Riu Touareg - Boa Vista
Discussion
The whole island is a dust bowl. Its completely barren and there is not a huge amount to do which will hopefully force me to relax a bit.
Mrs p wants to see the large turtle population and i fancy a quad safari so that gives us something to do.
The thing is, we were looking for a last minute break and looked at the greek islands, cyprus etc and the cost for flights and a basic hotel with B&B was very high for what you get (£600 each for flights to greece) so thought sod it, we'll look a bit further afield and paid less for a weeks all inc here in a relatively new resort for less.
I know all of these supposed 5* resorts look the same wherever you are in the world so ithey can be a bit impersonal but i just need a break.
We looked at marsa alam in egypt again but it seems to be suffering from the russian invasion like the rest of the country so i'm staying away from there which is a shame.
Will be buying a new camera for the trip so will keep this thread updated.
The google earth images of Boa Vista are certainly interesting - one large resort, one town and a few hundred miles of deserted coastline.
Wonder if i can hire a jeep?
Mrs p wants to see the large turtle population and i fancy a quad safari so that gives us something to do.
The thing is, we were looking for a last minute break and looked at the greek islands, cyprus etc and the cost for flights and a basic hotel with B&B was very high for what you get (£600 each for flights to greece) so thought sod it, we'll look a bit further afield and paid less for a weeks all inc here in a relatively new resort for less.
I know all of these supposed 5* resorts look the same wherever you are in the world so ithey can be a bit impersonal but i just need a break.
We looked at marsa alam in egypt again but it seems to be suffering from the russian invasion like the rest of the country so i'm staying away from there which is a shame.
Will be buying a new camera for the trip so will keep this thread updated.
The google earth images of Boa Vista are certainly interesting - one large resort, one town and a few hundred miles of deserted coastline.
Wonder if i can hire a jeep?
We went to Sal and stayed in the Riu Garopa.
Don't expect it will be much different to Boa Vista.
Hotel totally standard Riu, could be anywhere.
The location was nice, right by the beach. The sea is not good for swimming, waves were rather large.
Not much to do outside the hotel. For a week it was Ok. Would go crazy after 2.
Best part was a salt lake in an extinct volcano. Very strange and worth a visit if you can get a boat across.
Don't expect it will be much different to Boa Vista.
Hotel totally standard Riu, could be anywhere.
The location was nice, right by the beach. The sea is not good for swimming, waves were rather large.
Not much to do outside the hotel. For a week it was Ok. Would go crazy after 2.
Best part was a salt lake in an extinct volcano. Very strange and worth a visit if you can get a boat across.
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