Faja de Lopo Vaz

Flowers everywhere

Very nice path lined with beautiful flowers started on the viewpoint with bbq picnic place and ended on the beach.

Secluded black volcanic beach

It's a steep slope getting down to the beach and even steeper coming back up [!], taking me 25 and 35 minutes respectively. But the beach is very quiet and there is a unspoilt vista of the Atlantic to...

One way down... One way out!

We loved this walking trail, known as PRC 04 (Flores). Essentially it is a long downhill hike (and later uphill on the return) from Pico Negro area to the shoreline of Ponta Lopo Vaz. The trail is an...

Incredible view of the coastline during the entire hike down from ~200 meters to sea level

There aren’t many hikes that have such an astonishing view of the ocean and the coastline throughout the entire hike. Depending how far you go after you reach the bottom, it’s 1-1.5 km in each directi...

Beach and molino stone

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Short but beautiful journey to visit the Fajã de Lopo Vaz, to which we access by a step-by-step road: in addition to its beach (half sandy, half rolled corners) among its abandoned c fields ...