Magical Madeira: breathtaking mountain views
Hey there my Hive friends and followers!
It has been ages since I got to post something else than my regular contests (in fact, I often struggle to keep even those alive) and I hate to see my blog this dull and monotonous so I pushed myself to make some little room in my crazy real life schedule and finally post something different again. I still have a lot of unpublished photo material from a variety of cool locations and Madeira is one of them for sure. I even started this little photography series titled "Magical Madeira" but unfortunately, I only managed to post a couple of parts of it before falling silent for months.
Without further (awkward) ado, let me roll out another post dedicated to this spectacular Portuguese island called Madeira and this time, we will check out the island´s magnificent mountains. Actually, mountains cover most of the island´s area and we only got to visit a tiny little fraction of them but it was still an amazing hike and I totally enjoyed all the views that we were lucky to have. I said lucky because at these altitudes of more than 1,800 meters above the sea level, heavy clouds, fog and bad visibility are very common. But we were really lucky as we got some fantastic sunny weather that day. All the pictures that you will see below were taken by me from the top of (and around) Pico do Arieiro, the third tallest mountain on the island.
I hope you enjoyed the post, even tough it was mostly visual this time with not much of a write up. There are so many things I would love to write about - from the places that I visited in the past to updates on how we are taking on the big new challenge called parenthood. The current happenings in the world of crypto is another topic that I would like to cover and there also many amazing and creative challenges and initiatives hosted here on Hive that I would totally and eagerly join if... well, you know. Damn, I just realized that I didn´t even get to wish you guys Merry Christmas and Happy New Year before the holidays and I guess it´s a bit too late to do it now :/ It´s not just our lovely little daughter that has been keeping us occupied though. You know, things tend to pile up in life so there is more stuff that we need to take care of now, including moving to another city. But I don´t want to turn this post into a personal rant over a lack of time. This post is about the beauty of the astonishing Madeira mountains and I hope you liked it ;)
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These shots are lovely and the scenery are awesome
Thanks, glad to know that you enjoyed this post :)
Better sharing late than nothing mate. I have also started to write a long travel posts series, the places of which I visited in 2021 :)
Yes, I saw some, you got to visit really nice places back then :) I didn´t travel much in 2021 as it was during the pandemic period but I still have a lot of unpublished content from the times before and after covid.
The mountain scenery is always amazing and truly a beauty of nature. I like very much. I lived in the mountains for the whole of 2022 and enjoyed it very much.
Thanks for your feedback, living in the mountains may be hard from some perspective but it´s also a blessing in a way :) Glad that you enjoyed my post and your time in the mountains. Cheers!
A very beautiful place suitable for adventure travel. I immediately felt alive when i see your post.😃😃😃
Good to know that my post made you feel alive :) Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day!
That's all are beautiful cool click's. But these type of animals, insect's are scary. How you captured it?? Isn't it scary?
What insects are you talking about? The only animal featured in the photos is a lizard. It was a tiny little harmless lizard that let me take a close up picture of him as he was not afraid of my camera.
I'm talking about overall little creatures found at that type of places
High up in the mountains, there are not so many animals...
The shots are amazing and that lone lizard gosh
How were you able to get so close ?
Thanks :) Well, because he was not afraid :) He was just a few centimeters long though, he appears much bigger in the picture than he really was.
Oh that makes a lot of sense 😅😅
Forested mountains look unusual to me. Mountains are usually bare rocks. Very beautiful!
Yeah, that´s a good point. I loved how lush and green the mountains were on Madeira. It gives the impression of true wilderness that I like so much :) Thanks for checking out the pictures!
A fun adventure while aiming at the amazing nature
Right. Thanks for stopping by :)
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Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend! Really nice to see that people didn´t forget about my blog, even though it´s not as interesting as it used to be :) Yeah, Madeira is a lovely place and I hope you will get to visit it too, you will take tons of amazing pictures there :) Cheers!
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To byla vlastně Florinčina první zahraniční cesta :) Na Madeiru by se se svým jménem hodila. Musíme ji tam co nejdřív vzít ;) :*
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It is an incredible view and I'm happy the weather complied :)
I know it is busy now, but things will ease up with time and you'll get stronger to deal with even more. Happy new year and merry Christmas to you too ;)
Thanks mate! Cannot wait for the "eased up phase" but honestly, I don´t see it coming anytime soon :D :/
By going inside the mountains we get to see all such things that we find inside the forest and thus going to such a beautiful place on vacation gives one a lot of happiness and the mind relaxes a lot. These mountains look very beautiful.
Thanks for your creative and original comment as always. I´m glad that you enjoyed these photos :) Have a nice weekend!
Most welcome dear and have a great day.
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Magical indeed!
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Love the views 😊 such a stunning place. I will get there one day.
Thanks for the wishes!
Happy new year to you and yours too 👋🏻🎉
Hope all is well.
Thanks for your kind words and wishes, same to you! Still up there in the freezing North? :)
You are welcome @phortun 👋🏻😊
Thank you so much. Nope… I am in Ireland again. And guess what… I am packing boxes again 📦📦📦 hahaha !LOL
Have a great weekend.
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Of course you are! Little Bee, always on the move :D Safe travels, no matter where it will be :)
Hahaha thank you so much @phortun 😊 much appreciated!
Have a great weekend
Btw, just out of curiosity, how much stuff do you always carry with you? Cause you seem to be moving even more often than me when I was literally living out of the backpack :)
Hahaha I soooo wished it was just a backpack !LOL
It’s exactly 20m3… 86 boxes and 64 loose items to be precise… 🫣 lots of guitars and art stuff… next to a half furnished house. This is reduced over the years greatly. It got less and less hahaha 🤣
So it takes a while to pack and organise a full country move. With all needs to be listed every time.
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Whaat?! You literally transport an entire house when you move?! That´s crazy! I cannot even imagine... I´m a very organized person and all the chaos with packing/unpacking that much stuff would kill me! :D
Hahaha yep 🫣😇 I do.
It’s a lot of planning and organising every time. Can you believe that I am sooooo done with it all.
I soooo need to settle. It’s too much.
But hey, such is life. I can tell you, mine is anything but boring !LOL
We will get there one day. Every move is a step closer…
Have a great mid week @phortun 👋🏻
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Wow. So you hate all the chaos too but yet cannot help and keep on moving (literally :D) Well, let´s hope that one day you will find a destination where you will settle down :) Or another option would be getting rid of enough stuff so that your life will would into a backpack, then moving is pretty easy ;)
Have a nice week too!
Oh I so hate it, believe me. All my art materials from my art studio have been packed in boxes for 4 years. I haven’t been able to do any art I would like to. We never had space to start. If I wanted to unpack, a new move came up… but this time we said we stay years in the next place. I have a space for my art and can set up my art studio. 😊 so just that keeps me going… soon I am back doing the things I love. Being in raw nature in the forest. 🌳
So who knows… maybe, just maybe we stay there. Hahaha !LOL
My stuff never will fit in a backpack 🎒 sadly. Believe me we travel light. Just most of the time we had unfurnished places. So I have some furniture… we need it in the next place too.
Have a lovely Sunday 👋🏻😊
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So basically your urge to travel is stronger than the distaste for the (un)packing part of the process :) What is your next destination?
Yep it is. I love to travel and the adventure of it. Maybe I shouldn’t combine it with where to live hahaha 🤣
I will write posts along the way. We start Saturday with driving. It will be a month before we reach our destination. So another long road trip 🚘 For now I keep it a secret 🤐 maybe you can guess after seeing where we are heading 😁
Have a great new week!
One month on the road, wow... Sounds like South Africa or something :D Anyway, safe trip!
It will be epic 😉😎
Thank you.
Movers picked everything up this morning…
Saturday is the day we start driving 🚘
Have a great day, I will post tomorrow an update.
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Hello @phortun it's nice to see you come up with a post. Assuming a new role in life can be a little overwhelming but I am sure you are doing a great job.
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Thank you very much for your kind words and encouragement :) Greetings!
You are most welcome!
Marvelous shots! I even can't decide which I love more - with the clear blue sky with contrasting dark peaks, or where the mountain ranges descend and hide under the clouds.
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Aww, thank you! Actually, I had the very same issue haha :) I was supposed to pick one of those pictures for a photo contest in the Czech community and I really couldn´t decide which one :) Well, Madeira is too beautiful to have favorites :)
Can only agree ))
Krásne je to tam 😍 A nefúkalo? Mám pocit, že som niekde počula, že na Madeire veľmi fúka...
Už viete kde budete bývať? Držím palce, aby to prebehlo tak ľahko ako je to len možné 😊 Nabudúce, keď prídeme do Čiech, tak vás navštívime, keďže tam sme ešte neboli 😊
Stefan pozdravuje 😊
Na ostrovech obecně hodně fouká (a v Makaronésii většinou platí, že na severním pobřeží o dost víc než na jižním), ale my tam byli v létě, kdy fouká asi nejmíň z celého roku :) Ale třeba na sousedních Azorech jsme se několikrát fakt báli, že nám uletí střecha od baráku :D Tam jsme byli na zimu a foukalo fakt šíleně. Někdy se kvůli tomu nedalo ani spát.
Zatím nic ještě nic konkrétního nemáme, ale už nás začíná tlačit čas, tak snad už se to nějak pohne. Děkujeme a zdravíme zpět :)
Raz sa tam naozaj musím pozrieť 😊 No my máme vonkajšie žalúzie a nemusíme byť ani na ostrovoch, aby sme občas nemohli spať. Keď fúka, tak buchotajú tak, že ani štuple do uší nepomáhajú 😂
Tak to držím palce, nech niečo rýchlo nájdete. Ale tak pri najhoršom môžete chvíľu ostať pri rodine, či?
@borjan has also showed us different pictures of Madeira
I’d love to visit that place in the future
Nice pictures!
Well ... no 😃 My place is called Medulin. You can visit both in the future.
Ooh wow
Thanks for the correction
I guess he already answered :) Madeira is a subtropical island that belongs to Portugal. @borjan lives in Medulin, which is a town in Croatia.
Madeira is quite beautiful and has such stunning scenery. Would love to visit sometime. Thanks for sharing.
Quite beautiful to you, breathtakingly beautiful to me :) Thanks for swinging by. Cheers!
This Giant lizard is looking very dangerous and terrible view of it. Once I saw this in reality but grateful that it was dead.
Very nice views and such a clear clicks like I can touch these mountains.
That "giant lizard" was in fact just a few centimeters long, cute and totally harmless. Why would anyone be grateful to see it dead? You should have more respect and understanding for animals.
When I saw it first time, I was a child and villagers told about that,its poisonous like snake and can bite. I was still afraid of it.
Stunning photos! I was lucky to have visited Pico Areeiro and be able to see the clouds from above, love that landscape; last time I visited tough, I got the foggy-can't-see-crap experience... that's life! :) Cheers! !BEER
Thanks mate! Yeah we were really lucky. Btw I know way too well that "foggy-can´t-see-crap" situation, it happened to us countless times on the Azores! :D Cheers!
"foggy-can´t-see-crap" basically sums up the first time I've been in Açores, actually! :)
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BEERKING.As always, WHAT A VIEW! I love the photo with the group on top of the mountain and the one where you can see all the valleys below. Amazing photos, thanks for taking some of your busy time and sharing! xox
Thank you Ladybug! It really means a lot coming from one of the world´s best photographers of the Rockies :) The Madeira mountains would probably feel just like little hills to you but I love how green they are :) Btw glad to see you back here. I just wish I had time to read your posts properly as I usually just skim trough. There is one thing I noticed though. No more mentions of your man Silvergingerman. Is he alright?
Nedivím se, že jsi dlouho vybíral soutěžní fotografii. Taky bych s tím měl problém :-)
Většinou tenhle problém nemám, ale tentokrát jsem fakt váhal :) Dodatečně mě potěšilo, že Photography Lovers vybrali do své kolekce právě tu, kterou jsem přihlásil k tobě ;)
To potěší :-).
Bohužel, zatím to vypadá tak, že česká porota je jiného názoru.
Jak už jsem říkal několikrát, tohle už neřeším ;) Mně se ty fotky líbí a vrací mě do těch míst, to je to největší kouzlo.
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Vzpomínky, na krásné prostředí a chvíle, jsou asi ta největší výhra.
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Nice to see, I also posted about hiking in Madeira today PR8 Ponta de São Lourenço & hiking up Pico Ruivo. I haven't done the mountain in your post, although is looks similar to the climb of Pico Ruivo.
Just read it. Left my comment over there. Thanks for stopping by, fellow nomad :)
Wow, when I think of Madeira I already see images like out of a movie, that's what the photos you took on this spectacular island did to me.
Yes, I've been wanting to get to the capital of Funchal for a while, I'm already thinking about the beautiful beaches, the raw green vegetation, but I'm still dreaming.
Thanks for your kind feedback my friend, I´m glad that my posts from Madeira have inspired you to plan to visit the island :) Or at least to think about it ;) Funchal is a very nice town but it would be pity to restrict your visit only to that place. Literally every corner of the island is interesting. I can totally imagine living there for the rest of my life. Beautiful place with stunning nature, pleasant climate all year round, relaxed lifestyle, friendly people and delicious food ;)
You see that's exactly what I'm looking for, a place with a friendly temperature all year round (it's -5 degrees where I live now, brrrrrr), spectacular places to visit and of course friendly people.
Have a wonderful weekend my friend(all of you)😉
Thanks buddy :) It has been freezing here too. If only we could teleport to a place like Madeira right now :) Have a lovely weekend too!
The landscape of Madeira is spectacular, I imagine that if I see it like this from here, being able to get there and admire such grandeur and beauty will leave a few breathless.
I'm intrigued by those green things in the third photo...what are they?
Well said, thanks for your kind feedback :) I think those are some safety features to protect young trees or plants from the wind that is often pretty extreme up there :) But I may be wrong.
It makes sense, that could be it. 🙂 Thank you.
This is really a beautiful view I must confess
Thanks :)
You wrote it yourself...I was about to say that now you rarely write such posts. I enjoyed reading the post and yes above 1800 meters life is a bit different and exciting.
Rarely indeed but in the past, when I was doing Hive fulltime, I published many cool posts from my travels. Glad that you enjoyed this one, thanks for swinging by :)
@phortun Definitely if we liked your Blog, is that they are simply genius photographs, spectacular views, your technical mastery to capture the beauty that surrounded you is also outstanding. Good job my best wishes to you and your family in 2024.
Thank you very much for your kind words and wishes, I really appreciate it :) All the best in 2024 to you and your family too!
All the best to you too, best regards
Oh gosh, you really had the world on your feet for a moment, didn't you? 😇
Really love this kind of views which literally need no description as words would never be enough to capture everything 😁
Thank you Gabriela, it really means a lot coming from a mountain lover like you :) Yeah, enjoying the views from the top of a mountain is something you can never get tired of ;)
Esooo es precioso que isla 🏝️ más bonita y tus fotos están de ensueño, hermano está hermoso este contenido.
Muchas gracias amigo :)
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Tady někdo mrznul tak dlouho, až se mu začalo stýskat po teple :))
No, zrovna v těch 1800+ metrech to žádný pařák nebyl :) Dole na pobřeží ale bylo v té době okolo 30 stupňů (což je na Madeiru docela neobvyklé), tak to bylo fajn osvěžení...
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Those mountains look really beautiful and I can see you were not alone, there were some other hikers and even a lizard 😃🦎.
Aww, finally someone who can appreciate the little scaly friend that I made there :) Cannot believe what some people wrote in the comments here (that it looks dangerous, should be dead etc...) And yeah, the Madeira mountains are so beautiful. So lush and green, covered with waterfalls and other amazing creations my Mother Nature. You would love it there :)
What? They said that? 😳😒🤬😡😢 What's going on with those people? That lizard is much better and more beautiful than many of them.
I didn't know that Madeira has high mountains, they look like an amazing place to go hiking and enjoy nature 🏞️⛰️, far away from those stupid people that probably the only thing that enjoy doing is checking their smartphones 😒🤦🏻♀️
I'm sure I will enjoy them ⛰️🏃🏻♀️😃
"That lizard is much better and more beautiful than many of them."
Hehe, that´s exactly what I thought too ;) I actually often say that I like animals more than most people ;)
Yeah, Madeira is in fact extremely hilly. It´s a little island but the landscape goes from the sea level up to almost 2,000 meters over a distance of just a few kilometers. Crazy terrain but breathtakingly beautiful. Hikers paradise ;)
I say that I prefer animals to people since I was a little girl 😉 I have always said that and I am proud of that 😎 .
Oh, that's so nice ⛰️🏃🏻♀️beach and mountains in just one place 👍🏻
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