Madeira - Rother – Goetz Rolf (2024)

Explore Madeira with a hiking guide that will take you through traditional levadas and breathtaking trails. * The most beautiful routes through the mountains and along the levadas. * The hiking guide offers 70 detailed routes. * The difficulty of each route is color-coded (easy = blue, medium = red, hard = black). * Detailed hiking maps at scales of 1:25,000 and 1:200,000. * Clear elevation profiles. * GPS data available for download. ***** With our hiking guide, you can embark on a journey to discover the magical island of Madeira, also known as the 'island of flowers in the Atlantic.' This practical publication will guide you through the fascinating world of traditional irrigation channels winding across the island. Thanks to them, you can easily explore even the most mysterious corners of Madeira without the need to overcome significant elevation differences. More than half of the hiking routes in the publication run along the levadas, through fertile areas full of sugar cane, bananas, and vineyards, and around terraces reminiscent of Indonesian Bali. On your journey, you will encounter roaring waterfalls, gorges, steep cliffs, and mountain peat bogs. You will explore subtropical vegetation of laurel forests and heathlands so dense that you will feel like you are in an emerald tunnel.