Itinerary

1. Santiago Island Tour

   • Pick up in the morning at your accommodation and take you to the interior of Santiago island, it´s the largest island of Cabo Verde it takes a full-day tour to explore and experience the best of it with plenty of cultural and historical places to visit, It´s the best way to discover the entire island. 
   • Our first stop will be at SÃO DOMINGOS CITY to visit a small garden called “Eco Centro” a perfect place for fauna and flora lovers. We will continue our visit with a short stop at ORGÃOS and PICOS CITY to admire two impressive mountains symbolising those cities.
   • Moving on to Assomada city, the second largest city and most developed city on the island after Praia. The city has a lot of tourist attractions to visit, such as its two famous markets and the museum. 
   • It has one of the most beautiful churches in the country. You will visit a small village called Boa Entrada, which is a green valley with a lot of fruit plants. 
   • You will be taken to a small park with the biggest and oldest tree(Kapok tree) in Cabo Verde, over 700 years old. 
   • Our next stop will be at the SERRA MALAGUETA NATURAL PARK; the incredible view is due to its altitude (1000 meters), continuing our visit to the most tourist city on the island –TARRAFAL CITY. It has the most beautiful beach on the island (white sand). You will have a break, during which you can have lunch and swim. 
   • After lunch, we will drive back, this time to the wonderful east coast, stopping at the VILLAGE OF RABELADOS-rebels who resisted the Portuguese colonizer in 1941. The houses are built of coconut tree trunks and ropes made with fibres of sisal and intertwined coconut leaves. 
   • Move on to Calheta city- a small city on the east coast where the locals depend on fishing, the perfect place to contact the locals. 
   • Drive on to Pedra Badejo city- the city is so famous and visited because it has the largest banana and coconut plantation in Cabo Verde; 15 min. hike on the plantation, and the tour will end with a drop-off at your accommodation.