Walking holiday in the Azores
| country: | Azores, Portugal | ||||
| location: | Azores | ||||
| trip type: | Introductory walking holidays | ||||
| departures: | 2010: 19 Jun | ||||
| price: | From €975 (8 days) including domestic flights only, as per itinerary. Price includes half board accommodation, 7 dinners, transfers, transfers and an experienced walk leader
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| vouchers: | Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday |
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introduction to Walking holiday in the Azores
This week offers you the chance to discover an exotic corner of Europe where life remains refreshingly civil and unhurried.
We will spend the week exploring São Miguel, largest of the Azores islands having time to visit the only tea plantation in Europe.
Highlights:
We will spend the week exploring São Miguel, largest of the Azores islands having time to visit the only tea plantation in Europe.
Highlights:
- Visit the islands of São Miguel
- Spectacular volcanic scenery
- Green mountains embroidered with blue hydrangeas
- Thermal springs
- Option to go whale watching
day-by-day itinerary
| Day 1: | Fly from Lisbon to Ponta Delgada, transfer to hotel, overnight Ponta Delgada. | |
| Day 2: | A wonderful walk down from Lagoa do Fogo (Fire lake) to the coast with time to explore the rugged cliffs, 10km / 6.5miles, overnight Ponta Delgada. | |
| Day 3: | Sete Cidades crater walk. A spectacular walk around the largest crater on the island, in places its sheer walls drop like green curtains for 300m, 14km/8.7miles, overnight Ponta Delgada. | |
| Day 4: | A visit to the islands only tea plantation before walking around the Furnas crater with its steaming geysers and bubbling springs. The day ends with a tour of the Terra Nostra botanical gardens, 10km/7.5miles, overnight Ponta Delgada. | |
| Day 5: | Fly to Faial with time to explore the capital Horta in the afternoon, overnight Horta. | |
| Day 6: | A walk around the Caldeira Cabeço Gordo and a visit to the far west of the island, 10km/7.5miles, overnight Horta. | |
| Day 7: | A short ferry ride to the island of Pico for a walk on the mystic volcano of the same name, 12km/7.5miles - there is also the option to go whale watching - overnight Horta. | |
| Day 8: | Fly from Horta to Lisbon. |
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