Sal Island Tour: Salinas Salt Lake, Pedra de Lume Village, and up close encounter with Lemon Sharks

Experience the beauty of Sal Island on a half-day tour. Visit Salinas Salt Lake, Pedra de Lume Village, and get up close with lemon sharks in their natural habitat.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Santa Maria - We’ll pick you up at your hotel in Santa Maria between 1 pm and 1:30 pm. From here, we’ll drive to our first destination of the day, the eastern part of the island to visit Shark Bay and see its famous lemon sharks up close. Here you’ll be able to enjoy a 20-minute observing lemon sharks swimming around you.
    Afterwards, we’ll visit…
What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • On-site assistance
  • Expert and local guide
  • Liability insurance
  • Hotel pickup and return transfer
What's Not Included
  • Entrance to the Pedra de Lume salt lake: € 6
Additional Information

Enjoy a half day island tour and visit places like Salinas salt lake, Pedra de Lume Village, the first populated village on Sal island which retains its architecture intact. Have the experience to see the lemon sharks in their natural environment very closely.
Salinas serves to forget the stress of everyday life, not having to leave the island without…

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Adventurer815853
Jan 23, 2025
Excellent Experience - Excellent experience all round. We did the full-day trip and were impressed with the guide. We also enjoyed visiting the authentic parts of the island as well as the tourist attractions.
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Mojcak143
Jan 16, 2025
For exploring the Sal island, Sal experience is the best choice. - We take 2 trips with Sal experience and both was perfect. Local guides knows very much, they explained us about the history of the island and showed us places that without a local guide would remain unseen. Just like you are visiting an island with a friend. Thank you
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Ritas4900
Dec 14, 2024
Interesting Island tour. - Our guide was very friendly, helpful and interesting. We were disappointed by the shark experience, but that wasn't his fault. It's difficult to see or photograph these sharks well because of the rippling sea all the time. We'd expected something similar to our sting ray experience, when they were really easy to see, & the sea was above our waists, instead of around our ankles. However that's how it is in reality, & they showed it to us as well as it could be. Swimming in the Salinas was fun. Seeing a large part of the island, together with information about each place, and the way of life, was great.
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M_rioo399
Jul 28, 2024
Excellent. - My second time on the island of Sal and the second private tour with the Sal Experience. We conducted a half-day tour with the guide Cristian. He was attentive, conversational and full of information about the places we passed, which he appreciated and much of our day. Thank you very much.
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Lyndajbr56
Jul 17, 2024
Must see trip to Shark Island & Sainas - Highly recommend this trip with Edmunson & Jackson. They were punctual, welcoming & very knowledgeable. Loved the experience, particularly shark island.
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Gwendolyn
Jul 8, 2024
Nice - Christinan, the guide, was very welcoming, cheerful and friendly. He could tell us a bit more about the history of the island. The driver was friendly too, I lost his name. The village is honestly not worth it. But it was nice to see the baby sharks swimming at your feet. Swimming in the salt lake was also a nice experience. It was a beautiful setting, in that volcano crater.
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Grahamhh3218cp
Feb 1, 2025
Sharks and salt - Great trip. Guide very knowledgeable. Strange experience to be standing in water being circled by small sharks and later floating in highly salinated water. All in the group enjoyed the day.
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Pgdey
Jan 29, 2025
A small tour of Sal (about 3 hours) - Punctual pickup, George good driver and Eloiso, our guide, always attentive and helpful gave us detailed information about Sal and the tour locations. Considering the 3 places of the tour and the fact that the water shoes €2 and Saline ticket €6 They are extra, I recommend decreasing the cost of the excursion.
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Kim_q
Nov 18, 2024
A must do excursion in Sal - Visiting the Salt Lake and seeing the lemon Sharks were enjoyable experiences. The guides were informative and helpful. The transport was an old bone shaker of a minibus which didn’t make you feel completely safe.
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Vacationer428701
Sep 16, 2024
Incomplete tour - The visit to see the lemon sharks and bathe in the dead lake was very good, the Guide spectacular, but they did not fulfill what was collected in the itinerary, as the visit to the capital or Murdeira was not made, let alone the blue eye. The Guide could not explain the reason for this situation. So I'll have to do it on my own.
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