calm (and turquoise) waters and white sand. Fringing a lovely bay studded with a strand of palms, this is a stunning, 4km-long beach to sun yourself on, and it never feels crowded. For active types, a gaggle of watersports are available, including kayaking and paddleboarding. For snorkelling, Chauve Souris, a tiny clump of tree-covered rocks just 400m offshore, offers optimal conditions. There are some great dining options nearby.

Silhouette

Grand, brooding, powerful and charismatic. That pretty much sums up Silhouette. The third largest island in the archipelago, it juts up dramatically from the cobalt-blue ocean, only 20 kilometres north of Mahé. Its highest point, Mt Dauban, reaches up 780m. With steep forested mountain peaks rising from the ocean above achingly.

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