Articles tagged with "Cape Verde"
Cape Verde suits older travelers unusually well: a manageable flight from Europe, no extreme heat, no altitude and no malaria risk to plan around. The one real decision is which islands.
An honest account of accessible travel in Cape Verde: what the resort islands can genuinely offer, what the mountain islands cannot, and how to plan around the gap.
Cape Verde is a creole nation formed on uninhabited islands, a hub of the Atlantic slave trade, and the origin of one of the most dispersed diasporas in the Atlantic world. What that means for a visitor tracing a connection.
What Cape Verde marks and when: the carnival that empties Mindelo into the street, the island saints’ days, and the older Santiago tradition that grew out of mutual aid among the enslaved.
What to know before you arrive: which language is spoken and which is official, why nothing starts on time, and the music that carries the country’s idea of itself.
Cape Verdean cooking is a slow-simmered maize and bean stew, a great deal of very good fish, and the history of an Atlantic crossroads in the store cupboard.
What the British and American governments actually say about Cape Verde, which is less than you might expect, and the ordinary precautions that do the real work here.
Cape Verde is an archipelago, so getting around is really two questions: how you move between islands and how you move on one. The answers are different, and the second is more interesting.
What to actually bring to an Atlantic archipelago that is hotter, windier and much drier than most people expect, and where the walking is on volcanic rock rather than paths.
What money to bring to Cape Verde, where a card will work and where it will not, and why the two resort islands behave differently from everywhere else.