Cidade Velha

In 1462, Antonio da Noli, an Italian seafarer exploring the Atlantic Ocean for the Portuguese, built a settlement at the exit auf Ribeira Grande, a beautiful valley at the south coast of the island of Santiago. This is the beginning of human history on the archipelago as the settlement started to flourish, being granted the […]

Chirundu Fossil Forest – Der fossile Wald von Chirundu

On the way from Lusaka to Chirundu in the Deep South of Zambia right at the border to Zimbabwe, just after the turn-off to Siavonga at Lake Kariba and 21 kilometres before Chirundu, the site of ancient remains of a fossil forest is located. Those trunks are 150 Million years old and have been announced […]