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Cape Verde Cruise
Mindelo, Fogo and the Creole island world in the middle of the Atlantic, with Ponant in expedition style.
Arrange a personal consultation for your Cape Verde cruiseThere are places that lie so far out they keep a time of their own. Cape Verde, some 600 kilometres off the coast of West Africa, is one such place. In the evening you sit in a small bar in Mindelo, someone plays a morna on the guitar, that melancholy song of the sea and of leaving. And all at once you understand why these islands never let anyone go again.
Cape Verde is an archipelago of ten islands in the middle of the Atlantic, shaped by volcanoes and the trade winds. It is a world of its own: Creole culture, African and Portuguese roots, music everywhere. Mindelo on São Vicente is regarded as the islands' secret cultural capital, with its harbour, its carnival and the voice of Cesária Évora, who was at home here. On Fogo the vines grow at the foot of a still-active volcano, whose black crater forms a lunar landscape. Boa Vista and Maio carry long, pale beaches, São Nicolau its green mountains.
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Because the islands lie far apart and are barely linked by roads, the small ship is the natural way to travel among them. Ponant sails Cape Verde in expedition style with small, high-quality ships that reach remote anchorages and bring their guests ashore by Zodiac where there is no pier. The voyages last around a week. The season falls in autumn, when the climate is mild and settled.
Why ivent-sailing
Why book with ivent-sailing
We book these voyages at no surcharge over the cruise line, yet advise you independently. With a destination as special and refined as this one in particular, we tell you honestly who a Cape Verde expedition is worth it for.
Fair prices
You pay not a single euro more than with the cruise line. We have agreed a commission with our partners.
Independent advice
We recommend the voyage that suits you, because we have no ship of our own to fill. In our consultation we can go into the small differences that make the experience yours.
Travel-security certificate under German law
With us you receive a travel-security certificate and book with insolvency and consumer protection under German travel law.
All-round package
If you wish, we arrange the whole experience including travel there and back.
At their most beautiful under sail
Under sail
Those who truly want to feel the trade winds travel under sail: the tall ship Oosterschelde cruises Cape Verde as a classic sailing voyage, close to the water and to the rhythm of the Atlantic. A more original, more active way to experience these islands.
More in our sailing world: Sailing Cape Verde.
Our voyages
Current Cape Verde cruises
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Personal advice
Tell us what you dream of
Which ship, which route, which season, we settle that best in conversation. Without obligation and free of charge, and you book secured by the travel-security certificate under German law.
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Kristina Karg
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