Before the map makes sense, music has already found you. A radio hums from a market stall, voices drift across a courtyard, and a beat tapped on a tabletop spreads until the whole street joins in.
The climate is tropical, hot and humid all year, with heavy rains for about half of it and a drier, dustier stretch when winds blow in from the Sahara. Pack light fabrics and a rain jacket. A Local Friend walks beside you instead of ahead, so the songs you hear turn into names.
Language, money, timing and the details travelers sort out before they land.
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Palm butter in small cookshops, market stalls spilling toward the harbor, an empty hotel on the city's highest hill and a news board written in chalk, all on a cape facing the Atlantic.
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