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A walking guide to Madeira and Porto Santo, volcanic islands which bask in sunny solitude in the Atlantic Ocean, far removed from Europe and Africa. A popular holiday destination for decades, the islands now attract more adventurous travellers keen to walk and trek. This fully-updated second edition contains 60 routes which explore the dramatic cliff coastline, wander along level levada paths, penetrate dense laurisilva forests and traverse stone-paved paths from peak to peak in the high mountains. Now taking account of sweeping changes around modern-day Madeira, including the new network of underground road tunnels, the guide includes full information about bus routes and accommodation, food and drink along the walks. The guide offers a comprehensive introduction to Madeira and Porto Santo in 7 sections, lavishly illustrated with photographs and contoured maps, showing options for linking routes for longer treks, and almost 800km (500 miles) of walking on a variety of terrains
About the Author
Paddy Dillon is a guidebook writer, with over 40 books to his name, and contributions to 25 more. He has written for a number of outdoor magazines and appeared on radio and television. Paddy has visited Madeira several times over the years, exploring extensively and enjoying the vast variety of walking routes and landscape types around the islands.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
This book is really good. It gives an "idiots guide" to the levada walks, including some limited (but helpful) commentary on the plant life, architecture etc. The grading are helpful and the maps at least provide an overview of the routes.
Two pieces of advice, however:
1) The Madeiran/Portuguese government are currently renovating the levadas (2009-2010). For example, in August 2009, we turned up to the the Levada Nova route in this book only to find a 6km stretch of it is closed until Feb 2010 for repair. Based on this, I would always check with the Madeiran authorities what is open and what is not.
2) The book is good, but it's no substitute for a proper OS map. Inevitably, there are diversions due to maintenance work. The route descriptions in the book only work if you follow them perfectly, and the maps aren't detailed enough to be able to track your diversion and re-join the main route later. The book takes the hard work out of map reading, but I'd always still take a map just in case!
All together, worth having and definitely enhances the experience of our walks, though,
Two pieces of advice, however:
1) The Madeiran/Portuguese government are currently renovating the levadas (2009-2010). For example, in August 2009, we turned up to the the Levada Nova route in this book only to find a 6km stretch of it is closed until Feb 2010 for repair. Based on this, I would always check with the Madeiran authorities what is open and what is not.
2) The book is good, but it's no substitute for a proper OS map. Inevitably, there are diversions due to maintenance work. The route descriptions in the book only work if you follow them perfectly, and the maps aren't detailed enough to be able to track your diversion and re-join the main route later. The book takes the hard work out of map reading, but I'd always still take a map just in case!
All together, worth having and definitely enhances the experience of our walks, though,
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I had really high hopes and expectations to this book, as there are lots of excellent reviews on the internet, and it has been sold out earlier.
We did some of the walks recently on Madeira, and the book is very usefull and detailed.
None the less it was frustrating to discover that walks 46 to 51 was not in the book, and Walks 52-58 was printed twice.
We did some of the walks recently on Madeira, and the book is very usefull and detailed.
None the less it was frustrating to discover that walks 46 to 51 was not in the book, and Walks 52-58 was printed twice.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Rates well alongside other Madeira walking guides. I am a regular walker there and this will be of the five guides I will be using. Each guide has it's own strengths. The Dillon guide is good for more challenging walks. I had an old edition. The new edition has improved maps.
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