Easy life in Boavista! Holiday travel to Cape Verde

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On April 15, after 6 ½ hours of flight arrival in Livingstone Boavista 12.30 local time, from just outside Pier waiting for (the various proposals received for a single fact decide to opt for the "B & B cryolite" not only because it is directly located on the beach at 20 m. from the sea 200 meters or so from the town center, but also because to manage and Pier Giorgio Scaramelli a great runner of marathons in the desert that are held all over the world and now by 9 years organizer and president of Ultramarathon (www.boavistaultramarathon.com)). During the short ride I explain that I'd like to see the island on foot and some by car, Pier proves just look forward to. Arrive at your B & B and find exactly what I expected, a pretty little house on the shore of a sea blue turquoise, where Peter has arranged two rooms with bath for tourists and furnishings ethnic style fit and loves a holiday as a family and especially contact with the life of the village of Sal Rei.
The afternoon of Day 1 and Day 2 I dedicate them to rest on the beach to the "Tortuga," beautiful to walk on the white beach bordered by a turquoise sea and photograph the lives of local in Sal Rei, I plan with the Pier trekking we do to the idol from the 3rd day forward, he will guide me and go on the paths of Ultramarathon! Claudia also encounter a florentine woman who works in social and Boavista www.boavistadreams.com through the association tries to give a hand to the neediest of the place, especially children, because I thought even coming from Italy to bring a bag of school supplies for children, a gesture that costs little to us but they need much. In the evening I go to eat at the Blue Marlin restaurant in a central square where for 15 euros you can eat fish of any kind!
The 3 day pass to finally take that Claudia is aggregated on us to begin the trek to the island. We entrust to the hands (or feet) experts Pier, we take a road that comes out of Sal Rei and along the sea till the Marine Club, the first thing we see here the graves of family members Ben Oliel, Jewish family Moroccan expelled from Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century it was established in Boavista, where he became the richest and most influential. We continue along a beautiful sea inlets until the church of Fatima, and then continue towards the beach of Boa Esperanca "where is the wreck of Santa Maria a freighter run aground in 1968 and increasingly" eroded "by sea, but offers a very impressive sight. This merchant also brought the newspapers (especially soap operas) that you can still see and read it still kept on the beach! We continue in a canyon, before heading for the forest Clotilde or what remains of what was once a lush forest of acacias and palms. We end with him emerge on the road "picturesque", which brings us back to Sal Rei is the first road about 8-9 miles. Boavista built with a kind of paving stones and built by all women. At about 18 we return home after 25 km on foot, so fatigue is also the satisfaction of seeing landscapes different. In the evening I decided to go to eat "Naida," a restaurant in the square of Sal Rei always maintained by bubbisti where a ten euro you can eat fish.
The 4th day we just me and Peter to go to the walk, prepared at all points we walk along the picturesque, and then we pass the "Ribeira", where there are palm trees, acacias, and a number of crops present at 7 baobabs' island, climb a staircase that runs alongside the town of Estancia de Baixo and undertake the crossing of the desert autochthonous "Viana", the cross width and then circumnavigate for several miles, defying a strong wind, but the landscape is really penalty. We pass from the center of Estancia de Baixo with its low houses of various pastel colors and a calm that seems almost as if time has stopped and then by Rabil's second largest town of the island where we stop to breathe. Resume from Rabil then to the beach "Chave" where there is an old factory for the production of bricks now in disuse in the chimney is still visible and the most beautiful beach of the island. We returned home along the beach very tired after about 30 km. walk. The evening is just fancy a good meal of fish to the Blue Marlin.
The 5th day we start with the car hire (46 euros) through the interior and some mountains (Rocha Estancia) at a time the country of "Provacao velha" where there is a beautiful white church and green at the foot of a mountain, rocky here we go first to the beach "Varandinha" (beautiful and deserted) and "Ponta Preta", then the most famous and one of the most beautiful in the world of "Santa Monica" or Curralinho, here we pause a little to see the shore white sand lapped by a turquoise and green. Then again by passing the abandoned fishing village of "Currall Velho and its beach, along Praia de Joao Barrosa" to the destination "Pico Estancia" the highest mountain (400 m) we decide to walk up to see the view from the island. Placed the car at the foot of the mountain forty minutes from pietraglia made strenuous (no paths) are at the top to enjoy the show, and then in the same time we go down to the valley and once again we take the car to the desert where Viana do some photos at sunset. At about 18.30 we are at home, a short rest and then dinner again from "Naida".
The 6th day's start with the machine at a time the country Bofareira el'ecolodge Espinguera, then visit the villages of the north "Joao Galego," Fundo das Figueras, "and" dos Cabeço Tafares, all three very nice, where low houses in order and with different colored pastel colors, blended with a discreet presence of greenery, colorful flowers, and a quiet sense of serenity that. A Cabeço dos Tafares leave the car and walk for about 40 minutes a canyon where you can see the peregrine falcon, red and blue dragonflies in stagnant water remaining from the wet season (August) and the end of this pond Freshwater Mar. Olhindo called back to the car and off again towards the now disused lighthouse of Morro Negro, we leave the car at the foot of the mountain and up the stairs up to the lighthouse where you can enjoy a spectacular view of east of the island, towards Africa. We go down and away again towards the shore of Ervatao where to go in October to lay eggs the turtles, an hour or we pause here and then take the road home through parts of the island not yet seen. The 7th is the last sunny day dedicated to rest on the beach and around the country for the last shopping before returning. In the evening we go to dinner at the Pier "Blue Marlin" where the least I can do is offer a good meal of fish for the hospitality and especially the availability lead me in every corner of the island of Boavista, to the delight of you could see all the different landscapes that this beautiful island offers to those who really want to know without closing all the time in a large resort. Thanks to Peter for everything and thanks to Boavista and his shy and people available. I can send photos and give