A Brief History

The Seychelles island consisting of 115 islands scattered in the western Indian Ocean,4 degrees south of the equator. Though our islands wasknown to Arab navigators, it remained uninhabited until the 1770’s whenthe islands were first settled by the French.Under the French a spice garden was introduced to our island under theinstruction on Pierre Poivre who introduced cinnamon to our islands.The short reign of the French lasted until 1811 when the island were takenover by the British until we received our independence on 29th June 1976.

Today Seychelles has a population of about 100,000, with our creole descent, mixed between African, European and Asian.