A few kilometres west of Tolagnaro lies vast lake Vinanibe which is rich in prawns and connected to the Indian ocean by a small channel. There is a small islet at the northern side where Vinanibe river enters the lake, and on the islet is the so-called Portuguese Fort, the oldest surviving building in Madagascar. […]
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Lokaro peninsula & Evatraha – Die Lokaro-Halbinsel & Evatraha
Evatraha is a beautiful, small coastal village at the north end of the vast bay starting at Tolagnaro peninsula. The best way to reach it is by boat via lake Lanirano north of Tolagnaro, from where one must cross the stunning mangrove landscape of the lake and its channels before passing the sluice leading to […]
Tolagnaro (Fort Dauphin)
Tolagnaro, also known by its French colonial name Fort Dauphin, is Madagascar´s southernmost city, built on a peninsula at the south-eastern tip of the island at the place of the former settlement Tholongar. After a brief visit of Portuguese castaways in the Antanosy region at the beginning of the 16th century, it has been the […]
Fajã de Água
If Fajã de Água wouldn´t already exist, I´m pretty sure some writer or film director would make it up. It resembles too much a dream or a fantasy, and it is too close to at least a million clichés we´ve been fed with through movies, advertisement and pulp literature, because it´s the place at the […]
Brava, the wild one – Brava, die Wilde
With only 64 km2,Brava is the smallest of the nine inhabited islands of the archipelago, an underwater stratovolcano that had been lifted to the surface over the course of thousands and thousands of years. There is no volcanic activity anymore, but clusters of minor earthquakes occur from time to time, a proof that there is […]
Nova Sintra
The capital of Brava Island is Nova Sintra, sitting about 500 metres above Furna down at the seashore. A winding road leads up to Nova Sintra which takes no more than ten or twelve minutes, but you come to a totally different world. Where Furna is hot, humid and rocky, Nova Sintra is green, humid, […]
Furna
Furna is a tiny settlement at the northeastern coast of Brava, facing Fogo, its bigger brother, but even though less than 1.000 people call Furna their home, it is an important place for Brava in general, because it is the only decent port on the island. Founded at some point in the first half of […]
São Filipe
São Filipe is the capital of the volcanic island of Fogo and behind Cidade Velha on Santiago the second oldest settlement in Cape Verde, founded in the 16th century. It is located on the west coast of the island with a small airport on the edge of town as well as the port Vale de […]
Salinas do Porto Inglês
Between Cidade do Maio and Morro, the 5 km long and 1.5 km wide saltpan is the most important feature of the island, because historically it had brought some wealth to Maio, at least for some time. A line of dunes separates the pan from the sea, and it is only at high tides that […]
Cidade do Maio (Cidade do Porto Ingles)
The capital of Maio is located at the southwestern tip of the island and has the only decent port. Some 3.000 or 4.000 people are living there, and all the island´s students attend high school in town. Maio had been discovered in 1460 but was of no further interest because of being barren and hostile. […]
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