Berlitz Pocket Guide Cape Verde (Travel Guide eBook)
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Berlitz Pocket Guide Cape Verde Islands: iconic style, a bestselling brand, this is the quintessential pocket-sized travel guide to the Cape Verde Islands
Compact, concise, and packed with essential information, this is an iconic on-the-move companion when you're exploring the Cape Verde Islands
Covers Top Ten Attractions, including Praia de Santa Maria on Sal, Faja d'Agua on Brava and Parque Natural do Fogo, and Perfect Day itinerary suggestions
Includes an insightful overview of landscape, history and culture
Handy colour maps on the inside cover flaps will help you find your way around
Essential practical information on everything from Eating Out to Getting Around
Inspirational colour photography throughout
Sharp design and colour-coded sections make for an engaging reading experience
About Berlitz: Berlitz draws on years of travel and language expertise to bring you a wide range of travel and language products, including travel guides, maps, phrase books, language-learning courses, dictionaries and kids' language products.
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Getting Around the e-Book
This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Cape Verde Islands, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.
The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Cape Verde Islands, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.
In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.
Maps
All key attractions and sights in Cape Verde Islands are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.
Images
You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Cape Verde Islands. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.
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Table of Contents
Cape Verde Islands’s Top 10 Attractions
Top Attraction #1
Top Attraction #2
Top Attraction #3
Top Attraction #4
Top Attraction #5
Top Attraction #6
Top Attraction #7
Top Attraction #8
Top Attraction #9
Top Attraction #10
A Perfect Tour In Cape Verde
Introduction
Natural Beauty
Blend of Cultures
Recent Growth
A Brief History
Exploration and Settlement
The Trading Years
Droughts and Disasters
The Struggle for Independence
Independent Cape Verde
Cape Verde Today
Historical Landmarks
Where To Go
Which Islands?
Sal
Boa Vista
Maio
Santiago
Fogo
Brava
São Vicente
Santo Antão
São Nicolau
Sal
Santa Maria
Exploring Sal
Boa Vista
Sal Rei
Exploring Boa Vista
Maio
Vila do Maio
Exploring Maio
Santiago
Praia
Cidade Velha
Exploring Santiago
Fogo
São Filipe
Parque Natural do Fogo
Around Fogo
Brava
Vila Nova Sintra
Exploring Brava
São Vicente
Mindelo
Exploring São Vicente
Santo Antão
Porto Novo to Ribeira Grande
Exploring Santo Antão
São Nicolau
Vila da Ribeira Brava
Exploring São Nicolau
What To Do
Sports and Outdoor Activities
Watersports
Hiking
Wildlife Watching
Off-Road Adventures
Local Pastimes
Shopping
Entertainment
Children’s Cape Verde
Calendar of Events
Eating Out
Where to Eat
What to Eat
Fish
Speciality Dishes
Cheese, Fruit and Desserts
What to Drink
Reading the Menu
To Help You Order in Portuguese…
… and Read the Menu (a Ementa)
Restaurants
Sal
Boa Vista
Maio
Santiago
Fogo
Brava
São Vicente
Santo Antão
São Nicolau
A–Z Travel Tips
A
Accommodation
Airports
B
Bicycle Rental
Budgeting for Your Trip
C
Car Hire
Climate
Clothing
Crime and safety
D
Driving
E
Electricity
Embassies and Consulates
Emergencies
G
Getting There
Guides and Tours
H
Health and Medical Care
L
Language
LGBTQ Travellers
M
Maps
Media
Money
O
Opening Times
P
Police
Post Offices
Public Holidays
T
Telephones
Time Zone
Tipping
Toilets
Tourist Information
Transport
Travellers with Disabilities
V
Visas and Entry Requirements
W
Websites and Internet Access
Recommended Hotels
Sal
Boa Vista
Maio
Santiago
Fogo
Brava
São Vicente
Santo Antão
São Nicolau
Dictionary
English–Portuguese
Portuguese–English
Cape Verde Islands’s Top 10 Attractions
Top Attraction #1
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Carnival
Noise, colour, glitter and feathers add up to an unforgettable celebration, at its best in Mindelo. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #2
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Fajã d’Água
A stunningly situated village on Brava, one of the country’s smallest and prettiest islands. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #3
Alamy
Praia de Santa Maria
Turquoise sea off the coast of Sal, perfect for watersports. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #4
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Fontainhas
An impossibly picturesque mountain village on Santo Antão, reached by a winding coastal road. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #5
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Parque Natural do Fogo
Cape Verde’s only live volcano, Pico do Fogo, is a perfect cone of lava and ash. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #6
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Vale do Paúl
Lush, green hiking country on Santo Antão, bursting with tropical fruit trees. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #7
Emma Gregg/Apa Publications
Cidade Velha
The cradle of Cape Verdean society on Santiago, with a fort and ruins to explore. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #8
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Mindelo
The capital of São Vicente is an invigorating place to experience café culture, island-style. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #9
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Parque Natural de Monte Gordo
A unique mountain region in the shadow of a mighty extinct volcano on São Nicolau. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #10
Emma Gregg/Apa Publications
Deserto de Viana
Enormous drifts of beautiful, shifting sand, accumulated on Boa Vista over millennia. For more information, click here.
A Perfect Tour In Cape Verde
Day 1
Santa Maria
Head for Santa Maria and spend half a day at the sandy Praia de Santa Maria beach, sunbathing and swimming in the turquoise water. In the afternoon take a stroll in the village, watch the fishermen unload their catch at the Pontão jetty, then enjoy a relaxed dinner at a local restaurant.
Day 2
Ponta Preta and Pedra de Lume
If you‘re into surfing, head for Ponta Preta, Cape Verde’s most famous windsurfing location, slightly northwest of Santa Maria. Alternatively, hire a car and drive to the east coast to the Salinas at Pedra de Lume’s, a rudimentary saltwater spa in an extinct volcanic crater. Float effortlessly on the salty water and treat yourself to a relaxing massage.
Day 3
Boa Vista
Fly to Boa Vista, then hire a 4x4 and go off-roading amidst picturesque shifting dunes and extinct volcanoes. Visit the small, cosy town of Sal Rei and watch Cape Verdeans playing oril, the local version of the game of holes and seeds.
Day 4
Mindelo
Fly to São Vicente. On arrival in São Pedro’s aerodrome, check out the monument to the São Vicente-born Barefoot Diva,
Cesária Évora. Stroll the cobblestone streets of Mindelo and admire the colourful merchants’ houses, and be sure to grab a snack at the hippest place in town, Café Mindelo.
Day 5
Santo Antão
Hop on a ferry from Mindelo to Santo Antão. The only truly green island in Cape Verde, it boasts spectacular valleys and hills. Enjoy a day’s hiking or go on a mountain bike tour with an experienced guide. In the evening, take the ferry back to São Vicente.
Day 6
Praia
Fly to the capital Praia, on Santiago, for a day of history and culture. Visit the Museu Etnográfico to see some magnificent examples of pano weaving and the Museu de Arqueologia for an exhibition of shipwreck salvage. After sunset head to the legendary music venue, Quintal de Música, to hear local music at its best.
Day 7
Cidade Velha
Take a bus to Cidade Velha (Old Town), a Unesco World Heritage site west of Praia. Check out the ruins of the cathedral, the pillory where enslaved captives were once chained up and walk up the hill to Fortaleza Real de São Filipe for stunning views.
Day 8
Fogo
Fly to Fogo, take in São Filipe’s lovely colonial houses and sobrados, then head by car for Chã das Caldeiras in Parque Natural do Fogo, to taste local wine and dine on fresh fish. From Fogo fly back to Sal.
Introduction
Rising in a cluster from the stormy Atlantic, the islands that make up the tiny West African nation of Cape Verde are extraordinarily varied. Hop from one to the next and you could be burying your toes in powder-soft sand one day and striding up a country track as steep as a staircase the next. You could be snorkelling with loggerhead turtles and listening to whale song, or soaking up the impassioned strains of a fiddle and guitar band; sipping caipirinhas in a sophisticated café, or sharing a bowl of maize and beans with a family of farmers; contemplating a lonely hillside with not a soul in sight, or shaking your booty with the rest of the crazy crowd at an all-singing, all-dancing carnival parade.
Natural Beauty
Geographically, the nine inhabited islands are divided into two groups situated around 600km (370 miles) west of Senegal – the Ilhas de Sotavento, or leeward islands, to the south, and the Ilhas de Barlovento, or windward islands, to the north. It’s arguably more convenient, however, to think of them as three groups of three: the desert islands of Sal, Boa Vista and Maio to the east, the mountainous islands of Santiago, Fogo and Brava to the southwest, and the mountainous islands of São Vicente, Santo Antão and São Nicolau to the northwest. Their combined surface area is just over 4,000 sq km (1,500 sq miles).
All the islands are volcanic in origin, but all are very different in age, and this makes their landscapes diverse in the extreme. The oldest islands to the east are weatherworn and flat, while the conspicuously active volcano of Fogo - the highest point on Cape Verde at 2,829 metres (9,281ft) - in the southwest is a near-perfect cone. In between are the middle-aged islands, their fires long extinguished but their mountains still strikingly jagged and steep. All have a dry, tropical climate, lying in the direct path of the northeasterly trade winds that once powered transatlantic adventurers to these shores, and now attract windsurfers and kitesurfers in search of the ultimate adrenalin high.
The stunning dunes of Praia de Chaves on Boa Vista
Emma Gregg/Apa Publications
The islands’ many kilometres of coastline include rocky shelves containing pools and blowholes; dazzling strands of white, crushed coral; and dramatic black beaches of fine dark lava gravel. Beneath the surface are ancient marine deposits, lava caves and coral reefs patrolled by tropical fish, turtles, dolphins and whales, as well as shipwrecks and their scattered cargo. On land, the landscape is