Loos Islands

The Loos Islands lie half an hour offshore from the capital and are where the city goes to get away from itself, a small group of wooded islands with palm beaches and water clear enough to swim in. Kassa takes the crowds and has bars along the sand, while Roume is quieter and keeps a few colonial villas under the trees. The third island held a French penal colony and its church and cell blocks still stand. Bauxite is still dug on one part of Kassa. Crossings stop when the sea gets up in the rains.