When Beijinger Rex Yang arrived in Seychelles in late January, he did not expect that a planned two-week family holiday would stretch to three months, with no end in sight.
Little did he know, he would also become an accidental ambassador for the country’s tourism industry.
The Yang family is still stranded on the island of La Digue, the third-largest in the Seychelles archipelago in the Indian Ocean off East Africa.
The family’s stay was originally extended because Yang’s mother was unwell, and then further prolonged because Seychelles’ international airport was shut down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Before the virus crisis took hold, the 33-year-old, his mother, sister and n
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May 12, 2020