Isolated
The village is very isolated and lives mainly on what it grows. They're supposed to have very good chestnuts and have an annual Chestnut Festival.
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 the convent treasure.
Up the path
We headed up the path toward the viewpoint overlooking the Valley of the Nuns.
Eira do Serrado
We drove up to an altitude of 1094 feet. The view was beautiful. This was just from the parking lot!
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.
Flea market
We can check out the flea market while we're waiting fro the bus.
The city
You can see nearly the entire city from the cable car. The ride was nearly coming to an end.
Video!
We took a video of part of the ride. To see it, click the photo or HERE.
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 their porch.
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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.