Assomada lies at 550 m elevation on a plateau in the centre of the island of Santiago amidst a picturesque mountain scenery. Therefore, the climate is cooler and thus more pleasant than in muggy Praia, and the surrounding landscape is characterized by farmland as well as the nearby mountains of Serra Malagueta in the background. […]
Schlagwort: travel
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 […]
Praia
With approximately around 160.000 or even more inhabitants, Cape Verde´s capital Praia is by far the biggest city not only on the island of Santiago, but in the whole country. It might look like some Peruvian or Bolivian city in the Andes, but it is not – unfortunately. Then it wouldn´t be so bloody hot […]
Chobe National Park
Chobe River floats through northern Botswana and marks the border to Zambezi Region (hist.: Caprivi Strip) in Namibia as well as with Zambia before flowing into Zambezi River at the quadripoint of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe at Kazungula. It´s born in the highland of Angola under the name Cuando, and from there it meanders […]
Kafue National Park
Kafue National Park is a protected area of many superlatives. With a size of 22.480 km2, it is not only the largest National Park in the country but also one of the largest worldwide and more than half the size of Switzerland. Furthermore, it is the first National Park in Zambia, founded in 1950, but […]
Lake Kariba & Siavonga
Deep in the south of Zambia, Lake Kariba is situated as a result of staunching Zambezi River just downstream Victoria Falls. In 1958, the dam was finished, and the impounding of water in the lake commenced. Official opening took place in 1960, carried out by Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mum. It is not quite 100 […]
A Baobab forest – Im Baobab-Wald
On the way from Lusaka to Lake Kariba in southern Zambia, after you passed the city of Kafue, a well-developed industrial centre with huge textile producing and chemical ventures, the road is all beautiful serpentines down the Zambezi escarpment. The road goes on to the border with Zimbabwe at the border town of Chirundu, but […]
Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park
Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park is Zambia´s smallest National Park with a size of only 66 km2. It is nestled between Livingstone and Zambezi River upstream of Victoria Falls which are also part of the park. The landscape is stunning with lush vegetation, rolling hills and the majestic stream as a background. Because being situated at a […]
At Lilayi – Im Lilayi
South of Lusaka, Lilayi Lodge is set in the middle of the eponymous, privately managed and 650-hectare large Game Reserve with more than 25 different species of mammals as well as more than 300 species of birds. Part of the reserve has been the Lilayi Elephant Orphanage, where young elephant orphans are prepared to enter […]
Daraina & Loky Manambato
When we finally reached the edge of the dry deciduous forest, Amidou, our guide and somehow lonesome manager of Loky Manambato Protected Area, and his two friends, the Aye-Aye trackers, had already spotted the first group of Golden-crowned sifakas or Tattersall’s sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli) up in the branches of a grove of trees. We followed […]
