The lush, mountainous and isolated island of Brava, in the Sotavento or Leeward Islands 80 mi/130 km west of Praia, is one of our favorites. Its main town is tidy and beautiful Nova Sintra. The city is perched in the crater of an extinct volcano, and locals boast that it has the loveliest sunsets in the country.
Brava is the smallest of the inhabited islands of Cape Verde and is known as the "island of flowers." To get there, you'll either fly or take a rough ferry ride from Praia.
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