Quinta Cochete

Jacques and Dominique, a Swiss-French couple, welcome you into their spacious and comfortable home for short or long stays, as you prefer. Enjoy the 20 m sport swimming pool or else just relax in the surroundings. Our garden produces both potatoes and sweet potatoes, many other vegetables and fruits, and sugar cane that is made into "grogue" (rum) matured in oak casks in our cave. A four-years programme, achieved with the help of local workers has resulted a full renovation of the fields; the builiding of a water-tank for gota-gota irrigation, new pens for the cattle, cows and bull, sheep and goats, and a new garden house in traditionnal style, made of stone and straw. Quinta Cochete is located on the heart of Ribeira das Patas and is the ideal starting point for all excursions to the western part of Santo Antão, a lesser known part of the island. The estate was owned by the great capverdian novelist Manuel Lopes?, who found there the inspiration of his famous novel ?Chuva Braba. From the house, you may start by foot for the Forquinha pass (3 to 4 hours), or for the Mato tour (2 1/2 hours). A more casual walk (about 2 hours) will enable you to discover the village of Lagoa and its inhabitants. Another walk along the spectacular trail of Bordeira do Norte, one of the most beautiful of Santo Antão, wll bring you onto the western altiplano in two hours, from which you can continue to the Tope de Corroa, summit of the island at 1972 m; returning via the spectacular cliff path of Cirio, from where a taxi may bring you back to Cochete.