The Cape Verde island of Santo Antão is so wild, green and mountainous that hiking is excellent here. Namely on the demanding paths of the locals.
Maybe it’s the sweaty ups and downs of the past two hours. But once you’ve arrived at Sónia’s, taken the few steps down to her bar terrace and only see blue because the sea and sky flow into one another in front of the cliffs, you quickly forget that there are at least two hours ahead of you – namely the more strenuous. For now, the only important thing is that Sónia Delgado has cold drinks and even chicken with fried and roasted vegetables. Cassava, sweet potatoes, pumpkin – everything is grown nearby. In the gardens of the locals, laid out on terraces. Because the northern half of the island of Santo Antão is so steep that you have to wrest flat surfaces from it. Erosion valleys cut deep, rugged rocks tower up – sometimes pointed, sometimes they look like the walls of a ruin. You can’t shake the feeling that anything you put on the island could roll away.