This Category contains all posts about outings, activities, museum visits, which you can plan for while on Madeira. It can give you great ideas on what to do depending on the time you have available, the distance you are willing to drive or depending on the weather. Everything you need is here, wether you are going for a levada walk, visiting a museum, doing a car tour, visiting one of Madeira’s mountain peaks, visiting volcanic grottos, tropical gardens, going to the beach, treating the kids on a round of karting fun.
Festivals Madeira is well known for its dramatic cliffs “falling” into the ocean, for its lush and colorful vegetation and for its black sand beaches. However, Madeira is also synonym with Festivals. So, we just experienced Carnival and the Flower Festival, and around the corner arrives the Atlantic Festival. Atlantic Festival Certainly, this festival kicks …
This year again and for the 17th time, the parish of Curral das Freiras organizes its ‘Mostra do Brigalhó’. Canary Lord-and-Ladies But you may ask: “what is a brigalho?” It is a plant called Canary Lord-and-Ladies (Botanical name: Arum italicum ssp. Canariensis) The brigalho is the rarest of all Arum italicum subspecies. It makes green …
Blog and Madeira’s North Coast It is always delightful to be featured in a renowned blog, namely Le Big Trip. A couple of French world wanderers expatriated in Australia decided to explore Madeira Island with their baby son. They describe the North Coast of Madeira as in striking contrast to the South. The North Coast …
Faja de Cabo Girao The Rancho Cable Car connects the viewpoint “Rancho” to the Fãja de Cabo Girão. This Fãja lays just below the emblematic and well-known highest vertical drop cliff of Europe, Cabo Girão. So after a visit of Cabo Girão we recommend an excursion down to the fields seen from the cliff. Rancho …
This remote area of cultivated land adjacent to the ocean, once unknown, is now a popular place on Madeira. Unlike the Fajã da Quebrada Nova in Achadas da Cruz, the Fajã dos Padres can be a really busy place in Summer. Fajã dos Padres lies by the sea, at the bottom of a smooth, vertical …
Achadas da Cruz Viewpoint The Achadas da Cruz viewpoint, belonging to the Parish of Porto Moniz, has a cable car service that connects the great viewpoint to the beach. Footpath – Trail A footpath also zigzags down. However, venturing down the 470m near vertical drop requires a serious condition! The path is a mixture of …
Cristo Rei da Madeira – Lusophone World Comparison When mentioning a Cristo Rei statue, most everyone thinks of the one in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. The Madeira version albeit a little smaller is the oldest Cristo Rei version in the Portuguese speaking world. The Madeira Cristo Rei in Garajau is 14 meters height and dates …
Madeira The island of Madeira makes up part of a Portuguese volcanic archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. It is somewhat lost in the Ocean between the Azores (Portugal) and the Canaries (Spain). The island is well known for its subtropical forest, the Laurisilva, its walkways or levadas, its hiking / running trails, its gastronomy, its …
Trail Running Madeira There is a special place on earth for trail running with gorgeous ocean views, lush scenery and a sub-tropical climate. That ideal running venue is called Madeira. Due to its high mountainous terrain, Madeira is perfect for trail running. Trail running forces you to break free from a fixed pace, challenging you …
Tourist Entertainment Calendar Mark your agendas, the Board of Tourism has released the tourist entertainment calendar both for 2019 and 2020. Hence, the Madeira Tourist Board organizes these activities principally for tourists. If you would like to witness or participate in events organized across the island for Madeirans, please refer back to this blog post …
History of Madeira Botanical Garden – Funchal Madeira Island is a spectacular and smallish island famed for its balmy climate and for its wonderful and renowned gardens. We already presented the Monte Palace Tropical Gardens (here) in an earlier post. This time we will talk about the Madeira Botanical Garden. The Madeira Botanical Garden (Jardim …
