Madeira Island Tours – Santana & The Mountains Of Madeira

Madeira Island Tours – Santana & The Mountains Of Madeira

• Be dazzled by the view on the third highest mountain of Madeira (Pico do Areeiro with 1818 meters above the sea level).
• Visit the traditional straw roof houses in Santana and be delighted by the beautiful flowers and tarditions.
• Explore the green north coast of the island.

After the visit to Pico Ruivo, you’ll start to make your way to the north of the island passing by Ribeiro Frio, well-known for the trout hatchery and also for the Laursissilva forest (World heritage by UNESCO since 1999) after that we will starting to go down to reach Santana. In Santana you will find the traditional triangular shaped with straw roof houses, commonly known by “Casas de Santana”.

Following the road along the north coast, you will visit the village of Porto da Cruz and their rum factory and the city of Machico, the place where the portuguese navigator first landed in 1419.

On our way back to Funchal, we will pass by Camacha, very famous for is wickerwork warehouse and for being the place where the first football game took place.

Finishing our jeep safari trip, we go in direction of the harbor where you’ll set sail and go explore our coast and also have the opportunity to see whales and dolphins along the way.

Leaving Funchal, we go in direction of Pico das Torres, where you’ll have an amazing view over the bay of Câmara de Lobos, a fishing village well-known for being…

Places we will visit: Câmara de Lobos, Ribeira Brava, Encumeada, São Vicente, Porto Moniz, Paul da Serra, Calheta and Ponta do Sol.

In this trip you’ll have a few viewpoints to visit, being Pico dos Barcelos the first one, at 355m high. From there you will have an amazing view over the city of Funchal, needless to say that this is one…

Places we will visit: Eira do Serrado, Monte.