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Cape Verde
Fly to Mindelo on São Vicente via Lisbon, then the hour's ferry across a channel that means it.
Village guesthouses along the valley trails — dinner is whatever the terraces grew.
An Atlantic island of knife-edge ridges and hand-built cobbled paths connecting villages no road reaches, grogue rum distilled in the ravines, and Creole morna drifting up from Mindelo.
Walk the Vale do Paúl from the crater rim to the sea — one of the great day hikes anywhere.
November to June
Tudo dret — all good, in Kriolu.
The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo by Germano Almeida — Cape Verde's great comic novel.
Mindelo itself — Cesária Évora's hometown, live music every night of the week.
The ferry crossing is famously rough — take it on an empty stomach and sit low.