Praslin is the second largest inhabited island, and is seven miles by roughly two and a half. The striking coral reefs are mere striplings, perhaps six to eight thousand years old. But they are teeming with life ; a landscape painted in the myriad colours of living coral, jewel like shells, and an amazing nine hundred species of fish. 

It is also home to one of Seychelles' two World Heritage Sites - the Vallee de Mai - a primeval rainforest containing the famous Coco de Mer palms, which have the largest, heaviest and most suggestively shaped nuts in the world. Vanilla orchids, a variety of lizards and some of earth's rarest birds also reside there. Praslin, though small, more than warrants exploration. Thanks to its geography, it is also the ideal place from which to visit many of the other islands.

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