“Fascinating market experience”
Assomada Market (Assomada, Cape Verde): Tours & Tickets
- Africa
- Cape Verde
- Santiago
- Assomada
- Things to do in Assomada
- Assomada Market
How much you like it will depend on how you feel about crowds and, if you go to the meat section, the blood and dead animals all around, but otherwise this is an interesting place for the hustle and bustle and for the more mainland African feel of the place. Remember that if you…
the colors, the noises, the smells, the location: it all adds up to the experience of visiting this local market, that offers veggies, fish, wood, meat etc etc. On a Wednesday or Saturday the whole of Assomada is turned into a market.
Stopped here during our island tour specifically to visit the market. It opens on Wednesdays and Saturdays, we went on a Saturday. It it a bustling interesting place with a two storey indoor part and large outdoor area around the outside of the building. Here you seem to be…
We went to this market on wednesday with high expectations. But our trip became a huge dissapointment. The market has changed to a furniture market. Only one or two stalls with fruits and vegetables are left. Because we thought we might have made a mistake we also visited the…
Just two Miles from Assomado there’s Boa Entrada, with a 500 year old extremely large tree. We only knew, because our taxidriver wanted to show us. He takes you across the whole island by the way and is one of the few native taxidrivers that talks in English. Number Louis: 00…
