There is hardly any traffic between the islands. There are very few ships and a flight from
island to another often takes longer than the journey from Europe to Cabo Verde.
The international airports are on Sal and Boavista. And so tourism is also there in
Form of a few large "all inclusive" hotel complexes remained.
Each island is an experience in itself and sailing between the islands is a dream.
The weather is incredible 12 months of the year with no, or very very little rain.
Swimming in December in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean at 28 degrees is possible every day.
Despite the proximity of the equator it is a very balanced climate.
In summer it is mostly between 28 and 32 degrees and so it is much cooler than in the summer.
Example the temperatures in Spain.
The wind blows 90 % from northeast and is a dry desert wind from the Sahara.
So one feels the temperatures not so hot, because the tropical humidity is completely missing.
What we as visitors like about the dry weather is a daily problem for the people who live there. Water is luxury and scarce commodity. Agriculture is very difficult to do and so islands like Sal and Sao Vicente
are moonscapes with beach and the islands Boa Vista and Maio are beauties of dunes and desert and moonscapes. Sao Nicolau is wildly untouched and worth seeing.
Santiago is for us the most beautiful and fascinating of all islands, full of life and it is really Africa. It is colourful and green, with many villages and small towns and incredible mountain formations with bays
with black and silver sandy beaches on the outskirts.
San Antao is also green and mountainous. But completely different from Santiago, other mountain formations, no beaches and also hardly inhabited. It is a hardly touched mountainous natural paradise.
The volcanic island of Fogo is without beaches and has hardly any bays, the volcano is an event and worth seeing. It is the island with the most agriculture on Cabo Verde.
It is worth a journey.