The Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke Market in the centre of Victoria is the commercial and social hub of the Seychelles. Open daily except Sunday, with the best activity in the mornings from around 6am to noon. The ground floor handles fish — enormous parrotfish, red snapper, and barracuda laid out on ice — while the upper level deals in tropical fruit, spices, and vegetables. Stalls sell fresh coconuts, vanilla pods, cinnamon, and dried fish to take home.
The market is a few minutes' walk from the Victoria Clock Tower, a cast-iron replica of the Little Ben clock in London that was erected in 1903 to mark the island's status as a Crown Colony. Around the clock tower, the small city centre has a handful of craft shops, pharmacies, and banks. It is genuinely walkable in an hour — the whole of Victoria fits in a small radius — but the market is the one place where the town feels alive.