• 2-hour long guided tour of Bel Air Cemetery
• Explore the national monument of Seychelles, The Bel Air Cemetery
• Observe many important milestones, vaults and shrines tombs of many eminent personalities
• Plenty of photo opportunities! Click amazing pictures to cherish a memory of a lifetime

The Bel Air Cemetery was the first official burial ground to be opened on Mahe Island by the French. Here you will see many important milestones, vaults, shrines tombs of many eminent personalities. The graves of pirate Jean- Francois Hodoul and Pierre-Louis Poiret, son of Louise XVI are must watch.

Counted among the oldest historic site in Seychelles, The Bel Air Cemetery was opened in the late 1780's by the settlers who created the L’Etablissement du Roi on Mahé Island in 1778. This oldest historic site contain the remains of some of the islands’ most famous personalities such as corsair Jean-Francois Hodoul and the nine feet tall Charles Drorthee Savy, poisoned at the age of 14 by neighbors, fearful of his height. Pierre-Louise Poiret who claimed to be the son of Louise XVI is also buried here. You will also find the graves of the victims of the smallpox epidemic of 1883 here. At the entrance, you will see the words ‘’Belle pensee d’un commandant bienaisant” engraved on a slab.