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ASTOVE CORAL HOUSE

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ASTOVE CORAL HOUSE
Category: Superior first category
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    Located at 1045 km

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Under the Management of Mrs Daniella Payet Alis whose past experiences in the last 40 years in selling and promoting The Seychelles Islands started as:

- Tourist Guide and then manage her father’s Ground Operating Agency in the 1970s
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ASTOVE CORAL HOUSE - Astove Atoll

In 1968 Astove was occupied by the Veevers-Carter family who established a coconut plantation. They constructed a number of buildings including a large main house, chapel, store and accommodation for the workers. The small settlement they created has been renovated, and is now the basis of the accommodation used today. Surrounding a central courtyard, the Coral House has six charming and comfortable rooms.

Uninhabited since 1969, Astove makes for a wild experience. The key to the experience is how very little has been changed in the House, allowing guests a sense of how the Veevers-Carter family would have enjoyed the house. Guests will enjoy the attentive service as well as superb dining. The menu frequently comprises of a full English breakfast, a buffet or packed picnic lunch to enjoy on location, and a buffet dinner served in the indoor or outdoor dining area. The food is inspired by the traditional Seychellois Creole-cuisine with freshly caught fish being the key ingredient.

Evening sundowners are enjoyed most evenings at a beautiful spot on the beach, allowing everyone to gather and discuss the events of the day. With picture-perfect beaches, edged by palm trees and with not another soul in sight, Astove Atoll is wonderfully unique.

Astove forms part of the Aldabra Group of Atolls and is one of the most remote inhabited islands in Seychelles. To ensure that the atoll stays pristine, Astove Coral House only caters from six to 12 guests per week.

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The island : Astove Atoll

ASTOVE CORAL HOUSE

Featuring pristine, white beaches, an abundance of birds and fishes and the famous ‘Astove Wall’, Astove Island is located in Astove Atoll 1,041 km southwest of Mahé Island. It is a raised coral island with a lagoon in the centre, with only one exit via a winding passage in the south called Gueule Bras Channel. The lagoon includes some sandbanks and smaller islands inside it.

The name Astove is said to be derived from the Portuguese 'As Doze Island', meaning the twelve islands. By official record the island lay uninhabited until the year 1760 when the Portuguese frigate ‘La Dom Royal’ ran aground on Astove Island. It is said that the ship carried a profitable treasure as well as slaves. All aboard made it to the island, but the captain and crew soon left for Mozambique. They never returned for the slaves, who formed a community and survived off of the plantations of the island and fruits of the sea until they were all evacuated some time later.

After seeing many people come and go, the island was eventually abandoned in the 1970's where it lay untouched until, in 2014, it was declared a nature reserve; over time a fishing resort and lodge has been built on the island.