Madeira is an autonomous region of Portugal on the same latitude as Casablanca, Morocco, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It was an unplanned destination, offering further proof that you cannot plan too far into the future because life has other ideas. There are almost two dozen micro-climates on the island and so there are a lot of interesting and variable hikes, many of which follow a levada, or aqueduct. We went on an amazing 11k hike where the drop-offs were scary but the views were incredible.
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| Steps at the end of the hike, under the clouds |
