Food, Lodging & Travel
Four volunteers will live in a shared-accommodation eco-tourist house and you will have opportunities to mix with conservation staff after hours, if you wish. The house consists of 2 bedrooms, 1 lounge and 1 bathroom. The house has air-conditioning in the shared lounge and standing fans in each room. There are mosquito nets provided in the bedrooms within the Eco-tourist house.
As a tropical island, there will of course be insects including mosquitoes, cockroaches, spiders, beetles etc. They may occasionally come into the house as well. You need to take responsibility for cleaning the house as well as promoting sustainable tourism practices wherever possible.
Volunteers eat together in the staff canteen – 3 meals are provided each day. Breakfast usually includes a variety of cereals, eggs (either scrambled, fried or boiled), baked beans, a meat item (sausage or bacon etc.), porridge, and bread and jams, spreads etc Lunch and Dinner are buffet style with staples such as fish, rice and lentils provided every day. A second meat option is provided at every meal together with vegetables and various salads. Local and international cuisine is cooked.
There is a staff shop on site, where you can buy things like ice-cream, juices, wine, beer, cigarettes, various snacks and toiletries. There is clean drinking water available on the island and a water cooler with purified water is provided in the house.
WiFi is available in the volunteer house at all times.
How to get there
The main island of Mahé, is home to the Seychelles International Airport. You must arrive by Monday morning, in time to catch the 08:30 AM staff boat to North Island (which departs from the Marine Charter Harbour in Victoria). If you cannot find a flight arriving early on Monday morning, allowing enough time to get from the Airport to the Marine Charter Harbour for the 08:30 AM boat on Monday morning, then you can rather fly in to Mahé on the Sunday, and overnight.
The project will provide a pre-arranged and pre-paid taxi service from the Airport to any overnight accommodation that is within 10km of the Airport, in the direction of Victoria. If you book any accommodation falling outside of this radius, then you must arrange and pay for your own taxis.
Free Time
The assigned staff beach on North Island provides the perfect opportunity to go swimming, snorkelling or even a sun-downer after work in the afternoons. North Island equipment such as surfboards, paddle-boards and kayaks are available for use every day after 4pm, so there are plenty of opportunities to have fun!
You can expect to be active 6 days a week, with a rest day on Fridays. You can choose to spend your rest day on North Island, or you can accumulate your rest days to leave the island 3 days early at the end of your time on the project to visit other islands.
