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Hotel Riu Palace Santa Maria
A beachfront resort at Santa Maria with 24 hour all inclusive, a water park and a kids' club.
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SID · Cape Verde
Sal
Cape Verde's beach island, with warm sunshine and long white sands.
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About Sal
In short
- Santa Maria beach and pier
- Pedra de Lume salt lake
- Buracona blue eye
- Kitesurfing
- Turtle watching in season
At a glance
- Country
- Cape Verde
- Region
- Africa
- Local time
- GMT-1
- Time difference
- 7 hours behind Dhaka
- Currency
- Cape Verdean Escudo (CVE)
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Main airport
- SIDAmílcar Cabral International Airport
- Flight time
- About 6 hoursFrom London
- Best time to visit
- October to June
- Deals
- 6 deals
Sal is the most visited island of Cape Verde, in the Atlantic off West Africa. Most hotels sit around Santa Maria, a former fishing town with a pier where the catch is still landed each day, and a long beach of soft white sand.
The steady trade winds make Sal a favourite for kitesurfing and windsurfing. You can float in the salt pans of Pedra de Lume inside an old volcanic crater, and see the light in the Buracona blue eye pool.
Sal has sunshine for most of the year, and it is only an hour behind the UK in winter.
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