Midway between Portugal and Brazil, the 10 islands of the Cape Verde is a paradise for sailing, fishing, diving or just relaxing.  Ever day is like a perfect English summer day with the temperatures ranging from 24C to 29C.   In winter it is 10 degrees warmer than southern Spain.  The sea is almost as warm and it hardly every rains and hurricanes are no-where to be seen.

Discovered by the Portuguese in 1460 the population is around 480,000.  The Cape Verdes share a Catholic, Portuguese-speaking, warm and friendly culture.  Many Cape Verdes people have relatives in the USA, so English is also spoken. 

Sal Island

Sal is Portuguese for salt and Sal was once famous for its salt pans. It still has a great salt lake at Pedro de Lume, where you can float high as in the Dead Sea.  But its attraction today is that it has the main airport in the Cape Verdes. It was first built by Benito Mussolini and now puts the Cape Verdes within six hours flight time of the UK.

Boa Vista

The Saharan island with miles of sand dunes, sprinkled with the odd oasis.   Just three hours from Sal by boat, or a short flight.  Its fine beaches have yet to attract many bathers.  Offshore wrecks include the Cecilia (Italy’s Titanic) and galleons containing gold coins.  It has one of the largest turtle breeding grounds in the world for loggerhead, hawkbill, leatherback and green turtles.  They land in June/July to breed.