La Digue Island
The La Digue Island is 50 km from the main Mahé Island. The island only takes up the area of 10 km2. That is why people move there on foot or in ox carts. There are only 2,100 people living in La Digue and the main source of their income is tourism. La Digue is often called the Pink Island. This name was given to it because of the pink rocks one can find there.
Thanks to the extraordinary beauty of its untouched nature, the La Digue Island is the most photographed of all the Seychelles islands.
There is one of the seven most beautiful beaches of the world called ANSE SOURCE D´ARGENT on this island. The south-west part of La Digue is flat and suitable for agricultural production. The forests of this part of the island are the home to the "Taka-Maka" Tree, the wood of which is suitable for furniture making, the Breadfruit Tree, the Indian Almond Tree, the climbing Vanilla Plant and the Coconut Palm Tree. The eastern part of the island is mountainous. The name of the mountain range that can be found there is the Eagle Nest. On the La Digue Island, traditional methods of coconut and vanilla processing are still used. In the L´Union Estate settlement one can find not only a factory, where traditional methods of coconut and vanilla processing are used but also the president's villa used for political purposes, where gigantic turtles are kept in a fenced yard.
Each Seychelles visitors should visit the La Digue Island and experience a friendly atmosphere of this "intimate place" and its "lethargic" kind of life and beautiful beaches.
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