Shake your booty, find your bliss at this exclusive treasure in the Seychelles

Once a port of pirates and pioneers, Sainte Anne island in the Seychelles is now a private Club Med playground — and it's pure holiday gold

06 August 2023 - 00:00 By Elizabeth Sleith

Supine on a beach lounger, I have an open book over my eyes to block out the sun and a hissing in my ears that has me sure: it was the sea that whispered the name to the first settlers: Ssssaaaaaay ... it rushes up over the sand. Shhhhhells. It recedes. Say shells. Seychelles. ..

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