Cape Verde: Best Selected Hikes

Arrival in Praia on the island of Santiago, welcome at the airport and transfer to Praia for an overnight stay in a guest house.
guest house.

Type of accommodation: guest house.

Enjoy one of Santiago's most popular walks, a perfect combination of a pleasant stroll through a green valley and a World Heritage Site, leading to a magical baobab tree and an endemic bird.

Ascent: 20 m

Descent: 200m

Distance: 4 km

Type of accommodation: guest house.

This hike offers visitors a real encounter with the rural world of the island of Santiago. As you pass through some rural villages, you will be able to accompany the locals as they go about their daily work in the field.

Ascent +: 400 metres
Difference in altitude - : 550 metres

Distance: 8 km

Type of accommodation: guest house.

Explore the natural surroundings of the Serra Malagueta Natural Park and walk through the island's greenest valley to meet the villages at the bottom of the valley and discover the flora and fauna of the Natural Park area.

Ascent +: 200 metres
Difference in altitude - : 900 metres

Type of accommodation: guest house.

Depending on your flight schedule, you can stroll through the bean and apple plantations and even climb up to the small volcanic crater where the island's last volcanic eruption took place.

Ascent +: 250 metres
Difference in altitude - : 300 metres

Distance: 6 km

Type of accommodation: guest house.

This hike is a little more demanding and requires good physical condition on the part of the hikers, with lava and basalt paths to the summit of the still active volcano, but which offers a unique experience to those who reach the top.

Ascent +/-: 1100m

Type of accommodation: guest house.

This is one of the most different and unique trails, always descending, it starts in the lava flows of previous years and crosses the Monte Velha Natural Park, and finally through coffee, guava and orange plantations to the village of Mosteiros.

Ascent + : 0 metres
Difference in altitude - : 1300 metres

Distance : 12 km

Type of accommodation: guest house.

Depending on your flight, you will be transferred to your accommodation in the centre of Mindelo.

Type of accommodation: guest house.

After an early breakfast, you will cross to the nearby island of Santo Antao by boat. Transfer along the old Cova road to Cuculi. Lunch with a local family and hike through the Ribeira Grande valley with its sugar cane and vegetable plantations to the village of Caibros, where a local family will be waiting to welcome you.

Ascent +: 310 metres
Difference in altitude - : 400 metres

Distance: 5 km

Type of accommodation: Family accommodation with private bathroom

After breakfast, with your local guide, you will begin a hike through the valleys of Boca ambas as Ribeiras and Mocho with magnificent panoramic views, this hike will take you to the highest point of the valley, then you will visit the village of Mocho and taste traditional Cape Verdean cuisine with a local family, end of the tour in Cha de Igreja.

Ascent +: 460 metres
Difference in altitude - : 950 metres

Distance: 9 km

Type of accommodation: Family accommodation with private bathroom

In the morning, we'll start the walk in the village of cha de Igreja, passing through the fishing village of cruzinha and then taking the path paved with basalt stones that will take us along the coastal paths, always looking out over the emensivity of the Atlantic and the volcanic rocks and a soft breeze on the face.

and a soft breeze on the face, this path takes us through the fountainshas with colourful houses set into the rock. The walk takes you through the tourist village of Ponta do Sol.

Difference in altitude: 850 metres

Distance: 17 km

Type of accommodation: Hotel ****

Today you will discover the greenest valley in Santo Antão, with lush green valleys, mountains and hills, plantations of bananas, apple, orange and mango trees, and other fruits and vegetables. You will be invited to stay with a local family for a traditional valley lunch. At the end of the tour, a transfer will take you to the real high point of the island. At the end, you'll catch your ferry back to Mindelo.

Ascent +: 160 metres
Difference in altitude - : 460 metres

Distance: 5 km

Type of accommodation: guest house.

Enjoy a free day at Laginha beach or a stroll through the city centre.

Type of accommodation : guest house.

Transfer to airport.