Showing posts with label Seychelles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seychelles. Show all posts

Monday, 1 February 2016

New guide book in English for Reunion

Planning a trip to Reunion? Looking for the perfect travel companion? Be inspired by the fully-updated 2nd edition of the Insight Guide to Mauritius, Reunion & Seychelles: a full-colour and comprehensive guide in English for real visitors and armchair travellers alike. It has excellent maps, beautiful colour photos breaking up the text, as well as informative and easy-to-read articles and listings. This new edition is thoroughly up-to-date, with its trademark ‘Insight’ articles and features on local history, culture and touristy stuff. To write their books Insight Guides use local experts who provide insider know-how and share their love and knowledge of the destination.



Inside Insight Guide Mauritius, Réunion & Seychelles:
· A fully-overhauled edition by three expert local authors (that's me for the Reunion section ).
· Inspirational: stunning, specially-commissioned photography brings these idyllic destinations and their people, sights and excursions to life. 
· Highlights of top attractions, including Piton de la Fournaise, one of the planet's most active volcanoes; and the Cirques, Reunion’s three huge caldera-like valleys.
· Descriptive region-by-region accounts cover the destinations in depth.
· Detailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around with ease, pinpointing the key attractions featured in every chapter.
· Travel tips give you all the essential information for planning a memorable trip, including an independent selection of the best places to eat and the best activities on offer, and useful advice on everything from climate to money.
· Rich heritage: explore the islands’ vibrant history and culture and understand their modern-day life, people and politics.
· Editor’s Choice: whether it be sporting activities, best beaches, culture and heritage, wildlife watching, or parks and gardens, there’s an at-a-glance guide to highlights of the most special places to visit.
· A free app and e-book. The Walking Eye app features an up-to-date A to Z of travel tips, information on events, activities, and destination highlights as well as hotel, restaurant and bar listings.

Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. They produce around 400 full-colour print guidebooks and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.


The Insight Guide to Mauritius, Reunion & Seychelles is published today in the USA & Canada, and was published on January 15th 2016 in the UK.


This article was originally published on the Go To Reunion blog.

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Presentation of SW Indian Ocean

If you don't know much about the South West Indian Ocean, its islands (Reunion, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and the Comoros) and its inhabitants, here's a good place to start :



Here's an article about the lesser known island of Rodrigues, a dependency of Mauritius, and the smallest inhabited island of the Mascarene Archipelago.