Back from the Island of Príncipe, after a week lost on the last African Eden. Took this one on a scenic flight over the northern coastline. Wild unspoiled beauty, as you can see
Príncipe is the northern of the two major islands of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe lying off the west coast of Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea. It has an area of 136 km² and a population of approximately 6,000. The island is a heavily eroded volcano over three million years old covered with luxuriant tropical jungle. Príncipe rises in the south to 948 metres at Pico de Príncipe, in a thickly forested area wich is believed to be the last virgin primary rain forest of Africa. The north and centre of the Island were formerly plantations, formed under Portuguese Empire. These concentrated initially on producing sugar and later on cocoa, becoming the world's greatest cocoa producer. Since independence (1975) these plantations have since largely reverted to forest. Roça (plantation) Sundy, here in Príncipe, was the site where colonialists Einstein's Theory of Relativity was experimentally proved successful by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and his team during the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919
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Just a pretext to say hello and to apologize all my friends for my long absence, due to work reasons - I hope everything is fine with you
Took this one on Island of Príncipe, off the west coast of Africa, while visiting roça (plantation) Terreiro Velho, property of Claudio Corallo, a famous italian tropical agronomist and chocolatier - yes, true: he CAN delight his eyes with this fabulous view every day of the year. What a lucky, lucky guy...
Born in Florence, Toscania, Corallo has lived in São Tome and Principe for the last 19 years where he grows cocoa and produces his own gourmet chocolate with a meticulous focus on purity and innovation. The secret of the success of Corallo's chocolates is not only the nobility of the cacao plants themselves, but the painstaking care taken during every stage of production. With scrupulous attention to hygiene, and absolute dedication to quality, Claudio Corallo uses methods he adapted or invented during his thirty years of field experience. The chocolates they offer include the extraordinarily pure and unequivocally 100% to the only chocolate in the world that contains a distillate (liqueur) that Claudio extracts from the cocoa pulp. I visited too Corallo's plantation on island of São Tomé - Nova Moca - where he grows coffee
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The wonderful Banana beach (Praia Banana) almost hidden in the dense equatorial forest of Principe Island
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«The mimetic cases are truly marvellous, and you connect excellently a host of analogous facts», said Charles Darwin. He was right. This gorgeous and chameleonic Lady is a good example. She posed for me somewhere in Santo António, city capital of Príncipe Island (São Tomé e Príncipe)
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This wild unspoiled natural beauty is the Island of Príncipe, on the Gulf of Guinea, west coast of Africa. Took this photo during a flight over the southern coastline, which is covered with which is believed to be the last virgin primary rain forest of Africa (!). This misterious island is a heavily eroded volcano over three million years old with an area of 136 km² and a population of approximately 6,000 (6,001 while I was there)
Einstein's Theory of Relativity was experimentally proved successful in this island by British scientist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington during the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919. I must say I found here one of the most stunning beaches I've ever seen – praia Banana (check the cover of my album «Aerial - from the Sky»)
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