Approaching the airport of Madeira

Wind shears, the mountains and the cliff coast complicate the landing. Once captains were only allowed to land here if they had a "Madeira licence". Moreover, the runway was extended from around 1800 m to 2777m. On the picture, we were in the phase of flying a very tight right turn to align the airplane to the runway.

The lizards take over the island of the levadas!

August 18th 2017
The island of the levadas - that pretty much sums up a big part of the hiking trail network on Madeira. These water carrying, tunnel passing, the fields irrigating, hiker pleasing channels, formerly built by slaves, are a sight itself and should be at least one part of any Madeira itinerary. We saw several of them - Levada dos Balcoes, from Ribeiro Frio to Portela, the Levada do Norte to Cabo G ... read more

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