Luxury holidays in Cape Verde
Walk the cliff paths above Santo Antão's terraced valleys, then hear live morna in Mindelo at night. We time every ferry and flight between the islands and book your guides and hotels.
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Cape Verde
8 days · 7 nights
Mindelo → Ribeira Grande → Ponta do Sol → Paul → Mindelo
There are no set excursions on this trip: hotels, ferries and transfers are arranged, and the days are yours. Start with two nights in Mindelo, then move around Santo Antão from Ribeira Grande to Ponta do Sol and the green Paul Valley before crossing back to São Vicente.
Cape Verde
8 days · 7 nights
Mindelo → Santo Antão → Ponta do Sol → Mindelo
Begin in Mindelo, the cultural heart of Cape Verde, with a guided walk through its squares and markets. Cross by ferry to Santo Antão for four free days split between the island's interior and the seaside village of Ponta do Sol, then return to São Vicente for a last evening.
Cape Verde is for travellers who have done the obvious islands and want somewhere with its own sound. In Mindelo on São Vicente, bars fill with morna, the soulful music Cesária Évora carried to the world, and pastel colonial streets lead down to the harbour. The islands sit in the Atlantic about 600 kilometres off Senegal, warm and dry for most of the year.
A short ferry crosses to Santo Antão, the greenest island, where paths cling to cliffs above valleys of sugar cane and banana. Fogo rises to an active volcano you can climb, and Sal and Boa Vista have long white beaches and steady trade winds for kitesurfing. Portuguese and West African roots run through the food and the music.
Mindelo gives you the evenings, and Santo Antão gives you the trails.
A harbour town of pastel colonial buildings, known as the home of morna music and its live evenings.
Volcanic peaks, terraced valleys around Paul and Ribeira Grande, and the cliffside village of Ponta do Sol.
Most of the year is warm and dry, and the brief rains around September bring green to the valleys.
Dry and mild, with steady trade winds on the coast.
Warm days and cool mountain air for walking.
Dry and sunny, comfortable for hiking Santo Antão.
Warm, settled weather and calm seas for the ferry crossing.
Sunny, dry and pleasant on the trails.
Warmer days and light winds before the rains.
Hot on the coast, cooler in the mountains.
Short rainy season begins, with humid days and showers.
The wettest month, heavy downpours possible in the mountains.
Rains ease, valleys on Santo Antão at their greenest.
Green landscapes and dry trails after the rains.
Mild and dry, a lively month for music in Mindelo.
Most travellers reach Sal or São Vicente through Lisbon, often as an add-on to a Portugal trip.
Lisbon is a direct flight north, and Portuguese culture is part of what you hear in Cape Verde.
Porto's port cellars, Lisbon's trams and the Algarve coast.
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