Four hours from Paris, Madeira is an obvious choice too often forgotten.
You walk along the levadas, those irrigation channels turned into trails, through the Fanal forest and its thousand-year-old laurels lost in the mist. You climb Pico do Arieiro for a sunrise above a sea of clouds. You swim in the natural pools of Porto Moniz.
And in the evening, Funchal: poncha, espetada and sunset over the Atlantic.
A perfect destination for a first tailor-made journey — and Élyne knows the island for having walked it.
