The tour begins in the southern part of the island with a visit to Vila Franca do Campo, the first capital of the island of San Miguel. Here you will learn more about the history of the Azores, and you can have a cup of coffee.

Then we move on to the most impressive part of the tour, to the Furnas, which is famous as the Grotto Valley. Here you will find a blooming garden with a lake and bubbling hot streams in the depths of a wide crater. Furthermore, we will visit the idyllic park of Terra Nostra, where exotic plants from the tropics and from the cold countries are mixed. Here you will have the opportunity to swim in the pool with water rich in iron and heated by the internal heat of the Earth.

In the afternoon we will visit Caldeiras, in the scorching pair of foundation pits of which the famous national dish “Cozido” is cooked. In the presence of tourists, the cooks extract it from the bowels of the earth and serve for lunch in one of the local restaurants.

After lunch, we will visit the valley of geysers and mineral waters. We will stop at the Pique de Ferro viewing point where you will have an opportunity to take spectacular pictures of the Grotto Valley from a bird’s eye view.

Further, the tour passes through the northern part of the island, where we will visit the Gorenan tea factory, where the only tea in Western Europe is produced. Let us stop at the observation deck of Santa Iria, from where a magnificent panorama of the northern coast of the island opens.

We leave Ponta Delgada to admire the northern coast of the island, drive past typical local villages and take beautiful photos on viewing platforms with charming views of the northeastern part of the island of San Miguel.

We will arrive in the city of Nordeste, where, by your choice, you can either try national cuisine in a local restaurant or enjoy a picnic on the observation platform “Ponta da Madrugada”.

We will return to Ponta Delgada through the picturesque first settlements of the island, Agua Retorta and Povoação, through the Grotto Valley of Furnas with its blooming nature, the cleanest lake and hot springs, and across the southern coast of the San Miguel island.

We leave Ponta Delgada and go to the southeastern part of the island, to a settlement called Faial da Terra. We will visit the village of Sanginnho, abandoned in the early 70s. We stroll through the forest, rich in exotic vegetation from five continents. In the middle of the trip we will stop at the “Salto do Prego” waterfall, where you can swim in the forest lake.