Mint-tea Time

Last few photos are from the second half of our trip when we went to the local docks. It smelled like salt and fish, and there were annoying Senegalese everywhere... x_X forcing us to buy at least something. Ugh.

The second trip was to the edge of the local slum... it stank really awfully. Exactly like a place that has no sewer system. We were told, that the people have a certain spot inside their dwellings, which is used as toilet. How sad is that? The children were happy, though. So keen for the tourists with a prospect of something sweet to eat, although we have been warned right before the entrance to not to do that. 

Day 110: Collect shells on a beach. 

Right after our clapping games we hopped back on the truck and drove to the renown shore with a shipwrecked ship called Santa Maria. It became one of the most significant symbols of the islands of Cape Verde and mainly of Boa Vista. The truth is, the ship is not as old as it might appear. It is the work of the salt and waves, that made it look really old, although it shipwrecked forty years ago if I remember it correctly.

Day 134: Go on a photography adventure.

Our first trip was to the little village next to the airport where the manufacture of a ceramic was located.  These few buildings were left there by the builders of the hotel complexes and the airport. Throughout few years they became inhabited by immigrants from Senegal or the locals from the islands of Cape Verde.

Day 220: Sip on a poolside beer.

The hotel complex of Karamboa was almost the same. A bit prettier and smaller, though. There were no cockroaches and there was huge sandy beach. With waves, that could be easily handled. So we were actually swimming after all, not just trying not to drown. :P

We got a room which was exactly the same, except for one missing sink and we could finally unpack our suitcases! And had to wake up really early to catch at least some sunbeds, because everyone was gathered on the beach, not scared of the sea anymore.

Day 148: Put your feet in the ocean.

AFRICA

My first time there. It wasn't what I was expecting. It wasn't hot and it wasn't as sunny as you are used to see in movies. The sun set at five o'clock and most of the time it was kinda cloudy. Not every day, but still, the sky wasn't clear the whole time.

It was also the first time in my life, that I had been in two hotel complexes throughout the holiday. The Touareg was the first one, from which are these photos. There were little problems, like a cockroach on the terrace, the room at the farthest end of the hotel or huge waves where I sank my awesome sunglasses :( anyway, these were the problems we could live with, but when you have the opportunity for a change, you would be stupid not to take it. 

So after three days we moved to the second hotel in the bay on the other side of the island. Which will be a part II., 'cause I have SO MANY photos.