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Hiking in Cape Verde Part 3: Corda – Coculi

Hiking in Cape Verde Part 3: Corda – Coculi

This is another hike you can do in either direction – we chose the easy one down again. There is also easy transport to Ribeira Grande from both ends. We planned to take an Aluguer from Ribeira Grande, and it looked good at the beginning. „Collectivo?“ we asked the driver and he nodded. But when after 15 minutes we still remained the only passengers in his Toyota Hiace, he told us we could either wait until 2 in the afternoon,…

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Hiking in Cape Verde Part 2: Walking down from Cova de Paúl to Paúl Ribeira

Hiking in Cape Verde Part 2: Walking down from Cova de Paúl to Paúl Ribeira

  This one is pretty famous, well at least it’s in both guidebooks we took with us. Still, you don’t have to fear masses of people there. On our way we met three other tourists. And two locals. It’s not a round trip, you can either go up (if you’re really tough, it’s 1000 meter ascent in just 3 kilometer or so), or down, like we did. We took a taxi to the crater. I guess you can try to…

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Hiking in Cape Verde Part 1: Ribeira do Paúl – Pico d’Antonio – Figueiral – Passagem – Paúl

Hiking in Cape Verde Part 1: Ribeira do Paúl – Pico d’Antonio – Figueiral – Passagem – Paúl

This was the first proper hike we did after Henry was on the mend from his gastritis. And still, after we’ve done a couple of more hikes, remains to be our one of our favorites. From our guesthouse, Casa das Ilhas in the Paúl valley, we took an Aluguer up the ribeira, literally to the end of the road: Cabo da Ribeira. Next we asked our way to Cha de Mato. It was easy for like 15 minutes, while we…

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