Incredible experience with the turtles of São Pedro - We loved this excursion! It is incredible to swim with the turtles. We would, however, recommend more safety measures for entering/exiting the water.

Turtle-ganza! - If you have ever done a turtle dive in the US, recalibrate your expectations. After the 200-300-meter boat ride, we are at the site with around a dozen turtles. For the half-hour, we snorkeled around, and the turtles (and a few fish) swam around. Several times, they bumped into us! The water was warm and calm enough to make the whole excursion amazing!

Loved the Sea Turtles - Fabulous! Great Experience. We were picked up promptly and delivered to the beach. Our guide made us feel very comfortable. Entry to and from the beach went very well. Being in the water with the sea turtles was such a wonderful experience. We spent 40 minutes swimming very close to them. Beautiful creatures.

Great tour! - This was a wonderful opportunity, and the guys from Bu Country couldn’t have been better! The pick up at the cruise pier went perfectly, and the team at the beach were experts in getting the boat out through the incoming waves and wind. Once beyond the waves, we donned snorkeling gear and slipped over the side to tread water for the next 1/2 hour and the turtles swarmed all around us. The water is deep, so you need to be able to swim well, or use a life vest. When it came time to leave, they helped us back into the boat, and brought us back ashore through the waves like pros, with no issues. I highly recommend Bu Country and their operation at Sao Pedro beach.

Short, powerful, beautiful experience! - We have wonderful memories of this and could go again in a heartbeat. What an experience, many beautiful turtles around us in the water and incredibly friendly people who guided us, with whom we were able to communicate well from the start. A photo of the place where we were picked up was even sent via WhatsApp. This was also coordinated a day in advance. Great people. We experienced this during an excursion on our cruise and booked directly at Turtle House Cape Verde via TripAdvisor. You should definitely see this if you are in Mindelo. Remember to bring a towel, swimwear, hat and possibly a snorkel set. If you do not have the latter, please let us know so that it can be arranged. We combined this, because we also walked through the center with a friendly resident of Mindelo to see real local life. Visited the church and market, among others. A half day in total on the road was perfect for us with the children. Thanks again team Turtle House for everything!!!! We will never forget it. Greetings and best wishes from David, Bianca, Lucas and Julian

a good bath in nature - For my part I watch the water, but for the swimmers it is truly a magnificent experience, the teams on site are correct and responsible

Wonderful - It was a very special experience. The guide was very friendly and were very helpful. The organization worked great. Thank you für all.

Sao Vicente Excursion - We absolutely loved this excursion! Swimming with the turtles is an incredible experience. Our guide Nelson was really nice and friendly.

Beautiful Experience with the Turtles - My guide Maira was excellent. Her English was great and I was picked up on time (the bus arrived early) from my guesthouse. We went to San Pedro and joined other people waiting to take the excursion from the turtle house. About 45 - 60 minutes is spent with the turtles. One has the choice to remain in the boat or to snorkel. I do not have strong swimming skills, so I chose to spend most of my time in the boat photographing the turtles. Maira was kind and empathetic to my lack of swimming skills. She gently encouraged me to go into the water and offered to join me, but was also supportive when I quickly wanted to return to the boat. We were given snorkeling equipment and life jackets, although we had to share the life jackets as not enough were available. A ladder was also not available to go in and out of the boat, although I was told that there would be one on board. These oversights were the result of poor planning and the excursion would have been safer with enough life jackets and a ladder. I would recommend this excursion because the turtles are impressive and the BU Country Tours staff was great, but more attention to safety would be an area of improvement.

Once but not twice... - Depending on your understanding of the subject, it is quite simply a tourist trap which has the sole merit of making the local economy work in my opinion... Question of price if you go directly to the site via the collective bus or other transport, the activity is €15/person for 45 minutes. The motor boats moor 80/100 m from the shore and once in the water, you have to swim alongside knowing that one of the young people who accompanies you throws food into the water in small pellets which attract turtles. They are not legion... Please note that you can easily swim to one of the boats with a mask and snorkel and mingle with the tourists...