Anse Lazio voted the best beach in Seychelles by TripAdvisor users

One of the most romantic settings in the Seychelles, the beach of Anse Lazio on the second largest island of Praslin has been ranked by TripAdvisor users as the best beach in the entire archipelago. Cradled by a large bay with two mountain peaks on each side, adorned by white powder-fine sand and caressed by calm turquoise water, the half-kilometre long beach of Anse Lazio located on the northwest coast of the second most populated island of Seychelles, Praslin, is considered as a ‘must’ on the list of to-do’s for visitors to the Indian Ocean archipelago. The beach has in the past received similar recognition from travel website Lonely Planet and numerous other travel websites and magazines.

The worldly-wise tourist added that Anse Lazio is one of the rare sites where snorkellers can regularly find sea turtles feeding in the shallow calmness of the bay. By the middle of April to August, Anse Lazio is also a beautiful sight for the romantics with a spectacular sunset over neighbouring islands such as Aride and Ile aux Four.

The perfection and elegance of Anse Lazio is further enhanced by its rich tapestry of local folk tales surrounding swashbuckling, treasure-hiding pirates and the agricultural development of the island’s earliest settlers. Chiselled in several granite boulders are what could be telltale signs of the pirates that are reported to have wandered the Indian Ocean Island hundreds of years earlier, including an unmistakable arrow pointing to the mountain of Cherimont, while some other mysterious carvings point towards the rugged and almost bare mountain of La Pointe Chevalier.

-(Seychelles News Agency) -