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Fontainhas
A village worth the long drive · Ponta do Sol, Cabo Verde
Photo: Zinneke · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.8★Rating
235Reviews
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Nov–JunBest time
The experience
A hamlet of pastel houses stacked on a knife-edge ridge above the Atlantic, anchoring the famous coastal footpath to Cruzinha — National Geographic ranked its view among the most beautiful village views in the world.
Cabo Verde's tourism machine sells Sal and Boa Vista resorts; reaching Fontainhas takes a ferry plus a mountain road.
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It's only worth the detour Nov–Jun. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Ponta do Sol, Cabo Verde · Santo Antão. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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