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.
Surf, SUP & Bodyboard in São Vicente São Vicente is known for its quaint village, for the amazing tall and white chapel sitting on a hill, its volcanic caves, the smaller chapel by the ocean, its ocean front with restaurant and shops and its great surf possibilities. New Surf Zone The new Surf Zone of …
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 …
Madeira is a volcanic island with a very rough landscape and plunging cliffs. Albeit being a rather small island, it boosts a total of 7 scenic cable cars. Two of them are well known to Madeira visitors, namely the cable car linking the city of Funchal to Monte and the one linking Monte to the …
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 …
Who knows Porto Santo Porto Santo: most everyone has never heard of Porto Santo. … and honestly why should one know about such a tiny island lost in the Atlantic? Let us show you why you should be quick in getting to know Porto Santo. The island is a small, secluded, unspoiled, uncrowded beach refuge. …
Calhau Surf School Calhau Surf School is Madeira’s first and thus oldest surf school. It organized private and group surf and paddle lessons. The school is certified by the Portuguese Surfing Federation. The central person of the Calhau Surf School is Rodolfo Machado. Originally from mainland Portugal, he travelled the world as an architect and …
