Cerf Island
Moyenne Island has no restaurant, no shop and nowhere to sit down, because nobody lives on it. Cerf Island, a few hundred metres away, has all three. That is why so many listings pair the two: one for the forest and the tortoises, the other for lunch.
Quick answer
Cerf Island is the inhabited island of Sainte Anne Marine National Park, and it is where most trips have lunch. The most reviewed listing on this page — $87 with 1,139 ratings — visits both Moyenne and Cerf in six hours, which is the standard shape of a Seychelles day in the marine park.
Why the pairing works
The forest in the morning, the beach and lunch in the afternoon.
Moyenne is a forest, not a facility. Nine and a half hectares of planted trees, paths and tortoises, with no shop, no shade beyond the canopy and nowhere to have lunch. That is exactly what makes it worth visiting, and it is also why nobody spends a whole day there.
Cerf is where the day becomes comfortable. Beaches, a couple of restaurants, and somewhere to sit. Most operators land on Moyenne Island in the morning and cross to Cerf for lunch and an afternoon swim.
Which is why the six-hour Moyenne-and-Cerf listing is the most booked trip in the niche by a wide margin. It is not a compromise; it is the shape of the day that actually works.
Cerf Island is close enough to Moyenne that you can see one from the other. Most listings treat them as a single day rather than two destinations.
Which trip is best→Book direct
Four listings that pair Moyenne with Cerf or another stop.
★ 4.2 · 1,139 reviews
★ 4.6 · 568 reviews
★ 4.6 · 321 reviews
★ 4.4 · 36 reviews
Common questions
In Sainte Anne Marine National Park, a few hundred metres from Moyenne Island and a short crossing from Victoria on Mahé.
Yes, unlike Moyenne. It has a small resident population, beaches and a couple of restaurants.
Most of them. It is usually where lunch happens, after a morning on Moyenne Island.
Yes — it is inside the same protected water as the rest of the marine park.
The six-hour listing at $87 is the most booked, with 1,139 ratings. Several others pair them too.
No. The national park fee applies on Moyenne Island itself.
Go deeper
One man, 16,000 trees and forty years. The story behind the park.
CostFrom $83, and the park fee nobody mentions.
The parkProtected since 1973, and the first marine park in the Indian Ocean.
The verdictFourteen listings, and the four worth your day.
TortoisesAround fifty of them, and how they got there.
SnorkellingWhat you actually see, and which trips put you in the water.
Mahé: Saint-Anne Marine Park and Moyenne Island Cruise
★ 4.9 · 646 reviews · Free cancellation 24 h