Sunday, February 16, 2014

Cape Verde

Carneval


There is a carneval every year in Cape Verde. Although the carneval is in March the people in Mindelo go to the streets every Sunday during February to play drums and dance. Different groups from the city are preparing for the competition of the carneval every night for one month.







Santa Luzia



We went to the island of Santa Luzia to fish and we spent one night in a kind of temporary fishermen village. There is nobody living on the island and there was nobody in the village at that time.



You can see our boat in the background. In the foreground one of the fishermen houses.



Boat Hitchhikers

Somewhere on the island of Sao Vincente escaping our boats for a while.







Sao Antao

I have just same back from a trip to the island of Sao Antao. It is totaly different than the two other islands that I have seen. It is green and there is a lot of agriculture. The people grow sugar cane for grogue, papayas, banana and vegetables here. There are beautiful valleys where most of the people live. The only way how to get to some villages is to hike very steep hills. When we got to the top of one mountain I felt like if I teleported to the Czech republic. The forest there in 1400 meters above the sea level looked exactly the same as in my country. There it was very cold and foggy and rainy and when we met a girl in flipflops there going to climb down to her village from where we had just climbed up with a lot of suffering in our hiking shoes I realized how spoiled city children we are.





Papaya

Fontanas












Morning in the house where we spent the night in the mountains.



Thursday, February 6, 2014

Some pictures from sailing to Cape Verde and from Mindelo. The pictures does not say anything about the journey. I was taking out the camera only when the weather was good and when there was nothing happening. Taking pictures while repairing an engine on a swinging boat is hard. I will try better the next part of  the journey. I have to go, they are closing the internet cafe.