Maciej Kuszpa an der FernUni Hagen
Maciej's Einblicke in Forschung, Lehre, Verwaltung und Campusleben an der FernUniversität in Hagen
The next island to discover on the Seychelles was La Digue. With a fast catamaran ferry called ‚coco de mer‘ I first made a one hour journey from Mahé Jetty to Praslin Jetty. And then I go with a smaller ferry to the La Digue Jetty, not far away from the hotel La Digue Island Lodge. weiterlesen…
Today I made a round trip in the capital city Victoria. Starting from the bus station in the Palm Street I walked to the Cathédrale de Immaculée Conception and then to the Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke Market. Close-by there is also a Hindu Temple, but unfortunately it was more a building site. On the way to weiterlesen…
After lazing around on the beach it was time for another expedition in the ‚island jungle‘. So I challenged the Sentier Vacoa Trail (Grand Anse) through the Riverine Forests, dominated once by Vacoa plants. On the way I saw some nice Seychelles Palm spiders (Argiopidae spider?), but the flora was also very interesting, e.g. the Pandanus hornei weiterlesen…
Close-by the Hotel Meridien Barbarons there is a boardwalk through the mangroves. I didn’t know, but they say that mangroves harbour biodiversity, providing resources and act as a fish nursery and breeding ground. Beside some fishes like Tilapia and Mullets I discovered some other small creature like dungeness crabs (red crab) and mudskipper (mudhopper). Later weiterlesen…
My first trip to the Seychelles and the first island Mahé on my island hopping expedition in this not just another place, but another world. My housing was in the Hotel Le Méridien Barbarons situated on the west coast of Mahé and ’set amidst tropical gardens, sparkling indigo lagoons, and pure white sands. Seychelles, a magical archipelago of weiterlesen…