(Shocking) Santa Maria, Cape Verde in 2024

[@tarinideviyoga]

Santa Maria was my resident town for 7 years. I worked in tourism and later as a yoga teacher. I felt at home there. I am Croatian, from a coastal town (Adriatic Sea in the Southern Europe). I learned portugese and creole but I am able only to speak and read it and not write it. Saudade de Cabo Verde ❤

[@PhilippMa81]

I was there in November 2024 from 2nd to 16th. I Love this Island🥰

[@deescottlass]

Beautiful video! Just booked my vacation woop woop! 🙌

[@edwardmusa2201]

thank you for highlighting cape verde i am thinking of moving here , you have highlited alot about the culture

[@Carioca-77]

A ilha do Sal seria um ótimo local para um Parque Temático e a inclusão de monumentos para visitação turística. Isso aumentaria o número de turistas na região.

[@AT-gu8by]

The African diaspora need to visit the island more.

[@googlea2692]

@AT-gu8by Y’all and this African diaspora stuff lol history truly needs to be taught to black people

[@keilalouis2238]

No

[@yusefnegao]

So Afro Brazilian especially right?

[@NOLAPicasso]

I wholeheartedly agree @AT-gu8by.

[@Zanele-zz5mf]

To do what exactly? ,tell a country in Africa that is 100% independent and doing so well with good infrastructure, clean, no corruption and living peaceful

[@cosmichappening1712]

With the push back by Spanish and Portuguese locals against mass Tourism, Cape Verde may become an attractive alternative for many European holiday makers...

[@David_13N]

I was in this hotel about 2 weeks after this video. Really nice place to stay.

[@SubServ637]

Hi, my family migrated to the U.S. in the 1800s - 1950s, and they were from Brava. I'm rigging my 44-foot sailboat and plan to visit sometime next year. I'm also looking into getting dual citizenship. My family still owns property in Brava, and I look forward to watching more of your videos. I can still understand Kreolu but have lost my ability to speak it.

[@WillieFungo]

@@SubServ637 Fantastic! I wish you the best of luck

[@SocialNetArchitecks]

I'm about halfway through the video, but at the risk of being redundant, it'd be interesting to know where these people are from, why do they come there, and even get a locals perspective on these people?

[@seemo27]

I appreciate your videos. I visited Praia last month, staying a month. Long travels from California. Cheers 🍻

[@WillieFungo]

Cheers!

[@importedmusic]

Visited last year on a package holiday. The audible gasps from my fellow package holiday Brits when they departed the airport realising that Cape Verde wasn't exactly Benidorm was quite entertaining. Nonetheless the package holiday was great and Cape Verde well worth a visit. Can recommend.

[@fraolgudeta2877]

been watching your videos for quite sometime and i am a big fan of the quality of your content. the colour,the camera quality is really good. I really want to see you making similar contents in my country ethiopia.

[@kfckillie1]

Cheers for the post, was thinking of coming but thanks to you, you can stuff it

[@WillieFungo]

@@kfckillie1 Interesting. Why is that?

[@kfckillie1]

@@WillieFungo I am white done nobody no wrong and your post states " too many whites"

[@WillieFungo]

@@kfckillie1 No it doesn't. It says "So many white people"

[@kfckillie1]

@@WillieFungo so that's better is it, anyway was looking for winter sun won't be here

[@andygreen2775]

@@kfckillie1 Willie , sounds like the island is better of without this guy , not the brightest or friendliest fella I think. Such a wonderful place, been many times . No stress., nothing to do just wander and fish .

[@jzk2020]

It's a shame they have such a minor role to play in their own economy. The government should step in and a crash course in group economics, CO-OPs & entrepreneurship.... Then everyone they passes that 1-3 month course can band together and borrow government back loans for to establish CO-OP owned super markets, clubs, hotels, restaurants and transportation companies. Imagine 100 people come together and each borrows 5000 euros ... And they have to pay back just 50 euros per month over 10 years.... They'd have 500,000 euros to start a decent business.

[@ss2gora0]

Go over there and tell them that then..ideas guy

[@josepedrocruz8766]

The Hotel Odjo d'agua that you visited is Cape Verdean owned and the restaurant Americos is also Cape Verdean owned.

[@MyPrimeone]

Very nice great video When you going to Ghana

[@WillieFungo]

I'm not sure yet. But it's definately comming up!

[@Jblack142]

Nice video! A place to go to relax away from the hustle of life. Did not see much vendors and such like Cartegena selling everything from baubles to women. That is a relief not to see and have to be bothered with....

[@RichardGraham-l6f]

Look at the living conditions of the locals. The money that the tourists bring in, goes back out to Eurpoean, North American, Japanese investors!

[@WillieFungo]

The locals have a decent living condition.

[@edsoncota5129]

Here in Cape Verde there are practically no American or Japanese enterprises.

[@RichardGraham-l6f]

The video shows the locals living in shantys ​@@WillieFungo

[@faisalmohamedabdulla3600]

Other african business.

[@WillieFungo]

@@RichardGraham-l6f That's a very unusual slum called Santa Cruz where only a few families still live. They have already relocated most of those people to normal appartments. I will talk more about it in the Espargos video.

[@justhumblemeclarke7292]

36 bucks for lobster is inexpensive

[@deescottlass]

Wheeet!! It’s cheap compared to other places.

[@IronMountainx]

Its a cultural thing, the Europeans strive to build things including economic growth, its what has built the modern world we all know today. If it wasn't for Europeans and the industrial revolution, we would all still be eating monkeys and throwing spears at one another.

[@meseretgglove8093]

Stop fooling yourself , there were many many advanced civilisations throughout history in every part of the world .

[@Glimmertwin32]

That is the most ridiculous, ignorant comment I have seen in a long time…..laughable. Have you ever read any history? How about ancient Egypt…how about India to name two. These countries were so much more advanced than Europe. Now be a good boy and go and read to stop you embarrassing yourself on the internet

[@davonbooker2752]

BWAHAHHAAHAAHAAAAA!!!🤣😂😅

[@nunorlando369]

Ironic 😂 The west is built on mass destruction of other species and civilizations, colonialism, imperialism and slavery. Before these happenings, Europe was poor. Meanwhile, African civilizations flourish and even contributed for development of Europe (but they don't teach it at school of course). You need to dig in real history, then you will discover more about existence as it is.

[@victorlionelnazaire685]

You mean no Chinese or Indian (from India) or Japanese can start a business and thrive ?

[@edsoncota5129]

I like your videos, although it takes a long time to present them.

[@WillieFungo]

Thanks! KZbin isn't my job. I only edit when I have free time.

[@edsoncota5129]

@@WillieFungo tanks man, good job.

[@MINIMALISTIKEMENT]

Merci pour cette vidéo tres plaisante à regarder. Nous allons à Santa Maria en novembre et cette vidéo m'a donné encore plus envie d'y aller 😉

[@WillieFungo]

Merci, et bon voyage!

[@oswalddossantos1855]

What about espargos ? And local life please

[@WillieFungo]

Soon

[@victorlionelnazaire685]

10 to 1 ? On one island ? Can the Cape Verde government apply a tax per visitor AND an income tax on hotel and restaurant owners profit ?

[@davidbeauvais1364]

I’ll never go

[@nathanwilliams7901]

Clean your lens.

[@wickhunter7733]

Did you capture any footage in the strip club?

[@WillieFungo]

Good question!

[@jbrobele]

Excellent question

[@Junior-ee2iz]

@@WillieFungo the place called Calema is a night club not strip club and best believe Cape Verdean women would not be doing any activities related since a lot of men like Cape Verde because of the women which is disrespectful, Calema is an Artist from São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹

[@WillieFungo]

@@Junior-ee2iz I didn't visit Cape Verde for women. But yes, there is a strip club there located on the second floor of club Calema. They only open after 12:00 a.m and play American hip hop music.

[@razackndeze-pv5bm]

​@WillieFungo Good answer my bro. Thanks.

[@beverleyclarke7327]

Chinese owned the supermarkets, and so what about the natives what do they owns.

[@WillieFungo]

@@beverleyclarke7327 I think they own a few of the medium-sized hotels and restaurants there. But most Cape Verdians i've spoken to say lack of local ownership is a major problem on this island.

[@beverleyclarke7327]

@@WillieFungo ok

[@beverleyclarke7327]

We visited Boavista a few years ago for some hot weather and it was nice seeing the people. Not much touristy activities to do though. Lots of barren landscapes, nonetheless it was a change of scenery 😉

[@RichardGraham-l6f]

The usual fuclin annoying, bland, monotonous, senseless, insipid, distracting back-ground music!

[@russelfisch4201]

Are you sure that you are talking about the back-ground music and not about his voice?

[@JH-rk9gd]

Such black racist, race batting, gas lighting, pitting different peoples against each other

[@pauly1959]

I saw nothing worth the effort ...and the wind!

[@AT-gu8by]

They need to shorten the Europeans visa and charge them more.

[@gunwu9084]

Why? Were the hotels not build so Europeans can come for vacation?

[@jzk2020]

That's not good for the economy. But the government could step in and make them more competitive by giving them crash courses in business and government backed loans to start CO-OP businesses owned by locals.

[@edsoncota5129]

In addition to the visa, tourists pay an additional 2.5 Euros per night, which is the tourist tax. Cape Verde receives almost 1 million tourists per year.

[@esmaelhbr]

@@jzk2020 the UN gives Cape Verde a billion yearly, that's why they allow them to invest in Cape Verde, Cape Verde grew so much in the past 20 years. locals own business specially in Sao Tiago, Fogo, Sao Vicente. right now we have to adapt and grow with them. we have internet, electricity, water, phone almost everywhere, all this is within the past 10 years. now i think they are focused mostly on modernizing the roads.

[@AT-gu8by]

@@edsoncota5129 You know how much the charge Africans for visas to visit Europe? £1k-3k, working visas up to £10k. African countries need to charge Europeans more.

[@ChristianMedina-qh3dv]

I don’t think this place is good for single guys ? I see everyone in groups No single women ?

[@WillieFungo]

Sal is more of a family-oriented resort town.

[@miesterpropper7805]

Nothing shocking about it at all, its the E.U. ( Portugal)The irony of it all. Londoners have to fly there to escape seeing so many foreigners on their own streets.

[@WillieFungo]

Cape Verde isn't in the E.U, bro. I think you are thinking of the Canary Islands or Azores.

[@razackndeze-pv5bm]

@miesterpropper7805 Almost all many European are ignorant, how you can say Cape Verde is in EU?!? Absolutely nonsense, this is an African island located in shows of western Africa, not far from Senegal, about Londoners escaping seeing foreigners in their streets that's nonsense too, all European come here & other African countries to enjoy the sunshine & cheap holiday they find in the continent.

[@miesterpropper7805]

​@@WillieFungo Thanks,My bad. Yes since 1975 they have official independance from Portugal and its currency fixed to the Euro since 1999. The point I was trying to make was that its not shocking to have mass tourism in a country that needs it to survive.

[@psource2305]

@@miesterpropper7805 Cape Verde WAS Portugal, along with several other African territories, long before Portugal joined the EU, then known as the EEC or Common Market.

[@FilipeBento]

​@@WillieFungo and I am sorry to correct you, but you are confusing Madeira (Portugal) with the Canary Inslands (Spain). It's not Portugal, nor EU, but the amount of Cape Verdians that live in Portugal and Portuguese that live in Cape Verde is a big amount, hence the culture (beside all the arquitecture left from the times that Cape Verde was part of Portugal) is very similar to the Portuguese one many aspects. In fact, in Portugual we consider Cape Verdians pretty much as portuguese nationals (we don't distinguish the ones that are or aren't portuguese citizens), and also on Cape Verde, walking around there is like walking around any portuguese village -- apart from the soil, the rest is the same -- actually more similar to continental Portugal than Azores or Madeira. And most of Cape Verdians are a mix of africans and portuguese that started centuries ago.

[@fabriziopetralia93]

Cape Verde is still (treated like) a colony! Profits of these resorts are directly transferred to the head offices of European multis. Would the Cape Verdeans kick them out, then the Chinese would come and gobble up everything, like in Ethiopia! Tourism is just another form of colonialism. Better invest in the fishing industry, processing and in education. Nobody can steal your brain! Apart from that, I like your videos and how you present your content. 👍

[@vividspace1225]

It's a great video. I am a creator who introduces Korea. Let's be friends!😍