Bissagos Islands
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UNESCO biosphere reserve with wildlife, beaches, and simple life
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UNESCO biosphere reserve with wildlife, beaches, and simple life
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"This little-visited archipelago offers exclusively weather- and tide-dependent excursions (details often confirmed only the day before), with small-boat and kayak landings into forests, wetlands and mangroves where visitors may encounter hippos, monitor lizards and numerous native birds; landings can include wet, tender-required approaches and are intended for travelers comfortable with rugged, natural environments." - Travel + Leisure Editors
"On first inspection, the Bijagos, located 50 kilometers off the coast of Guinea-Bissau, has enough island paradise cliches for at least a dozen over-written press releases. This 88-island archipelago has blue sea, palm trees, and deserted beaches with clean white sand. There are saltwater hippos inhabiting one island, and nesting sea turtles on another. In 1996, it was declared a UNESCO biosphere reserve. When I visited two months ago, in the middle of a trip along the coast of West Africa, I lay in a hammock on a hill, looked out across the bay, and wondered if this was the closest I would ever get to a billionaire’s holiday. And yet, the Maldives this is not. (It’s safe to say that Elon Musk will not be summering here any time soon.)" - Tom Ford
"Ponant’s new itinerary to the Bijagos archipelago includes interaction with the Bidyogo people and sightings of wildlife such as saltwater hippos, crocodiles, and monkeys."
Included as one of UNESCO’s new World Heritage Sites, this area in Guinea-Bissau is identified as a protected coastal and marine ecosystem within the Bijagós Archipelago, but no further descriptive information is given in the text. - Daniela Toporek
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