Victoria's Botanical Gardens & Mission Lodge

Exult in Victoria’s enthralling landmarks during this enjoyable tour of the city, botanical gardens and Mission Lodge. Relax on a lovely drive through Victoria, one the world’s smallest capital cities yet possessed of a great deal of history and charm. You’ll pass captivating sites such as the National Library, the Creole-style old courthouse, the National Museum and numerous other colonial-era buildings. Discover a silver clock tower erected in 1903 to celebrate the Seychelles becoming an English colony and find it’s a replica of the Vauxhall Clock Tower, located outside London’s Victoria Station. You’ll appreciate Victoria’s wooden houses, which feature colorful corrugated tin roofs and wrought-iron balconies.

Visit the Seychelles National Botanical Gardens and spot giant Aldabra land tortoises, fruit bats and more than 200 species of indigenous flora, including elephant apple trees, octopus trees and double coconut palms, or coco de mer. Enjoy a photo stop at an ideally placed lookout offering wonderful panoramic vistas of Victoria, its port and yacht basin. Conclude your excursion at Mission Lodge, the ruins of a school for children of freed slaves, where you’ll walk among the 100-year-old sandragon trees and revel in splendid views of Mahé’s marvelous coast.