Itinerary

1. 4 Hours Sal Island Experience

   • Visit Salinas de Pedra de Lume, located on the northeastern coast of Sal Island, overlooking the sea, in a landscape of remarkable beauty.
   • Learn how the Salinas sit inside the crater of an ancient volcano and discover that the name of the island comes from the salt of Pedra de Lume.
   • Hear how natural channels once connected the crater with the sea, creating deposits of rock salt estimated at more than fifty million tons.
   • See the old salt mine that now receives many visitors who come to enjoy floating baths and spa style salty pools.
   • Travel to Shark Bay, located a few kilometres south of Pedra de Lume, famous for its rocky beach and long shallow waters.
   • Understand why this area is an ideal nursery for lemon sharks that spend their first years protected from deep water predators.
   • Learn that baby lemon sharks are harmless to humans and that visitors can safely enter the water to observe them closely.
   • Receive advice to wear suitable footwear because the seabed is rocky, slippery, and full of sea urchins, and flip flops do not work.
   • Discover that it is possible to rent suitable shoes and that local guides sometimes attract sharks using fresh fish entrails.
   • Continue to Buracona, on the northwest coast of Sal, known as the Blue Eye, where sunlight creates a brilliant blue reflection inside a cave.
   • See how seawater enters the cave through a natural tunnel and learn that the best viewing time is usually between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in summer.
   • Learn that divers can enter the sea through an underwater tunnel when conditions allow.
   • Visit Miragem Fatamorgana at Terra Boa, where shimmering illusions appear like lakes across the desert plains.
   • Discover that Terra Boa lies north of Sal, near Espargos, with vast barren sand and distant mountains such as Monte Grande.
   • Learn that despite its desert appearance, the area historically contained rare moist ground that once supported small patches of agriculture.
   • Explore Murdeira Bay Nature Reserve, located between Rabo de Junco peak and Rife point, protected for its rich underwater ecosystems.
   • Discover nesting areas for turtles, habitats for rare seabirds such as terns and red tailed tropicbirds, and the seasonal presence of whales.
   • Understand how the Terrestrial Buffer Zone controls coastal impact and protects the entire coastline of the bay.