23 July 2008
The day started with breakfast on the balcony that we had walking up a mountain to some village to get the day before. Sunny and warm!
We then took the bus into Funchal (the capital of the island), wich was like going on a real life rollercoaster (you cant be scared of much to go in such busses), and stopped by the fruit and vegetabl
Funchal is an absolutely amazing city imo (this photo doesnt show it too well I'm afraid), with ocean on one side, high mountains on the other and it basks in sunshine as well as low cottonlike clouds
We took the most insane bus trip of my life, up over 1000m. to the mountains on a road that our travel guide had told us earlier that people had layed down in the middle of the tour bus and cried and
Sorta big drop oui. Wish I could show you a picture of the entire drop, you only see a tiny bit of it here.
We met the cutest dog ever on that road (luckily the road was not very trafficated so few cars), which seemed to live on the side of it. She followed us to the end of our destination <3
... Which was this place. The viewpoint over the Nun's Valley. INSANELY BEAUTIFUL PLACE! 500m++ straight down to the valley. Well worth the trip. We took like 23940932 pics. xD
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