AFRICAN ADVENTURE
As a journalist specialising in the Caribbean, I’d never understood why Cape Verde is often called Africa’s Caribbean. Located 350 miles off the coast of Senegal in the Atlantic sea, it’s nowhere near the Caribbean Sea. So when I was invited to visit its most popular island, Sal, I jumped at the chance to find out why this destination is compared to my beloved West Indies.
Cape Verde is an archipelago of 10 islands strewn across 1,500 square miles of the Atlantic. With the best beaches and driest
