Find refuge at Yellow, where unobstructed views of Meia Praia beach are reserved for the over 17 crowd.

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Tucked into a grove of palms off a dirt road, Praia dos Carneiros looks like it escaped from a South Seas postcard.

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Madeleine McCann went missing from her family's holiday apartment at the Ocean Club, in Praia da Luz, on 3 May.

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Cameroon will be without suspended striker Samuel Eto'o but should still be too strong for Cape Verde in Praia on Saturday.

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There remain three official suspects: Gerry and Kate McCann, Madeleine's parents, and Robert Murat, an expatriate British resident of Praia da Luz.

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But four decades of drought finally ended, as Ghana's 4-0 victory over Cape Verde in Praia secured their passage to Germany 2006.

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Here, in the oldest European enclave in Asia, there was once a magnificent vista of the harbour, and the Praia, the seafront esplanade.

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Her ordeal began on 6 November when two gunmen abducted her from a barbecue party in the town of Praia Grande, 75km (45 miles) from Sao Paulo.

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The sightings there have been, in Morocco and elsewhere, are being generated increasingly by investigators hired by the McCann appeal fund, and not the police in Praia da Luz or Portimao.

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