If you go to Madeira, order it in a couple of hours by car, allowing for an incredibly rich network of tunnels, without which it would be a multi-day trip because it is mountainous. It is worth going to Cabo Girao, a 590-meter-high cliff from which the view of the sea is incredibly heavenly. Also to the highest peaks, where the mountain climate, vegetation, herbs and the beautiful view over the clouds. (1862 m Pico Ruivo, 1818 m Pico de Areiro accessible by car)
When you go a little lower, you will be surprised by the ever-presently tumultuously growing, hydrangeas, orchids, shrimps, hibiscus, laurel forests, eucalyptus ... It's the Atlantic Botanical Garden. You can of course go to the local beautiful historical botanical gardens. It is incredible the spectrum of all plants and, of course, it also concerns crops. And that's what we're getting to our topic. They grow here from Central European, Mediterranean to tropical fruits and vegetables. The production of the vineyards is for the production of Madeira wine, that is the wine of the port tip, which does not like to hear. In the market you can, like me, melt over tropical fruits of all kinds. I have never seen so many kinds of maracuja and other crops unknown to me which cheerfully ejected my ego, which she thought would have been something to jump. Madeira has its maracuja punch. Also, in the fish part of the market, you can perfectly view the terrible -looking deep-sea escape fish found in each restaurant. It has excellent white meat and fishers are fishing on a line of several thousand meters deep. The lively music, mysterious as a dream, becomes a whole market.
In the restaurants you will enjoy the delicious local bread, cacao with garlic butter (originally made from curd, recipe here ), seafood of all kinds, and when you get tired, try the espeedade , meat roasted on laurel spelled. For dessert or just in the coffee test was chábom (bolo de mel) honey cake full of gingerbread spices, orange peel, Madeira wine, nuts, ...
