Long Weekend --- PR21 and PR17 walks, Madeira

21-29/03/2016

PR21 walks

Cor blimey, I didn't realize where we were walking. 3.2km didn't sound lots to walk. And it didn't look bad on this map... So we decided to do this PR21. That was mistake. 😱




OMG, it was ok to start off with, it wasn't too bad, not too steep. Then, getting steeper and steeper, going down and down. We thought when it was going to end? Where it would take us? Not a lot of people were walking either, very quiet footpath. 

We carried on walking. After a while, we reached the destination. We were knackered by then. We sat and rested for a while. To be honest, we didn't want to walk up again, it was very steep to go up. 

Then found a taxi company number. Tried to ring them, but wasn't able to to get through.... We saw bus stop. We did think about walking down the road, then, thought, we were not sure how long we would have to walk to go up to the top.... We didn't even speak Portuguese....

Went through Eucalyptus forests

After long discussions, (we saw tourists there too, but they had a car...), we decided to walk up. Cor, blimey, first an hour or so, it was very steep to go up. Just continuously steep "hills", reminded me of Greece, but without flat bit. It wasn't long walks, but just loooooooong steep up hill. I was dunnin.

I think that was why, we decided to treat ourselves a glass of fresh orange juice and chips for our early dinner. We needed that. 

This is my fabo pic ever, me with a payphone, I do this everywhere I go....

PR17 walks

Following day, We decided to do PR17 again, but different part of the walk.  We got on to the footpath beside the main road, can't remember the name of the place though.... The Portuguese guy who was walking the island told us this part of PR17 had beautiful views and more waterfalls. 

Waterfall everywhere...

If I remember right, this footpath had the most and wild waterfalls and it was nice and easy walks. Waterfalls were so wild and We saw some people were really soaking wet. We weren't too bad, I was wearing my waterproof jacket and my shorts were quick-dry, only my shoes, I regretted not wearing my waterproof trainers...

Long Weekend--- Walks 6/6.1 in Madeira

21-29/03/2016

I think this was one of walks we did, with more waterfalls!

Magic woods

Waterfall heaven

Lovely Marcus posing in the waterfall pool

Water was so clear, I had to put my feet in, it was cold but worth it.

Sun started coming out, this was not circular walks, so we had to walk back to the way we came from. It was fairly bust day, saw lots of people walking. 

Cute bird like robin, following you round too, had cute singing voice and songs. 

Can you see a huge flog?

Cute birdy again, when we were sitting there, this cute birdy landed near by and certainly not too shy!

This cute one even posed for my camera! 

Long Weekend--- Sao Vicente, walks PR16

21-29/03/2016

Some photos from second day walking on PR16. It was so cool walking under the waterfalls. Madeira has got the best waterfalls I ever seen so far, mind you, I have not been many places around the world, but defo in Europe, so far is the best!

Me under the waterfall

Meditating under the waterfall

This is the long foot tunnel, a bit blurred photo, but you can see the distance

Waterfall underneath and my little foot 

The goat from the previous day had a baby goat with her! Bless. 😇

Long Weekend--- Walks PR16, Sao Vicente, Madeira

21-29/03/2016

Our Madeira holiday just started, we quickly went out for some walks. we did not really know what to expect. Luckily, the villa we stayed in had internet, so we could brows through some walks on the internet. We heard some beautiful lavada walks in Madeira, so wouldn't want to miss any of them.

Cute goat!

First day in Sao Vicente, we drove to our first walks, PR16. We got off the car and walked towards the footpath. Easy and clear footpath. We saw some goats! Continued to walk on the footpath. As we walked deeper into the footpath, we saw our very first Lavadas. This walks was easy, really flat and water taking you to the walks. 

We bumped into this German couple, and told me we would need a torch to get through some tunnels, as one of them were really long. 

Lavada!

Waterfall!

Walked through under the waterfall

First tunnel

We managed to walked though first tunnel without any issues, however, we found a bit difficult walking through I think the second one, it was loooong. So, we had to walk back.Otherwise wouldn't be able to see anything, just darkness..... We promised to each other, we would be back there following day to complete the walks.

Shame, we knew we were close to the end of the footpath, never mind. We drove round back to Sao Vicente. 

We stopped by the road and watched some waterfalls. They were long, huge, and very wild. We imagined what other waterfalls were like in the island, and felt very excited. 

More waterfalls!

In the following day, we kitted out with some torches and went back to the PR16 and completed the walks. Waterfalls everywhere in this island. That was why Madeira was so green. Shame, we did not take our water bottles this time on holiday, so we had to recycle our plastic bottles from the airport. 

I thought those lavadas took all water for rivers etc, but later I realized if lavadas were not there, this island would be flooded with water!

Sao Vicente beach

That was our first lavada walks and had taste of walking through waterfalls, we couldn't wait for more!

Wild flowers