Cape Verde

A sheltered bay on Santiago's eastern coast, famous as the setting of Cesária Évora's music video and the annual Baía das Gatas music festival, with calm clear waters surrounded by volcanic hills.

The crumbling stone ruins of Cabo Verde's first European settlement, founded in 1462 on Santiago's southern coast, are a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the oldest surviving colonial town in the tropics.

A dramatically perched village of white-plastered houses on Santo Antão's northeastern cliffs, accessible by a vertiginous mountain road that threads between cloud forest and Atlantic cliff-edge, with direct views to the sea far below.

West Africa's most active volcano rises 2,829 m from a 4.6-km caldera on Fogo island, with a marked trail to the crater rim and a village living inside the crater floor.

Salt evaporation ponds set inside a volcanic crater on Sal's eastern shore, where salt has been extracted since the eighteenth century and visitors can float in hypersaline water as buoyant as the Dead Sea.

Five kilometres of pale sand and translucent turquoise water on Sal's southern tip, Santa Maria is the centre of Cabo Verde's beach tourism and a world-renowned windsurfing and kitesurfing destination.