Fabulous walk - Serrad’Agua - Levada do Norte. - What a fabulous way to spend a morning! This was our first levada walk and we weren’t disappointed. Our guide Alvaro was professional, knowledgable, safety conscious, highly experienced and very, very entertaining! The pace was brisk but comfortable with stops to point out places, plants, people and things of interest. The walk was from A to B so we didn’t have to retrace our steps, and the minibus took us to a great cafe after the walk before heading home. I would highly recommend this company.

Great Levada experience - It was an easy walk, following a part of the Levada do Norte, with beautiful views and nice eucalyptus smells. Our lovely guide Yulya was very knowledgeable of the plants and flowers and our driver Mr. Alvaro entertained us with his jokes. We enjoyed the walk very much and at the walk ended with a coffee in Campanario. We highly recommend this walk for people that are afraid of heights or cannot walk a far end.

Pleasant walking tour - It was a nice and pleasant walk. The guide was very helpful, with a lot of interesting facts about the island and the locals. I would recommend the tour.

Excellent walk with very interesting guide. - Excellent walk with Avaro who was an entertaining very knowledgeable guide. Lovely coffee/ cake stop at end of walk.

Beautiful introduction to Levada do Nord. - A beautiful Saturday morning hike which was not over taxing. Alvaro guided us all so well ensuring, throughout, we aware of rocky ground underfoot to maintain safety. Had lots of interesting details pointed out through out the hike which would have gone unnoticed if not explained by Alvaro. Beautiful views of sea & land . Also very pleasant journey to & from hike . The cafe was a lovely way to finish hike with a well deserved coffee & tart.. Delicious . Thank you.

This tour was more... - This tour was more special than I expected. Guide Alvaro was very informative and helpful and was cracking jokes through the whole trip. He also told a little about Maderia's history and showed different plants along the way. Very nice way to spend my saturday morning. Thank you!

Álvaro is great and gives all to the tour - All parts are memorable. The host was great and sure would repeat another tour if I had time in this island.

Good walk - Excellent guide knowledgeable and entertaining pleasant walk through the forest and great wiews of the sea

MADEIRA, MAGICAL AND POWERFUL - We stayed in Madeira for a week. We stayed at Quinta Splendida, Caniço. Excellent location (5 km from Funchal) in a large, lush garden with ocean view. The suite is spacious, a little dated in terms of furnishings. From here, we easily moved around the island by car. Pay attention to the roads and navigator directions, which are often unreliable. Always use the Via Rapida which goes from the airport to Funchal and beyond. The seaside resorts are beautiful but the mountain ones are superb. Not to be missed: Monte Palace, a spectacular Japanese-style botanical garden that is worth a visit of over two hours; the Posto Florestal do Fanal, a magical and enchanted place; the Parque Florestal das Queimadas and the village of Santana. For the more physically fit, excursions of all kinds, even to Ponta de São Lourenço... easy but exciting all the same, the Cabo do Girão... An unforgettable and beautiful holiday before returning to the Algarve, where I have been living with my wife for 6 years now... PS: the only flaw, the cuisine which, as in the Algarve, leaves much to be desired even in the most accredited Italian restaurants such as Villa Cipriani in Funchal (wonderful view of the ocean, little respect for the quality of the dishes offered )... In summary, I would give this island a solid 8... but if you love beaches, you won't find any here: there are only 2, very small ones, with sand imported from Morocco, everything else, rock and stones of volcanic origin... perhaps, with a couple of hours by ferry, you can get to Porto Santo where they tell me there is a long beach with very fine sand... but we didn't go there because we certainly don't have any shortage of it in the Algarve sea life...

Lovely starter levada walk - Very enjoyable tour with Avaro as our guide. A nice simple starter levada tour across a beautiful valley. A great hill hike without having to go up and down hills! Our guide was very amusing and gave us lots of information about the area and fauna. He was very cautious about how we should walk along the levada even though it was not difficult terrain even for those of us with knee and other walking issues. A perfect 5km walk in part shade and part sunshine. The only downside was the stop at the end at a cafe when I would rather have gone straight back to the hotel. Otherwise definitely worth doing this tour.