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Cape Verde: Various travel information

Arrival and travel on and between the islands

With a few exceptions, tourists come to Cape Verde (Cape Verde) by plane. An international airport is located in Sal and Praia. Cape Verde can best be approached from Frankfurt/Main. With the exception of the island of Sal, tourism in Cape Verde is still underdeveloped. The visitor has to be prepared for deficiencies in the infrastructure. One problem is the inadequate and not always reliable flight and ship connections between the nine inhabited islands of the archipelago.

Roads

The road network is not very extensive. Rental cars are available in the main islands. An international driver’s license is recommended. Public buses are inexpensive, if not always comfortable, to travel across the islands.

Ferry connections

Boats and ferries run between all islands. A new ferry service runs twice a week between Praia and the islands of Brava and Fogo.

Air connections

There are a number of airports in the Cape Verdian Islands. The airports on the island of Sal and in Praia are served by international airlines. A flight from Frankfurt, for example with Condor, takes around 6 hours. The others are used for air traffic within the island state. These are airfields on or in: Mindelo, Santo Antão, Sâo Nicolau, Boevista Maio and Togo.

International license plate

According to Abbreviationfinder, the Cape Verde license plate is:

Travel medicine, vaccinations and warnings

Infectious Diseases

In Cape Verde the following diseases are to be expected in Germany and Northern Europe:

HIV/AIDS
cholera
Dengue fever
various intestinal diseases such as worm infestation, salmonella, shigella, amoeba or lamblia
Typhoid, but only those who come into contact with contaminated food and drink
Zika virus infection, it is transmitted by mosquitoes and is extremely dangerous for unborn babies
Malaria. There is a risk of infection with tropical malaria in the capital Praia and on the island of São Tiago. The other islands are malaria free.

Vaccination recommendations

diphtheria
Hepatitis A and B
Influenze (flu vaccination)
Whooping cough (pertussis)
measles
mumps
Pneumococci
polio
rubella
tetanus
typhus

Compulsory vaccination

For all persons older than one year and coming from a yellow fever infection area designated by the WHO, there is a compulsory vaccination against an illness with yellow fever.

Otherwise there is no further compulsory yellow fever vaccination

for children

In most countries where a yellow fever vaccination is required, this also applies to children over one year of age, and in some countries even from six months. It should be noted that a vaccination against yellow fever had a number of side effects, such as encephalitis. Around two-thirds of those affected were children under six months. Therefore, under no circumstances should children under this age be vaccinated. But children under one year of age should also not be vaccinated if possible. If in doubt, yellow fever infection areas must then be avoided. Any vaccination against yellow fever may only be carried out in specially authorized yellow fever vaccination centers!

Cape Verde: currency

The local currency of Cape Verde is the Cape Verde Escudo (CVE) with a fixed exchange rate to the euro of:

110.265 CVE = 1 euro

Note

Incidentally, the national currency was pegged to the euro in 1999.

Current warnings

Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany

Citizens Service

Tel: 0049 – (0) 30 – 5000 – 2000

www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de

Cape Verde: Embassy, entry requirements

Embassy, Visa

Germans, Austrians and Swiss and visitors from numerous other countries need a visa to enter the Cape Verde Islands (Cape Verde). A valid yellow fever vaccination must be proven when entering from a yellow fever infection area (according to WHO).

Embassy of the Republic of Cape Verde

Stavanger Str.

10439 Berlin

Tel: 0049 (0) 30 – 20 45 09 55

Email: [email protected]

Cape Verde: Diplomatic missions

Visit Countryaah for a full list of Cape Verde embassies and consulates in each country around the world.

Representations of Cape Verde in Germany

The building in which the embassy of Cape Verde is located is a beautiful villa on Stavangerstrasse in the Berlin district of Pankow. The ambassador’s residence is also located next to it. The Stavangerstraße branches off from Gotenstraße, which in turn is a cross street with Bornholmerstraße. The embassy is in a quiet, bourgeois area of Pankow. The embassies of Cuba, Ghana, Eritrea, Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina are in the vicinity of the Cape Verde embassy.

Embassy of the Republic of Cape Verde in Berlin

Stavanger Str. 16

10439 Berlin

Tel: 0049 – (0) 30 – 2045 0955

Email: [email protected]

www.embassy-capeverde.de

Consulates

Region	Contact
Saxony, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia	Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Cape Verde in DresdenKoenigstraße 5 01097 Dresden Tel: 0049 – (0) 351 – 819 2700 Fax: 0049 – (0) 351 – 819 2699
Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate	Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Cape Verde in EschbornUnterortstrasse 30 65760 Eschborn Tel: 0049 – (0) 6196 – 777 5924 Fax: 0049 – (0) 6196 – 777 5922
Hamburg, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein	Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Cape Verde in HamburgDeichstraße 9 20459 Hamburg Tel: 0049 – (0) 40 – 3785 7833 Fax: 0049 – (0) 40 – 3785 7841 Email: [email protected]
Saarla	Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Cape Verde in SaarbrückenSaargemünder Straße 136 66119 Saarbrücken Tel: 0049 – (0) 681 – 398 098 Fax: 0049 – (0) 681 – 390 5060
Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria	Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Cape Verde in StuttgartAzenbergstrasse 31 70174 Stuttgart Tel: 0049 – (0) 711 – 607 1558 Fax: 0049 – (0) 711 – 6066 1050