This Yacht & Lodge Safari is designed to provide a comprehensive two week exploration of the Seychelles, with half your time spent skippered sailing and the other half spent exploring and relaxing on Mahe, Praslin and Bird Island.

One of the great benefits of chartering with a skipper is that you always have local knowledge on hand to help you pick out the most interesting coastal and on land locations.  A skipper can also help you to arrange meals and activities on land and take away some of your natural concerns about local conditions and navigation.

Eight days of skippered sailing opens up a great range of opportunities for exploring the Seychelles.  Within close range of your starting point, Praslin and La Digue and their nearby satellite islands which include Curieuse, Marianne and Cousin, you can explore some stunning island cruising.  These lush islands offer a myriad of bays typified by golden sand beaches and dramatic granite boulders interspersed with coconut palms and lush vegetation.

Stretching further afield, you can also easily reach Seychelles largest island of Mahe to enjoy its dramatic coastline of mountains and coastal rainforest.  You can even reach further west to North Island and Silhouette whose steep mountains are almost entirely covered in forest.  Seychelles is full of places where you are likely to be the only yacht to enjoy its dramatic coastlines and secluded bays.

You can predetermine where you might most like to sail in the Seychelles by linking through to our sample itineraries.  You can also call us to discuss.  Your skipper will be able to adjust your day by day itinerary to suit your interests and accommodate prevailing wind and sea conditions.

Before you sail, you will have a few days to enjoy the Seychelles largest island of Mahe.  This is where you will fly into so it is an ideal location either to relax at the start of your yacht and lodge safari, or hire a car, dive, snorkel or go trekking to explore is coastlines and forest covered mountains.

Praslin is the Seychelles second largest island and the next location where we propose a land based stay.  This island is the site of one of the natural highlights of the Seychelles: the Vallée de Mai UNESCO World Heritage Site.  Here you will enjoy a privately guided exploration of this unique palm forest which is the native home of the world’s largest nut: the Coco de Mer.

Your skippered yacht charter starts and ends in Praslin after which we take you back to Mahe and then fly you to the Seychelles northernmost island of Bird Island.  As the name suggests, the birdlife here is a spectacle to behold with the ground and skies often filled with literally millions of seabirds.  The beaches here are also breathtaking with a wonderful sense of their setting in a huge Indian Ocean wilderness.

Yacht & Lodge Safari incorporating the Amirantes

Starting and ending in the inner islands, you can also take a skippered sailing yacht to the low lying coral islands of the Amirantes.  These islands are less often sailed and the rewards are a collection of secluded atolls, beaches and reefs which require local knowledge and expertise to navigate safely.  There is some excellent snorkelling and fishing here, and if you have a interest in scuba diving then please click here to link to our dedicated Private Sail & Dive Yacht Safaris to the Amirantes.

For a detailed recommended itinerary please click here.

For a sample 8 day Inner Islands sailing itinerary please click here.

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