This category contains all of our posts about beaches and pools on Madeira Island. Madeira features few, but very nice, black sand beaches. Madeira also offers many sea-side open air pools in heavenly settings. Most often these are freely accessible or for a small fee. Ambitiously, we intend to eventually cover all of them! This category also has a general practical guide to all of Madeira’s ocean-side bathing spots. But we’ll also do a detailed blog on the places we love most. One of them is the beach of Seixal. You will also find posts about some of the famous lava pools, like the ones from Porto Moniz.
Black Sand Black sand beaches are some of the most tempting and seducing ones. They are found throughout the world but some of them, albeit be it few, black sand beaches are in Europe. Black sand mostly abounds in volcanic regions. Black sand comes most probably from lava, basalt and volcanic minerals. These are broken …
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 …
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 …
