Mango House Seychelles, LXR Hotels & Resorts

Michael Adams Art Gallery is situated at his residence at Anse aux Poules Bleues and is filled with colourful silk-screens, watercolour paintings, postcards, line blocks and calendars.

The Mission Lodge is perhaps the most famous vantage point in all of Seychelles, offering spectacular sea and mountain views looking southward across Mahé, from the shaded and peaceful confines of a gazebo where Queen Elizabeth II once sat for tea.

The Victoria Clocktower, or Lorloz as it is better known in Creole, is the most prominent feature of Seychelles’ small capital, and has acted as a focal point for nearly 100 years. While all around massive transformation has taken place in the town centre, with modern buildings of concrete and glass springing up, the Clocktower has remained virtually unchanged. The Lorloz is an elegant replica of the clock that was first erected in London in 1897 at the junction of Victoria Street and Vauxhall Bridge Road, near Victoria Station. Seychelles' governor Sir Ernest Sweet-Escott, who had admired it during a visit to London, ordered a similar clock for Seychelles as a memorial to Queen Victoria, who died in 1901 after a reign stretching over 63 years. Made by Messrs Gillet and Johnson of Croydon, and paid for partly by public subscription, the clock was eventually erected in Victoria in 1903, the same year that Seychelles celebrated its new status as a Crown colony, administered directly by a governor appointed by London instead of from Mauritius. Originally, the clock was expected to chime, but sadly failed to do so. Today, however, the Victoria clock regularly strikes the hour, having had its mechanism completely replaced in 1999 by a modern, quartz masterclock. The work was carried out by the original manufacturer, Gillett and Johnson, with the cost again being met in Seychelles partly by public donation. The Clocktower is one of Seychelles' national monuments.

Open from 08h00 to 17h00 daily Dating back more than a century, these 2-hectare botanical gardens lie on the outskirts of capital Victoria. Children make a beeline for the giant tortoises from Aldabra Island, some of which are more than 150 years old. Fruit bat colonies feed and roost in the swaying palms and spice trees while brightly colored and delicate orchids, including rare native Seychelles' varieties, are displayed in an orchid house.