Private
Your own villa, not a room on a hotel floor. Space, quiet, and a door only you open.
São Filipe · Fogo · Cabo Verde
Pico do Fogo · São FilipeWhere comfort meets culture.
Three villas on Fogo, hosted by the two of us. The volcano, the wine and the black-sand coast begin at the door. Cabo Verde, with a Puerto Rican soul.
Direct booking — best rate, no platform fees
Licensed local guides
Run in person by the hosts
EN · PT · ES spoken
The Idea
Two islands, one way of hosting. We bring a Puerto Rican warmth to Fogo: private homes on the edge of a living volcano, kept the way we'd keep our own.
Comfortable
Good beds, good light, and coffee on the terrace before anyone else is up.
Elevated
The Pico at sunrise, wine from the crater, and a night sky with no city in it.
The Collection
The villas
01São Filipe · sea view
Casa Bela
A sobrado above the black-sand bay, sunset from the terrace.
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The Island
One island: a volcano, a vineyard, a coast of black sand.
Fogo rises straight out of the Atlantic: a near-perfect cone you can climb, a caldera where wine grows in black ash, and São Filipe, a cobbled colonial town above the sea. You can drive its edges in an afternoon and still be finding new corners a week later.
- Getting here45-min flight, or the ferry, from Praia (Santiago).
- Pico do Fogo2,829 m — the highest peak in Cabo Verde.
- Chã das CaldeirasWine villages living inside the volcanic crater.
- São FilipeColonial sobrados, black-sand bays, sunsets over Brava.
São FilipeChã das CaldeirasPico do FogoExperiences
Climb the Pico. Drink the wine that grows in its ash. Sleep under the caldera.
A few multi-day trips we run ourselves, with local guides who grew up on the mountain. Book a villa and we'll build the days around it.
014 days / 3 nights
Fire & Vine
Summit · Chã wine tasting · lava fields · stargazing.
023 days / 2 nights
Chã Slow
Wine, stars & stillness — the volcano without the climb.
033 days / 2 nights
Villa & Volcano
A weekend of caldera, wine and black-sand sunsets.
São Filipe, FogoThe Hosts
A Cape Verdean welcome, a Puerto Rican heart.
We're a couple. One of us grew up on the black-sand streets of São Filipe; the other in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We met a long way from both, and kept circling the same idea: somewhere to stay on Fogo that feels like someone's home, not a hotel.
Cabo Rico is that place. We meet you at the door, mark up a map with the walks and the cook shops worth your time, and stay a phone call away for the rest of your stay.
Your hostsMorabeza — the Cape Verdean word for the warmth you give a guest.
Founders' names & portrait to be added before launch.
Guests
What guests remember.
“We booked three nights and changed our flights to stay five. Most mornings we just sat on the terrace and watched the boats come in.”
“They sent us up to Chã for a tasting with a family that has made wine there for generations. We came home with two bottles and a standing invitation.”
“Small things: breakfast was already in the fridge, and someone had written down the bus times by hand. Looked after, but never fussed over.”
Sample testimonials — to be replaced with real guest reviews before launch.
Plan your stay
Come to Fogo. Stay with us.
Send us your dates and how many of you there are. We'll tell you what's free, what the volcano's doing, and what a few days could look like.