
Veuve Nature Reserve
Veuve Nature Reserve
Seychelles Islands
Last updated: February 11, 2026
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Visitor Reviews
**★★★★★ Amanda Cohn — 3 months ago
Beautiful park with well maintained trails through lush jungle. The park was created to preserve the Seychelles paradise flycatcher, and is the best place to see this extremely rare bird. The staff person was informative and friendly, great place to stop and learn about nature while biking around the island.
**★★★★★ Tim Oldham — 2 years ago
Elsie gave a fantastic tour, we saw and learned so much that we would have missed otherwise. Don't be put off by anything - just go. Just awesome.
**★★★★★ Oxana S — 2 years ago
I came here for the Veuve (around 200+ are left in the world) and I wasn't disappointed. Ranger was amazing and taught me a lot of things about endemic flora and fauna. It was a magic moment when after hearing the call on the phone birds came to us. Males are black in color with a blue spot close to the eye and females have brown color, but both are amazingly beautiful birds. Yes, there were some mosquitos, but if you are in a tropic forest always bring your mosquito repellent. Seychelles has a
**★★★☆☆ Inga W. — 11 months ago
Unfortunately we couldn't see the paradise flycatcher. Maybe it was due to the leaf blower that was used by some staff of the park, being super noisy. I'm not an expert, but I can imagine that this disturbs the birds a lot. Please find a different method to remove the leaves.
**★☆☆☆☆ Saifudin Sharityar (Sa) — 2 years ago
- Very unfriendly staff.
- Why you have to pay entrance fee for a very small piece of forest that is 100m x 50m.
- It seems that they want to make money of every piece of tree here. Insolence!










