It's 5am when my alarm clock wakes me. Time to get out! I shuffle around my hotel room in the dark, splash some water in my face, grab my camera bag and get into the car. My destination: Achada do Teixeira. It's still pitch dark when I arrive at Achada do Teixeira, so before I start my early morning hike to Pico Ruivo I search for my flashlight. At 6.30am I install myself and my camera on top of one of the mountains around Pico Ruivo. The sky...
On MADEIRAMAZING we like to emphasize the many possibilities for enjoying an active stay on Madeira. The many different ways to enjoy nature and all kinds of adventure sports is mainly why we love this island. In 2011, the Madeira tourist office, organized the first Madeira Nature Festival, to actively promote precisely those aspects of the island. MADEIRA NATURE FESTIVAL The Madeira Nature Festival, 3rd to 8th of October 2017, is a week long event that promotes all tourist activities based on nature, thereby encouraging contact with the rich natural...
Every time we visit Madeira I will look forward to seeing some local festivities somewhere on the island. Because Madeira decorations are the best! Since Madeira is quite big on festivities, I will often see the decorations I love somewhere. Lucky me. Most of the villages have their own religious celebrations. Besides the local festivities there are many national events in which the people of Madeira will decorate entire streets or towns. The amount of work going into decorating these villages is enormous! Dozens of people will slave (and...
