A cloud spills over the rim of the Cova crater on Santo Antão.
Tayani, eight, in Cabo da Ribeira in the Paul valley.
The last colours of the day over the mountains on the horizon, with the lights of a settlement on São Vicente below.
Emmanuelle Radzynski leans against the wavy, layered rock face at Carbeirinho on São Nicolau, black sand at her feet.
Língua-de-vaca, cow’s tongue, is the name of this viper’s bugloss on Monte Gordo. The plant is found only in Cape Verde and is considered endangered.
Ten metres tall: Cesária Évora, carved into a house wall in Mindelo by the Portuguese street artist Vhils in 2019. The singer was born in the city in 1941.
A lone house below the massif above Fajã.
Luis Baptista in his workshop in Mindelo, among clamps and guitar bodies. He learnt the craft from his father, Mestre Baptista.
Bare brown volcanic mountains in the last light on the coast of São Nicolau.
Sculptures, a table-football table and a mural spelling ‘Mindel’: a square in Mindelo on São Vicente.
Dragon trees on a rocky ridge above Fajã. The largest stands of dragon trees in Cape Verde grow here.
A skink on a rock beside the path from Fajã. There are no snakes on the islands, but there are endemic geckos and skinks.
Hikers on the stone-built path down to Ribeira da Prata.
A view into a green valley west of Ribeira Brava.
Mossy trunks in the mist on Monte Gordo. The summit rises to 1,312 metres.
Climbing the bare slope to the crater rim at Pedra de Lume on Sal.
Salt pans in the crater at Pedra de Lume. Until 1887 salt went from here mainly to Brazil.
Hikers on the path from the Cova crater to the Paul valley. A blanket of cloud fills the whole valley.
A plant of the stonecrop family in flower on Monte Gordo. The nature park is home to 28 plant species that exist only in Cape Verde.
On the path from the Cova crater to the Paul valley. Clouds rise from below.
Arlindo Rodrigues in the Dona Adélia distillery in Ribeira da Torre. By law, grogue may be distilled only from sugar cane.
The group at the start of the coastal path from Cruzinha to Ponta do Sol – below sheer cliffs, above the surf.
A young donkey with a rope halter beside the path into the Paul valley.
Two hikers on the coastal path of Santo Antão, the mountain village of Fontainhas opposite.
On the beach at Tarrafal de Monte Trigo, Leo proudly holds up the spiny lobster he has caught.
A hiker at a hairpin bend above the Paul valley.
Davide Munari descends the coastal path over rough paving, with terraced fields between sheer cliffs behind him.
Stone-built and paved, the coastal path curves around a basalt cliff.
Ponta do Sol, the end of the coastal path: everyday life on the square above the sea.
