Full-day tour - Salt Mine, Blue Eye, Shark Watch and Kite Beach
Description
Book a trip with 100% security, and explore the best of Sal island in 1 day. Improves your health and rejuvenate yourself in the salty waters of the saline. Discover one of the best kite beaches in the world and taste the best of local cuisine all that with the best professionals on this island.
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Itinerary
Kite Beach It is one of the best places in the world to practice kite surfing (from October to April) and is usually chosen to hold the world kite surfing championships.
Lemon sharks Bay It is a magic place where lemon sharks swim in the shallower waters. Their fins stand firm, cutting through the water. You will catch a glimpse of their sleek, grey bodies gliding along below the surface through a break in the waves. You can decide to see from afar or even go into the water to see the animals up close.
Miragem There is sand as long as you can see and flat land except for the brown mountains, the best place to make creative photos that last forever, the scenery is just breathtaking and you can feel the nature and the African breeze so close. The surroundings are basically an illusion in the desert. This is a true experience on Sal Island.
The salt mines In a moon-like crater of an old volcano, seawater turns into salt. The white and bright pink salt pans contrast with the snow-white salt mountains and the blue sky. You can also float in the medicinal salt water of the salt pans. For even more relaxation there are also scrub and mud treatments.
Palmeira Village Palmeira is the village of the fishermen, where you can find the typical colorful Capeverdean houses and can still feel the real Capeverdean vibes. Here, you can also find the main port of Sal. There are some traditional restaurants with delicious fresh fish to taste.
Buracona the Blue Eye The Blue Eye is a cave 24 meters deep that is connected to the ocean. When the sun reaches the center of the sky, the sunlight illuminates the sandy bottom of the cave that gives visitors an amazing reflection that resembles a Blue Eye. A natural swimming pool resides adjacent to the Blue Eye.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
The pick up service goes from 8:45 to 9:15, so please wait at the reception until we get into your accommodation
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Don't forget to bring cash for the entrances and for lunch
Reviews(29)
Enjoyed the whole trip especially the salt mines swimming. Our guide, Kevin, was informative and easy going. He always made sure we were taken care of whether it was at the lunch restaurant, shark walk or whatever. Kudos to him.
Nice day trip with interesting places of Sal Island, the lemon shark experience and the floating in the salt mine lake being the top ones!
We made the exit on a pickup outside wind, sun, dust My wife is 68 and I'm 66, having trouble getting on the pickup scandalous I couldn't refuse because I was leaving the island the next day
It was a good excursion, but very slow in my opinion. The guide was great, but I think the amount of time in each place is way too long.
We made this half-day excursion with this Enterprise and we did not regret a little bit, it gave us to see everything that the Salt has of the most touristic, we went to Murdeira, we passed the Rocca do leão, we went to Buracona to see the blue eye and what a beautiful natural phenomenon. Very tall and a little scary, but it's take a picture and it's already! We went to the city of Palmeira to know the locals and their customs, we went to see how they arranged the fish. Then we went to the salines and whoever wanted could float there, no one drowns! The water has 25% more salt than the sea water so it never let you go to the bottom, we didn't go because we didn't take bikini, but it was full! We ended up at the hotel, but we passed through the mirage. A frightening phenomenon, it seems that the sky is the earth are one and, apparently, if we walk there, we walk in circles, we never return to the same place. We went in a super fixed jeep, with 2 super quiet local tour guides who were explaining the whole trip to us. A love of people. We would definitely repeat. Bring sunscreen, hat and plenty of water. Take money for souvenirs and your phone to take lots of photos. Things we don't see every day and sometimes things that only happen once in a while, like a sea turtle passing by in the blue eye! Beautiful
When I made the reservation I was informed that it was a jeep.e 8 people, and I went in a cart with 10 people plus two babies! A disappointment!
Prezado Cliente Muito obrigado pela sua partilha, estamos gratos que tiveste um ótimo tour com o nosso melhor guia, sobre o tipo de transporte utilizado, todos os nossos transportes estão bem equipados para excursão, devido a previsao de chuva optamos escolher um caro fechado, lamentamos o facto de terem as duas crianças a bordo neste dia, que pelo facto segundo a informação do guia se comportaram muito bem. Caso não estejas satisfeito podemos ainda fazer um reembolso do valor pago.
Visit of the saltworks very large not bad seen from above , a lot of wind I recommend this visit for their culture! Nice experience
I think this could have been a much more enjoyable tour if we had a different guide. Our tour guide seemed a bit irritable and even rushed us around the entire day. He gave us very little information about the history of the island, and he did not speak English well, making it hard to understand where we were going or what location we were arriving at. He also messed up my wife's lunch order and then proceeded to become frustrated at her and was very rude to her and the rest of my group when we corrected him. Honestly, it was a bummer because many of the sites were very beautiful and you truly get to see the entire island on this tour. Also, you may have to ride on the back of a pickup truck, which is a neat experience but extremely dusty and windy on different parts of the island. Overall, for an island whose motto is "No Stress," our guide could have used this advice.
Dear Christian I thank you for your sincerely review, and as a owner of this company I would like to apologize, as a consequence of this experience we will refund you the entire amount paid in your account in 2 days. Thank you and we wish you all the best here in Sal.
My advice to anyone going on this is to remember to take a jacket! We were expecting a minibus to turn up for us and ended up on the open back of a pick up truck! The trip itself was good, however we didn’t get to see blue-eye as sea was too rough on the day we went. Really enjoyed the Sharks though. Our guide was lovely and as they say, No Stress!
Buracona and Salinas were amazing. Shark watching was pretty remarkable as well! Marino and Manuel did some top guiding!
