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Gorée is on the World Heritage list for one reason only: what happened there. The criteria line says so, and it is the whole argument.

No authority we can reach publishes accessibility information for Senegal. Here is what the general advice implies, and where it stops.

The first European colonial town in the tropics, a platform for the Atlantic slave trade, and where the first Creole society formed. All one place.

Cape Verde calls it the camp of slow death. It held prisoners from four countries of the Portuguese empire for more than thirty years.

People live on the floor of an active volcano with an eight kilometer caldera. In 2014 it erupted, and they are still there.

Salt pans worked inside an extinct volcano, fed by channels from the sea, on an island whose name is simply the Portuguese for salt.

Some experts call this the greatest center of plant biodiversity in the archipelago. It is also where the water is, which is the same story.

We publish no month-by-month table, because we could not source one. Here is what the year is organized around instead, island by island.

There is no visa, but there is a form you must complete five days before you fly. Miss it after 1 July 2026 and you pay double at the border.

The FCDO publishes no money page for Cape Verde. The money question here is really an insurance question, and the answer is unusually blunt.

This is not a malaria country, which changes the health kit completely. Pack instead for stomach upsets, mosquitoes and, on one island, altitude.

Ten islands, so every journey is a flight or a boat. On land it is the aluguer, and the FCDO has one blunt line about driving.

US Level 1, no recent history of terrorism, and a generally low crime rate. The thing most likely to hurt you here is the sea.

Cachupa is the national dish and it is built from what the islands could actually grow. It takes a long time on purpose.

Cape Verde has exactly one UNESCO-inscribed tradition, and it is a form of music about leaving. That turns out not to be a coincidence at all.