Travel guide: Desroches, Seychelles
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Local facts
Travel essentials for Desroches, Seychelles — what to expect on the ground. Desroches sits in Seychelles (Africa), in a tropical climate band — tropical southern-hemisphere zone with a wet season and a dry season. Nearest airport: DES serves the area. Local timezone is Indian/Mahe, which matters for arrivals and check-ins. It sits at -5.68°, 53.68° — useful for weather, daylight, and route planning. Use the live tools below to plan around these facts.
- RegionSeychelles, Africa
- Climate bandtropical southern-hemisphere zone with a wet season and a dry season
- Nearest airportDES
- TimezoneIndian/Mahe
- Coordinates-5.68, 53.68
- Located in the Southern Hemisphere
Desroches is a small, remote coral island in the Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean, one of the Outer Islands, lying around 230 kilometres southwest of the main island of Mahe. Unlike the mountainous granite islands at the heart of the Seychelles, Desroches is a low, flat coral island, part of the Amirantes group, ringed by long white-sand beaches, coconut palms and a shallow lagoon, with a coral reef falling away into the deep just offshore. It is one of the most exclusive and unspoilt islands in the country, known above all for its superb diving and its sense of complete escape, on the edge of the great Desroches drop-off. Desroches is reached by air, on short flights of under an hour from Mahe, into its airstrip. The climate is warm and tropical all year, cooled by the sea breeze, with a hotter, wetter season and a slightly cooler, breezier one.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Desroches?
Desroches is a small coral island in the Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean, one of the Outer Islands, lying about 230 kilometres southwest of the main island of Mahe. It belongs to the Amirantes group, and is a low, flat coral island quite different from the granite islands at the heart of the Seychelles.
How do you get to Desroches?
Desroches is reached by air, on short flights of under an hour from the main Seychelles island of Mahe, into the airstrip on the island. As one of the remote Outer Islands, it has no ferry service from the main islands, so almost all visitors arrive by these small scheduled or charter flights.
What is Desroches known for?
Desroches is known as one of the most exclusive and unspoilt islands in the Seychelles, a remote coral island of white-sand beaches, palms and clear lagoon. It is famous above all for its superb diving, on the edge of the dramatic Desroches drop-off, and for its deep sense of peace and escape.
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