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Sao Tome and Principe

Always a friendly wave and smile.

Close back into town at Sao Tome city.

Past some nicer residential districts

We are passing the center of town. Locals and kids congregating.

Lots of motorcycles. The unemployement rate in Sao Tome is around 20%.

Looks like a grandmother sharing some time with her grandchildren.

We arrive for lunch in town at the Hotel Pestana Sao tome siting right on the bay.

View from the hotel patio, our ship the Regent Seven Seas Voyager, in the distance with a small boat passing in between the ship and the hotel beach area.

The infinity pool at the hotel. We were fortunate to have a nice lunch with local dishes prepared for us. The pool was in front of the dining room and then the ocean, What a view.

These flowers were in the lobby grown locally. I believe they are Torch Ginger. Absolutely beautiful.

After lunch we toured the Sao Sebastiao Museum, close to the hotel, These 3 Portuguese statues looking out to the sea were near the entrance to the museum building. .

Our local guide, who ironically was from Switzerland, explained details of the museum for us. São Sebastião Museum is a museum, housed in a 16th-century fortress in the central part of the city. It contains religious art and colonial-era artifacts. The fortress was built in 1566 by the Portuguese in order to protect the port and city of São Tomé against pirate attacks.

Some of the old artifacts on display within the museum. If that furniture could only talk.

The light house, which is built into the fortress is São Sebastião Lighthouse at the southeastern end of Ana Chaves Bay in São Tomé. The lighthouse is a 18 foot high white round tower with a red lantern. It was built in 1928.

We then stopped y the fishing village of Pantufo where fish were laid out to dry on a wall to dry under the sun next to the beach.

Amazing there were no flies in and around the fish as they dried under the sun.

Naturally when a group of of tourists show up kids seem to come out of no where. They enjoyed posing for photos. Even more when I showed them the photo of them.

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