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Full Day Sal Island Tour in Santa Maria: Explore Local Beauty with a Native Guide
4.8
42 Ratings
Santa Maria
When you book a tour or other activity with me, you get to see all the beautiful places of Sal. I guarantee a fun and educational trip. I am from here so I can tell you all the ins and outs. It is not a problem to have mixed backgrounds with the tour because I speak many languages!
When you book a tour or other activity with me, you get to see all the beautiful places of Sal. I guarantee a fun and educational trip. I am from here so I can tell you all the ins and outs. It is not a problem to have mixed backgrounds with the tour because I speak many languages!
Duration:
7 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Santa Maria - The first stop is Santa Maria, the pier. This is where the fishing boats arrive at the pier in the morning. The fish are cleaned and sold on the pier. A beautiful scene to see. We drive through the local streets and go to the vegetable market. We end at kite beach.
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Murdeira - We visit the small village of Murdeira.
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- Santa Maria - The first stop is Santa Maria, the pier. This is where the fishing boats arrive at the pier in the morning. The fish are cleaned and sold on the pier. A beautiful scene to see. We drive through the local streets and go to the vegetable market. We end at kite beach.
- Murdeira - We visit the small village of Murdeira.
- Palmeira - We go to a school, there is time to shop for souvenirs and we see fishermen at work.
- Buracona: The Blue Eye of Cabo Verde Shop - During the tour we also stop at the blue eye. We take a look at the blue eye created by nature. There is also a lookout point where you can see the beautiful blue sea.
- Espargos - We will stop in the capital Espargos for a delicious lunch
- Pedra de Lume - We go to the Pedra de Luma salt mine. Here you can float in salt springs or hike the mountains around the mine.
- Feijoal - Sharkbay! We go to the bay where the lemon shark has settled. You walk a bit into the sea and can see the sharks swimming between your legs. How cool!
What's Included
- Private transportation
- Private transportation
What's Not Included
- Entry Fee at Buracona (€3)
- Lunch
- Entry Fee at Salinas (€5)
- Entry Fee at Buracona (€3)
- Lunch
- Entry Fee at Salinas (€5)
Location
Santa Maria
We meet in Santa Maria, Sal.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(42 Ratings)
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Rajni_p
Mar 26, 2025
Well worth every penny! Amazing experience! - Eddie was an amazing tour guide from start to finish this tour is worth every single penny. You can see the entire island in half a day with Eddie, he even took us to a great spot to see the Salt plains. Communication was 10/10 and I knew exactly where to go and what time. Very experienced and gave us local knowledge. Book this tour you will not regret it! I will never regret booking tours with local people!
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D1073fzannaa
Feb 12, 2025
Recommended island tour - The full-day tour of Sal Island was a great experience. Elvin took a lot of time and answered all of our questions. You get a good impression of life on Sal.
We also booked a tour to the Zip Line via Elvin and that worked out perfectly and was a great experience!
We can fully recommend Elvin and his team!
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Ilikecamargue
Feb 1, 2025
Tolle Sal Inseltour - As agreed in advance we were picked up on time at the hotel in the small air-conditioned bus.
Island tour (German language) took place in a small group, but to notice that Elvin also knows other languages and I could even talk to him in Luxembourgish.
Great information about the small island and free according to the motto “No Stress” Elvin took time to give everything the appropriate answers.
The course of the very interesting tour was also adjusted in time and the dawdling in the group (over an hour over) was accepted without comment.
We would definitely book without hesitation again with Elvin Alves.
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Aav247qt
Jan 27, 2025
Mamadou MTT - Hotel RIU Palace Santa Maria, really perfect
Excursion , around the island with Mamadou MTT, it was great .A good team that I recommend
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Mayaf476
Dec 23, 2024
Super tour on Sal with great people - It was a great tour of the island of Sal with great background knowledge, a super sympathetic guide because you could ask anything about the culture. Elvin himself is also super reliable and gives everything for his customers.
We additionally booked a JetSki tour at Elvin, which was then cancelled by the company and Elvin picked us up by taxi and drove us to another provider. Really cool action and super reliable.
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Chrisab9841gh
Oct 6, 2024
A beautiful family-friendly excursion - reliable and well-organised - A Customized Trip - My family had booked a German-speaking island tour with Elvin Tours. In the modern and air-conditioned minibus, the various stations were approached. Our guide spoke very good German. The tour was super organized and you received a lot of additional information about the island, its inhabitants and culture. We would definitely book again with Elvin Tours.
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Staffybull8
Jun 6, 2024
Best tour! - What can I say! Absolutely amazing! Took us to extra places than listed. His knowledge of the Island was phenomenal. His has such a love of his home country. We got a real feel for the island much better than a tour operator could have done. Nice small group of people. If you are thinking about just book it you won’t be disappointed for sure. He explained things very clearly which helped as I’m hard of hearing and didn’t struggle one bit.
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Quest800815
Jun 3, 2024
Everything was wonderful, thank you very much! - We booked a German-language island tour and a half-day sailing tour with Elvin Tours. He has small groups and is very trustworthy.
Everything was very well organized. We would book with him again.
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Nicbrad1967
May 4, 2024
Excellent day touring Sal - Our guide, Nani, (sorry if spelt wrong) was fantastic! We sat on outside of 4x4 and he made sure he slowed down along the way. He was knowledgable and very friendly. Saw the salt mines, mirage, Blue eye, we didn’t swim there but you could, went to Palmeira and then lunch in the capital. There was no rushing around and the guide gave us lots about the island history at each stop. Shark Bay was fun, watch out the rocks are slippy! Final stop was salt lakes which was great fun floating… even funnier watching people trying to stand up after to get out.
Really good day and thanks Nani
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Birgitlv2523wq
May 17, 2024
Full day Sal Island tour: disappointing!!! - The day trip to Sal was very difficult from the start. We were picked up from the hotel in an "aging minibus" without any comfort. You could feel every stone or pothole in your back immediately...ouch. We drove over gravel roads the whole time, and a small section of asphalt. We climbed rocky terrain above the slums of Espargos. That didn't have to happen, later we drove through the slums...totally unnecessary!!! The little that would have been really worth seeing was the black eye (waiting time over 1.5 hours). So we skipped it. The highlight of the trip were the baby sharks (but we had to get into the car with wet clothes afterwards) and the kite surfers. We went to the salt lake with wet clothes too. We only saw it from above. Everything else could have been done without. The restaurant where we had lunch...well...but the food was good.
The summary: This day trip was very disappointing!!! It's a shame, we were looking forward to it so much. We were in Boa Vista last year, so maybe we were spoiled...
Jürgen and Birgit
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