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Madeira 2005
Funchal from the hotel
Here's a view of Funchal from our hotel at night
the same view but at dawn the next morning
And another view on a different morning
Finally a view during the day
A tour round the west of Madeira
Cāmara de Lobos
the sea was quite rough at Ribeira Brava
the tallest sea cliff in Europe at 580m at Cabo Girao
The old road between Seixal and Porto de Moniz is hacked into the cliff just above the sea. Until recently this road had been for two-way traffic including coaches and lorries.
Above Porto Moniz the farmland is steeply terraced
Mountain views in the Centre of Madeira
Sunbeams through the valley near Serra de Agua
This picture doesn't do the view justice as it was taken out of the window of a moving coach
There's very little flat land in the centre of Madeira
The view north near Serra de Agua
A walk on the Levada
The Levadas are water channels cut into the sides of mountains to bring water from the wet north to the more populated south of Madeira. There are access paths by the side and they make very interesting walks
This shows how steep the side of this mountain was.
Funchal from the Levada
The Levadas can sometimes get very muddy
There are many waterfalls, luckily the sun came out to give this rainbow effect