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Valley of the Nuns
In 1566 the nuns from the Santa Clara convent fled from pirates attacking Funchal and found seclusion here where they also brought…
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Up the path
We headed up the path toward the viewpoint overlooking the Valley of the Nuns.
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Eira do Serrado
We drove up to an altitude of 1094 feet. The view was beautiful. This was just from the parking lot!
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Circo Dallas
Back on the bus! Heading to our next stop. We spotted a travelling circus. We thought it was funny it was named Circo Dallas.
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Flea market
We can check out the flea market while we're waiting fro the bus.
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The city
You can see nearly the entire city from the cable car. The ride was nearly coming to an end.
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Video!
We took a video of part of the ride. To see it, click the photo or HERE.
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Houses and gardens
We could see in to everyone's back yards. They had some nice gardens, great houses, we even saw some people drinking coffee on the…
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Passing another car
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Here we go!
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Getting on!
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Cable car selfie!
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Cable car
This is the way to get all the way down the mountain. It's a very long cable car ride over the tops of the houses.
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Neat pic!
I just like the picture. To me it looks very Disney "World of Tomorrow" fron the 50's.
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Old olive trees
We walked past the toboggan baskets and saw these incredibly old olive trees. Neat!
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Back to the top
They loaded the toboggans on to a truck and drove them back to the top!
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Baskets end
We walked by the end of the basket ride. Where people were getting off the baskets.
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Back to the toboggans
We were kinda going in circles.
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Nice view
Headed to our newxt stop.
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Toboggans and cars
When we backed up there was a toboggan coming right for us with three cars behind it!
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Traffic jam
The roads are very narrow. We turned the corner and we were face-to-face with another bus. We had to back up.