Cape Verde Island, or Cape Verde

The island of Cape Verde, discovered by the Portuguese in the middle of the fifteenth century, today it is customary to call it in the original language. At the time of discovery, it was uninhabited, but now there live Creole, who profess Catholicism and speak their own language. True, the inhabitants of tiny patches of land near Africa perfectly understand French, English and Spanish, and Portuguese is official.

Some general data

The islands of Cape Verde on the map can be found easily: it is an archipelago located at Cape Verde in Africa. Up to the mainland, about 600 km to the east. The group includes a dozen small islands, which form in the plan something similar to a circle. Nine of them are inhabited and known in the circle of tourists.

The archipelago is in the Atlantic Ocean. If from it to swim to the north and overcome 1500 km, you can get to the Canary Islands, distant from Europe about the same distance. Having sailed 6000 km to the west, the ship will stick to the shores of the New World. After 2000 km to the south there is the equator, but it's not worth moving further. There is not a single patch of land to Antarctica.

The Island of Cape Verde is separated from other parts of the archipelago by straits of 100-150 kilometers wide. The ocean in them is very much worried, and sharks are teeming in the waters. Therefore, travelers increasingly choose the air way. Even between the islands of this state, small modern airplanes fly. Brave men, of course, can use the services of ferries, there are two in the state. But the trip to them will be long - up to several days, so vacationers from abroad do not want to waste precious time on the road.

Paradise for the tourist

The island of Cape Verde - and so it is customary to call this corner of the planet, has wonderful opportunities for recreation. Here is a very good sea - warm, clean, gentle all year round. Very wide beaches with fine golden sand are conquered at first sight. And lovers of exotics like the black beaches, strewn with dark sand of volcanic origin.

Gurmanov The Island of Cape Verde treats with fish and seafood dishes of enormous size. Portions in Cape Verde are also very large. In restaurants, meat is served, although cattle breeding is poorly developed due to unfavorable climatic conditions. But vegetables and fruits in the markets more than enough.

Mass tourism

There are very few visitors to the archipelago, although tourism is actively developing there: about thirty thousand people come here each year, who stay in cozy modern hotels (there are even four-star hotels). In the institutions there are swimming pools, excursion bureau, a point of rent of different transport, discos, diving centers. The service here is excellent, the staff is very polite. Therefore, the Cape Verde Islands may well compete with Turkey or Egypt.

Caboverdiytsy hospitable and polite, but they expect the guests to observe the rules of decency. There is virtually no conflict of cultures, an exclusively benevolent atmosphere, better than at home.

Lunar landscape

But this paradise on the African coast is fraught with danger. Not from sharks, no. They rarely attack a person. There is a very bright and hot sun and a strong fresh wind. And although it seems that the heat is completely tolerated, it is possible to get very hot on the beaches very soon.

Cape Verde is a desert with a characteristic landscape (lunar) and only half of one island will be pleased with a small amount of greenery. The wet season here begins in August, and then the barren sands reincarnate. Rains and hurricanes are rampant until October, and then the islets again turn into a desert.

This is the country of Cape Verde - beautiful, special and very musical!