Tourist destinations:
You can’t absolutely miss are the “saline” in the area of Pedra do Lume which are inside an ancient inactive volcano; here you can have a swim in natural salt water swimming pools feel the exciting emotion of reading your newspaper while you are floating; or like in Abano spas, you can have mud baths and talasso theraphy treatments free.
If you want professional massage treatments and also mud baths beauty care staff is at your disposal today in a little furniture situated inside the saline.
Another destination not to be missed is represented by the natural Buracona
Swimming pools where the sea water becomes tinged with an extraordinary blue colour as a consequence of a play of light. Finally you must absolutely see the fantastic sand dunes descended directly in to the sea and where every year a world windsurf championship stage takes place.
Restaurants are every where, you can enjoy a complete meal at a reasonable price. Cooked with fresh fish that has been bought from the fishermen just back from their daily fishing. The most delicious dishes are “carpacci” of sail fish, tuna fish, marly and shark. Grilled red grouper lobster, craw fish, cuttlefish and the superb parrot fish are other island specialities in typical “Capo Verde” restaurants, you can also taste traditional dishes such as the”caciupa”
Sports mostly practised in Capo Verde are surf and windsurf the best part of the island where you can see and practice these sports activity in the Ponta Preta beach situated in the north west. Sky surf a new spectacular sport activity that has been recently practiced also in Capo Verde consists in making air and water evolutions with help of a sail. You can also rent a scuba diver equipment to explore the ocean beds.