Chapter 272: Seychelles Scattered

After Li Han returned to the UK, he really didn't care about it anymore, and only accompanied Lydia for the holidays to make up for the mistake of snubbing his girlfriend on Christmas Day. Seeing that his complexion and mood were much better, Lydia stopped mentioning the matter, and said, "There are still five days left before the New Year, why don't we go abroad for a few days off?" ”

"Good idea, let's find a warmer place, preferably by the sea or a hot spring, and have a good time for a few days."

The two were studying a map to see where to go, when Benedict and Tom suddenly arrived, both with their respective girlfriends. Li Han was a little surprised and asked, "What are your plans?" ”

Benedict laughed: "Yes, Tom and I discussed going on holiday to the Seychelles together, what do you think?" ”

Li Han laughed: "This is too coincidental, I was just discussing the vacation with Lydia, and I was still looking at the map, and I wasn't sure where to go." Then go to the Seychelles, what do you think, Lydia? I haven't been there yet. ”

Lydia originally wanted to let Li Han distract, so naturally she had no opinion. So they immediately booked a plane ticket to the Seychelles online, booked a villa as a residence for the six of them, and set off in the afternoon of the same day, putting aside all their worries and preparing to have a few days of fun.

Although it is not the best season in Seychelles, winter has passed, and the average temperature is 26 or 7 degrees, which is neither cold nor too hot, and it is more paradise than the cold and damp United Kingdom.

When they heard the radio that the plane was about to land, everyone hurriedly took off their down jackets and sweaters. The good thing is that most of them are experienced. I wore a T-shirt that I could see inside, and after taking it off, I changed it into sandals, and then I stuffed my clothes into my suitcase and dragged my luggage out. Li Han is more trouble-free, although he has not worn more than Zhenyuan in the past few days, but it is just a coat.

Seychelles is an archipelago, and naturally they live on the main island of Mahe. Located on the south side of Mahe, just 100 meters from the beach, the rented villa is a small two-storey building with beige walls and a large red roof. With a few tall coconut trees, a fine white beach and a blue sea. It's like a fairy tale.

Although the house is not big, there are several large bedrooms, which is enough for three of them. There is also a big pool at the back of the house facing the beach, so you can have a place to swim when you don't want to go to the sea. After all, the sea doesn't come down at any time. It is too dangerous at high tide or in waves.

On the ground floor is the large living room, large dining room, large kitchen and entertainment room. The four bedrooms on the second floor all have en-suite bathrooms and large balconies facing the beach. They chose a bedroom to live in. This villa was originally specially built for rent, and there is no main and guest bedroom, they are all about the same size.

After washing, I went out to find a restaurant and ate a big meal of seafood. At this time, it was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was not so strong, which was suitable for going to the sea to play. The attraction of Seychelles is the sea view, which is a holiday paradise, the sky is particularly empty, and there are few white clouds in sight. The sea is a deep shade of blue, with white sand lining the water, which is crystal clear.

They went back to the house to change into their bathing suits, moved a few of the beach chairs from the villa to the beach and set them up, while the ladies prepared cold freshly squeezed juice and cut fruit, and then lay down on the beach chairs and asked their men to help them apply sunscreen. Although the sun is not so poisonous now, the sun protection work should still be done well to avoid sunburn the skin. Especially Lydia, since she was with Li Han, she paid more attention to sun protection, because Li Han is still an Asian aesthetic and likes fair and delicate skin.

Not far away, a group of tourists are playing beach volleyball and some are surfing with sampans. After a while, a few ladies came over to join the beach volleyball team, except for a few men lounging on beach chairs and sipping cold drinks from cut fruit.

It's not that they don't want to move, it's just that they used to go on vacation with four people, but now there is suddenly one less, and the love between the three big men is not very high. Li Han was already guilty of Gavin's death, and Benedict and Tom were both sensual literary youths, so they inevitably sighed.

"I will avenge Gavin, let Gavin's soul rest in peace." Li Han finally thought about it himself, killed the robbers, destroyed the international criminal organization, and sent McLean to prison. It's not that he didn't see the worries of his friends and girlfriends, the living are more important than the dead.

Benedict stretched out his arm and patted him on the shoulder, breathing a sigh of relief: "It's good if you want to drive, come on, let's go play too, how about trying surfing?" ”

Tom also stood up: "My surfing skills are good, if you need to be taught, call the teacher, it's free." ”

Although Li Han has lost his true yuan, his skills are still there, his limbs are coordinated, his ability to control his body is very strong, and he is naturally very fast when he learns to surf. Although I didn't last a few seconds at the beginning and fell into the sea, I quickly mastered the key points of surfing, but in half an hour the skills were better than those two experienced hands, and I could play some tricks from time to time, and standing on the big waves was as steady as standing on flat ground.

The next day they went to one of the most famous spots in the Seychelles: the May Valley. From Mahe you can take a small propeller plane from Air Seychelles to Praslin, and the May Valley is located in the heart of Praslin.

If Seychelles is a paradise on earth, the Valley of May is the Garden of Eden in this paradise. The May Valley is the smallest natural heritage site in the world, at only 19.5 hectares, but it contains many plants that are unique in the world, as well as more than 7,000 sea coconut trees.

There are only three 1-meter-wide trails along the mountain in the whole valley for visitors to pass, and they did not look for a guide, but took a map to find the park's roadside explanation signs, and went to discover and learn about those rare animals and plants by themselves. Of course, the most natural is the sea coconut tree, the sea coconut on the tree makes them dare not approach at all, for fear that a sea coconut will fall and hit their heads, the smallest thing is 10 kilograms, and the head will definitely be broken if it is smashed down.

They slowly ascended the path to the north, which the map showed led to a pavilion at the top of the hill, where they could see the May Valley in its entirety, especially the 35-meter-tall King of the Sea Coconut Tree. The junction between the trunk and the roots of the coconut tree is like a joint of the human body, which can be rotated, and its trunk is very hard, cannot be swayed with the wind, and is easy to be broken by the wind, so this joint can ensure that the tree can rotate with the wind when the wind blows, reducing the pressure.

"It's amazing, no wonder it's okay with such a big sea breeze, and it can grow such a big fruit." Li Han, the only "soil bun" who has never been to the Seychelles, sighed, "With such a big sea coconut, I don't know if the ancient Seychellois hollowed them out and used them directly as boats." There are also washbasins and bathtubs that can also be used for this, which is really convenient. ”

Everyone imagined the scene for a moment, and they were embarrassed. It's really convenient, but it seems strange, you must know that this sea coconut is not only big, but also different in shape from the coconut, and the fruit of the female sea coconut tree looks like a woman's buttocks. But then come to think of it, if they were to be stranded on a desert island, like Robinson, these sea coconut shells would really come in handy. It is much more useful than the male sea coconut tree, whose fruit is thick and long, like a man's big ding, and it is also soft and useless.

Sea coconut trees have an extremely long growing period, starting with huge seeds falling into the soil, which usually takes one to two months to germinate, and then grows only one leaf per year. When 15 leaves have grown, the trunk grows. After another 15 to 25 years, the trunk grows to a height of nearly 25 meters and enters sexual maturity. It will take another 10 years for the coconut fruit to ripen and fall. In this way, the growth period of a sea coconut is basically close to half a century.

Li Han's first reaction was: Wu Chengen, who wrote Journey to the West, has actually heard of sea coconut, right? Five thousand years of flowering, five thousand years of fruit, and five thousand years of maturity, isn't it an exaggerated version of the sea coconut?

Even more amazing than the sea coconut tree is LatanyenLat, which is Creole, and none of them know what it should be translated into English. The magic of this tree is that the trunk does not rise from the ground, but stands out of nowhere, about 1 meter above the ground. It is supported by the roots of the tree, which are about 5 centimeters thick, and are deeply and diagonally inserted into the soil one by one, giving the impression that they are standing but can pull their "legs" forward at any time.

According to the guidebook, the seedlings of LatanyenLat are no different from other palm plants, and the stems also grow on the ground, which is special because the roots not only grow downward, but also go upwards, and the top of the stem is lifted off the ground, the higher the top. For adult trees, there are no longer gaps in the roots of the ground, as if a thick tube skirt is wrapped around the tree. With this special skill, it can grow lightly in streams.

Li Han shook his head and said, "This is simply a refinement, if they suddenly turn into human form, I won't be even more surprised." Nature is just amazing. "Most of these trees grow in valley streams, and this is the result of nature's survival of the fittest, whether it is animals or plants, they need to adapt to nature and then evolve.

When you come to the pavilion at the top of the mountain, you can see the scenery of the May Valley from the high mountain. Not far away, the woods are filled with the sound of birdsong, the national bird of the Seychelles, the black parrot, and the only one in the world that can be seen here. There was a group of tour groups next to it, and the tour guide used a whistle to attract a few black parrots, and everyone realized that the "black" parrots were not black, but coffee-colored, but because they often flew around in the woods, the distance and the lack of clear sight, so they were considered black.

Benedict joked, "The first time I saw a black parrot, I almost had to ask for its name to be corrected, it was like calling a gentleman named Green with the surname Yellow." ”

Li Han Khan, what kind of metaphor is this, there are still people with the surname white and the surname black, do they still have to change all of them to yellow...... But it is true that this name makes the black parrot a little aggrieved, the bird family is obviously not so dark, and the human family changed the surname to black because of the lameness. (To be continued......)