La Digue
A granite island small enough to cross by bicycle, with the most photographed beach in the Indian Ocean on one coast and a beach you should not swim at on the other.
- SEZ
- Airport
- December – April
- Best months
La Digue is the third-largest inhabited island in Seychelles and it is small. There is no airport and barely any traffic; the island is crossed by bicycle, which is not a charming detail but how you get from one of these beaches to the other.
Which coast a beach is on decides when it is safe. The FCDO puts it plainly for Seychelles as a whole: the west coast is unsafe during the north-west monsoon, around December to March, and the east coast is unsafe during the south-east winds, around May to September. It also warns that beaches do not always carry safety information and that you should not assume they are safe.
The two beaches here sit on opposite coasts, so they are out of phase with each other by half a year. Anse Source d'Argent faces west into the lagoon behind L'Union Estate; Grand Anse faces the open ocean on the other side, and is the one this directory records as not advised for swimming at all.
SourcesOpenStreetMapFCDO travel advice — Seychelles, safety and security
Beaches
- Anse Source d'Argent
White · Calm · Busy
- Grand Anse
White · Not advised · Quiet