Cabo Verde Trip - March 2026

We loved Fogo Island! As we left for the airport, we were still giddy about yesterday’s visit to the caldera.  One of the benefits of Fogo is that, with just 6000 people, everything is close by and takes very little time to get around. We had planned to pull out of the hotel lot at 7:10AM in order to arrive at the rental car location in the middle of town at 7:20. The rental car guy had agreed to run us to the airport then. All folded Exactly as planned. We arrived at the airport at 7:30, to find a crazy long check in line. We got through the line just after 8:00, passed through security, board the plane, and took off at 8:20!  We had a full three hours to pass at Praia’s airport before connecting to the Boa Vista flight. Again, everything went like clockwork and we landed at Boa on time at 12:30PM.  As the resort is a stone’s throw from the airport by taxi, we were checked before 1PM. Our room was even ready, which is a rarity at a resort like this, especially during pea...

Fogo is a sparsely populated island, with just 6000 people. It doesn’t have a lot of developed tourism infrastructure, compared to the other islands, so the number of tourists that come here is relatively small. Most people who do make the effort to visit Fogo are interested in tracking either around or to the summit of pico de Fogo, a massive volcano for which the island is named. One of the biggest drawing cards on the island, apart from trekking, is to visit the village, Cha da Calderas, which is located within the walls of the greater volcano. It is a village that was completely destroyed by the 2014–2015 eruption. Originally, we had planned to drive to the Caldera to see the village and to get a close-up view of the cone of the volcano. However, after driving around the Island yesterday, which was far from an easy drive, not only due to the cobblestones, but also do to the frequently scary heights of the highway, we had decided it would be too much to drive to the Caldera today. W...