Sorted by how high they take you, because on Madeira that is what actually decides what a day feels like. Only one of these breaks the cloud line.
A Nossa IlhaBoarding pass
NI 37
Departure
FUN
Funchal
Highest point
ENC
Encumeada
Photograph by Stephen Colebourne · CC BY 2.0
The ocean half.
The ocean half of the island. Cliff road out of Funchal, the north coast in the afternoon, and a swim in volcanic rock if the sea allows it.
A Nossa IlhaBoarding pass
NI 71
Departure
FUN
Funchal
Highest point
ARE
Pico do Areeiro
Photograph by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 3.0
The mountain half.
The mountain half. We start early enough to be above the clouds before the light goes flat, then come down through laurel forest to the far eastern point.
Half day
The city from above itself.
Price
25 €pp
NI 76 · TOW–VIE
Half day
Four hundred years of terrace.
Price
80 €pp
NI 96 · FUN–TER
Evening
What the island actually eats.
Price
30 €pp
NI 87 · CEN–TOW
