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Madeira ..... where is it, why exactly there, how to ...... A bunch of questions for which a precise answer to that moment when someone asked did not exactly give you .... but we answer So .... still .... Madeira in February 2010.
Madeira is located (approximately, of course) to 32.stopinjah north latitude and 16 degrees west longitude. Or another way, a little more south-west of Gibraltar, monte williams thence to the Canary Islands or even 980 km from Lisbon straight PES in a straight line with a plane ...... monte williams Volcanic Islands as us nicely presented at the Museum of volcanic origin in Madeira Sao Vincente with the presentation of the journey to the interior of the earth (only the descent of the lift 10 m) but very experienced with 3D film about volcanoes and the formation of the archipelago and visit the underground caves at which the glowing lava flowed into the sea ....
On the island population of about 280 000 people, of which around 220 000 in the capital city of Funchal. The island is big between about 58 x 29 km, has 283 tunnels, the Portuguese, also called the island of eternal spring, since T is constantly there for about 15 to 28 degrees. It is also felt in the vegetaciji.Cel week I studied the flora and came to some conclusions secular, that you stick in the ground, but growing. The gardens are jointly grow fresh potatoes before flowers, flowers in broccoli, Brussels sprouts semi-picked salad small, large, implanted just shoot brassica ..... From decorative RASTIN, I noticed daffodils, flowers monte williams Tagetes in addition to daffodils, strelicije and many other flowers typical of this or that our season there in Madeira gardens blooming all together. Since trees grow together plantations of bananas, I realized avocados, Dalmatian mušpulo, mango, mandarin, lemon and passion fruit. My plant order is maintained only trees of our region, which were now, as with us without leaves (pear, apple, cherry trees were in bloom and sweet chestnut). monte williams Red is broke down again larch, which was full of needles, as with us in the summer. These are of course just lay my findings and observations. I have I been high, slender Eukaliptus and on the way to Pico Grande (1657 m) we smelled the fragrant smell of flowers Eukaliptus.
Just at the time of our visit the island affected by heavy rain. Start storms, we felt we also, since we are just amazed at the amount of rain this week, above the storm that blew in gusts up to 8o km per hour and this is exactly when we crossed the ridge between Pico and Pico to Areeiro Ruivo, 1862 is the highest peak of Madeira. The last day they all waited for planes to calm the wind, so we have all been waiting for passengers at the airport more than 5 hours a take-off of aircraft. The wind has calmed down a bit so that we can take off and return to Lisbono, but the atmosphere monte williams was stormy, we felt very well on the plane. Well today, Saturday, 2010 20:02 I read that torrents monte williams and swept a storm on the island. Now, when I was there, I understand how this is possible, since this is an island with almost no planes, even the airport is built on concrete piles that are anchored deep in the sea surface. The hills are high up to 1862 meters, with steep vegetated slopes that go straight to the sea. The largest cliffs on Earth is also the Madeira Cabo GIRAO, with 580 m height. The steep slopes are cut off from many ravines which fall under the waterfalls and the deep gorges. After such slopes winding roads carved into the slope or are routed in tunnels through the mountains of Madeira from one to the other side of the island.
We saw old attractive street from Sao Vicente to Porto Muniz. A special feature is the fact that the roads are very narrow, carved into the steep cliffs, so he ran morning traffic in one direction, the other in the afternoon. If I remember right it was still 1995.
We visited the island on all sides, with most of the Sao Laurenco closest monte williams to Africa, shown in the first picture and the most part of the island of Porto Monizom and Ponta do Pargo. All day we went to the highest peaks of Madeira, in the morning monte williams and the evening, on the way visit the famous city of museums. In the meantime, the vehicles at attractive roads and wondered how they are carved into the rock and where it is taking so much water that falls in cascades over previse.Najbolje is to start with the type of days, because it has to be red, even bad ...
Day 1, Thursday, 11/02/2010: At night and in the morning it was snowing and we were happy shovel snow and hoped that in this time of Madeira and our yard at least one thing in common, it is number 30 in our 30 inches of snow, but in Madeira 30 C above zero, of course.
Snow hinder us nothing, and at 17.20 we had a flight from Venice to Lisbono and then take on another 2 hour flight monte williams to Funcal, the capital of Madeira. The bus drove us to the hotel in Sao Vincente, where we were staying a further 7 days. Since we arrived late at night, I first thought that the road to the hotel immediately and some kind of noise caused by cars. I opened the window and all surprised to find that the hotel is just off the coast, noise drop SLA