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North Island Lodge
How They Dazzle Us
The dream of a private, tropical island paradise doesn’t have to be a dream anymore. The incredible North Island in the Seychelles is everything you could wish for and more. This is a completely private island with pristine beaches and giant granite peaks. It is adorned with palm trees and tropical vegetation, all features that combine to make this Landing a little slice of paradise. With just 11 villas on this spectacular island, your footprints will be the only evidence of human occupation that you will find on the Island’s vast, untouched beaches.
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Their Sustainable Superpower
Announced as one of the world’s top 100 sustainable destinations at the Global Green Destinations Days Event held in Croatia on October 2019, this Landing is totally focussed on doing no harm, on restoring damage and rebuilding ecosystems wherever possible. Having created one of the world’s most exclusive privateisland destinations, North Island has also gone all out to safeguard the island’s environment and its rich biodiversity, transforming it into a haven for endangered species – both plant and animal. Now well into its second decade, the ‘Noah’s Ark’ rehabilitation project has made substantial progress towards restoring the island as a natural paradise, where rare species such as the Seychelles White-eye, Giant Aldabra Tortoise and Hawksbill Turtle can flourish once more.
Why We Love Them
Most Landings and tourist destinations have business plans which they seek to implement in a manner that is as sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible. But the team at North Island have come at things from another angle. They don’t have a business plan at all, they have a philosophy, the first two points of which state that they always honour the environment in which they live and work above all else and that their unceasing endeavour will always be to turn back the ecological clock. The rest flows from these tenets and we love that! Yes, you are pampered at North Island. The levels of luxury are extraordinary as is the attention to detail
. It probably goes without saying that when you are the only inhabitants of an island paradise there is nowhere to hide in the event that there is litter or pollution. They have gone all out to keep the island perfect, and they manage to get it right!
