With its year round climate, Cape Verde is an ideal holiday destination. On the same latitude as Barbados, it has a perfect tropical dry climate with very little rainfall. There is low humidity and a long dry season from November to July, equally there is no history of hurricanes. The average air temperature is 22-27C and the sea temperature is 21-26C, (3 degrees warmer round than the Canaries) with sunshine levels at 10 to 12 hours per day.
There is a good but expensive telecommunications infrastructure in Cape Verde which includes broadband. There is also a mobile network which has roaming agreements with most continental European carriers.
There are excellent private health clinics, dentistry clinics and pharmacies in Cape Verde.
Cape Verde location: Western Africa, group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Senegal. Cape Verde Area: 4033 km² Coastline: 963 km Currency: Cape Verdean escudo (CVE) Example 200.00CVE = 1.81€ Climate: Temperate; warm, dry. Natural Resources: fish, salt, basalt rock, limestone, kaolin, clay, gypsum Population: 418,224 (July 2005 est.) Age Structure: 0-14 years: 39% (male 82,249/female 80,752) 15-64 years:…
The Cape Verde islands benefit from white sandy beaches but also boasts volcanic peaks that rise dramatically to over 1,400 metres and then plunge into the deep blue Atlantic below. “The island is home to botanical gardens, and after the rains transforms into an extremely lush island paradise similar to Jamaica or St Lucia. Owing to…
The pure, warm water one hour south of the Canaries is home to Cape Verde, a very different group of ten largely undiscovered tropical islands. With a year round warm climate, hospitable people and a stable environment, this sleepy hide away offers an opportunity like no other to cut off from the real world. Rhododendrons,…