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Madeira - São Lourenço
Added: October 04, 2014
Our first real hike in Madeira happened at eastern end of island. São Lourenço is long and narrow peninsula. It does not look like the rest of island, at least it does not look like that in summer. Rest of Madeira is green. This place is brown. No green grass, just a little bit of flowers and definitely not flowers you can see at other places of this island.
We arrived quite late in the morning. With 'late' I mean we struggled to find parking space. This place is popular. Or its parking lot is not big enough.
It was sunny, with blue sky, but wind was rather strong. I guess it this place gets more than fair share of strong wind. Because of that wind and general coldness we did not go to the end and returned earlier. It is a pity, I am sure we missed nice sights. But it was not the last place we wanted to see at that day, so leaving early was OK. Actually, we are nearly always in hurry...
These were the nicest flowers I have seen there. It does not look like flower island, does it?
I hope you did not get an impression I did not like the hike or this place. No. I liked it and I like rugged places like this. I would say, this is the exception that confirms Madeira to be island of flowers and greenness :-)
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