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Airport pick and transfer to hotel
Welcome dinner and presentation of itinerary
Accommodation: Capital hotel with swimming pool – 3* or 4* hotel
Visit of Diogo Vaz Plantation
The Plantation Diogo Vaz is a historic plantation on São Tomé and Príncipe. A “Roça” located in a unique landscape between the volcano “Pico de São Tomé” and the Atlantic Ocean. The Roça was founded in 1880.
Traditional lunch at Roça Monte Forte
Hotel in the Capital
Hike to Amelia Lagoon (3 to 4 hours)
Level: moderate (can be slippery after the rain)
Note: bring hiking shoes or boots, extra shirt and light raincoat.
Altitude of departure: 1100 m; Highest point: 1460 m
Cumulated denivelation: about 500 m (we have to go down in the crater…)
Lunch at Almada Negreiros museum restaurant semi-gastro
Visit of Roça Monte Café and museum of coffee.
Continue the tour to Morro Peixe to see and observe the Tatoo programme and consequently watch the release of hatchlings (subject to availability) patrolling the beach. Search for nesting turtles.
Continue the excursion to Morro Peixe to watch the turtles nesting.
Dinner between 20:00 and 21:00 – traditional dinner at the Dona Tété house/restaurant – included in the excursion.
Return to the hotel
When taking part in night activities, we invite you to bring a red torch light (can be downloaded as a phone app), mosquito repellent, mineral water, and to wear comfortable shoes, long sleeves shirt and dark clothes.
Sight seeing
Drive along the East coast in direction of Porto Alegre and get ready for a drive, in luxurious areas, with many short stops at historical and natural sites.
You will check the amazing Mouth of Hell, a natural curiosity coming out of oceanic volcanism activity. You may stop at Agua Izé plantation to visit the former hospital and the Cultural Center F.A.C.A. and enjoy a swim at Micondo beach, bordered with coconut and almond trees.
Half way south, you will stop at São João das Angolares for a delicate lunch menu at pensão Mionga, chef Nelito.
Then you will check out the Praia Pesqueira waterfall and you will stop in the middle of a palmtree plantation to take pictures of the famous Cão Grande (big dog peak) a 663-meter tall phonolitic chimney.
Hotel in Porto Alegre
Hotel check in and dinner (at the hotel, not included)
Boat transfer Rolas Island (turtledove island).
Visit of centre of the world landmark!
Once landed on this tiny 2,5 square kilometer island inhabited by a few hundred inhabitants and coconut plantations, you will take a short walk up to the “center of the world landmark”. There you are, longitude 0º and latitude 0º.
On the way to Coffee beach, you may walk in coconut plantations, discover many local wonders of nature (tattoo leaf, wedding tree, tooth brush leaf..), and enjoy a swim at Bateria beach, after checking its surprising geyser.
Fishermen lunch at coffee beach – Highly recommended!
Swim, relax, sunbathes
Transfer to hotel
Dinner at local family house (Suzanna) (taxi service included)
Early morning Mangrove tour
Hike “Homem da capa” around the southern beaches (Piscina, Jalé…)
Check out and transfer to São João das Angolares
Gastronomical lunch at roça São João das Angolares
Lunch at Praia Cabana
Chill, swim, relax.
Transfer to Roça São João das Angolares
18h30 Gastronomic dinner
Hotel in São João
Hotel check in
Free dinner (taxi service included)
Dolphin watching boat tour
Lunch at Blue Lagoon or Tamarindos beach Swim, relax, sunbathes
Snorkeling with local coach.
Transfer to hotel
Accommodation: Capital hotel with swimming pool
Visit of São Tomé city
Local fruit and fish market, central square, Cathedral, Presidential Palace…
Free lunch
Option: 15:00 or 16:30 Visit of Claudio Corallo workshop (15€ per person/min. 4 pax) (upon availability)
Transfer to hotel for last shower
Late check out
Free dinner (we can stop on a way at Jasmine Café.
The tour ends at the airport for check-in and security formalities and to board the flight to Lisbon.
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Group minimum 04
Rates:
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02 pax EUR1715 Per person
03-04 pax EUR1615 Per person
05-08 pax EUR1515 Per person
09-12pax EUR1445 Per person
Accommodation in Double/Twin rooms, increment 1 single room.
Note:
30% payment required on booking
Remaining payments can be done in 2 instalments with the final payment, 2 weeks before departure.
Cancellation fees apply – for further details see:
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Annual temperatures: 22º C – 32º C
Seasons: There are 2 seasons; the rainy season and the dry season, gravana.
Rainy seasons: March to May and again October – November
The rainy season does not mean constant rain, the showers are generally sudden and heavy, preparing for clear skies and the highest annual temperatures.
Do note that the global heating is changing this pattern.
Gravana (dry season): June to September.
The sky is usually dotted by small clouds. An almost constant southern breeze of 10-25 knots with moderate temperatures. Nights are cool and often there is light rain before sunrise.
In the Northern regions, rainy days number only 2-3 per week. Due to a hilly relief, the interior and the southern regions tend to have more rain.
Gravanita (dry season): December to February.
High probability of no rain, no wind and 25-30 degrees, a bit lower than during the rainy season.
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Dobra = 100 cêntimos. Notes are in denominations of Db50,000, 20,000, 10,000 and 5,000.
Coins are in denominations of Db20, 10, 5, 2 and 1.
There is no ATM machine working with VISA or MasterCard on the island!
Prefer to bring cash in EURO, CFA or USD.
The change rate with EURO is fixed: 24,5 dobras = 1 euro. Most local changers will give 25 dobras for 1 euro.
USD is accepted only if notes are new, and only 20, 50 and 100 USD (with variable change rate)
Only few hotels accept credit card and they usually have a preferential service for their clients (and do not always have enough cash).
It is possible to withdraw cash with credit card at BISTP bank (São Tomé International Bank) but it takes times (and is quite expensive).
Some local change Agents also offer the possibility to withdraw cash against bank transfer to their account based in Portugal (but this procedure may take one to two days!).
Tips recommended per client in a group (120 – 180 € per person, for the guide, 5-12€ per day)
Yellow fever:
A yellow fever vaccination certificate is required from travellers over 1 year of age arriving from countries with risk of yellow fever transmission and for travellers having transited more than 12 hours through the airport of a country with risk of yellow fever transmission. You will be required to show the yellow vaccination booklet upon arrival.
Malaria:
Due to international cooperation within the last past twenty years, Malaria has almost been eradicated from São Tomé. It is still lightly active in the poorest areas, where people live in wooden houses near rivers. Therefore there is very little chance that you be infected. Nevertheless, you should bring with you the Malaria medicine (Quartem or any other relevant medicine).
Malaria symptoms may vary upon people: headache, neck ache, toothache, dizziness, stomach ache, sore back muscles, feeling of vomiting. There are Health Centers in all cities, in case of suspicion, you should not wait to see a doctor.
Bicho:
If you walk bare feet, or with sandal in an area with pigs, it may happen that you get a little harmless worm in your foot. Local health center will remove it in a few minutes. In order to avoid any risk, local people rinse their feet with gasoline…
Urchins:
Since you are very likely to enjoy a bath in the ocean, we shall warn you about the presence of urchins at the entrance of quite a few beaches (Tamarindos, Cafe, Blue Lagoon etc..) Therefore, you should be careful where you step, and avoid unidentified black spot and rocks when enter in the water.