Madeira Press Kit - Associação de Promoção da Madeira

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• Climbing Climbing Madeira’s volcanic origins and its rugged mountainous relief are a guarantee of adventurous moments. To summit the impressive and magnificent mountains bursting directly from the sea is a memorable conquest for any climber worth his salt. The favoured areas for climbing are the central mountain range, the sea cliffs and some of the northern cliffs. • Trekking Trekking Madeira’s challenging terrain and mountainous environment typical are a route-planner’s delight. Beautiful landscapes provide the opportunity for deep contact with nature. The northern and the central mountain range are perfect areas for this kind of activity. • Cycling Cycling Discover the pleasures of riding a bicycle along Levadas and unpaved roads, through forest and mountains, making the best of the friendly landscape. • Orienteering Orienteering Madeira’s distinctive, mountainous terrain and the rich diversity of the landscape make it a unique challenge for even the most experienced orienteering enthusiasts. Madeira has been developing its facilities for this sport in the last few years and already has a selection of maps and a large number of fans. The archipelago’s mild climate and excellent hotels have been attracting lots of orienteers from different countries, particularly from Northern Europe, for whom the island is the ideal spot for training. • Paragliding Paragliding Paragliding / Hanggliding anggliding anggliding Madeira offers the best flying sites all over Europe during the wintertime. Numerous flying sites are available. The flying sites on Madeira offer you flights throughout the year without stress above a unique environment and beautiful landscape.
Your local paragliding guide gives you a selection of the flying sites available and organises all transportation to the take-offs and landings. • Birdwatching Birdwatching Madeira Archipelago offers excellent conditions to birdwatchers, not only in terms of breeding birds but also vagrants. Though there are only 43 confined breeding species, 21% are endemic species and subspecies to Madeira and 33% to Macaronesia. One of the most interesting features of birding in Madeira is the number of endemic subspecies (6 restricted to Madeira and 13 common to Macaronesia islands). For some birdwatchers the ornithological highlights are the striking Chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs madeirensis) and the darker Barn Owl (Tyto alba schmitzi). However, the seabirds are a major attraction for the birdwatchers because there are several colonies of world importance. In our archipelago we can find 8 breeding species namely the rare Pterodromas and the Macaronesia subspecies: Little Shearwater (Puffinus assimilis baroli) and the White-faced Storm petrel (Pelagodroma marina hypoleuca), being these species confined to Selvagens. It is possible to observe on our waters visitors like Great Shearwaters (Puffinus gravis), Wilson's Storm-petrel (Oceanites oceanicus) or Storm Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus). In Madeira we can find three endemic species, the Long-toed Pigeon (Columba trocaz), the Firecrest (Regulus madeirensis) and the Zino's Petrel (Pterodroma madeira) and 4 species further, restricted to Macaronesia, Fea's Petrel (Pterodroma feae), the Canary (Serinus canaria), the Berthelot's Pipit (Anthus bertheloti)and the Plain Swift (Apus unicolor). • Horseriding Horseriding If you want to do horseback riding on the island, there is a very good riding association (open from Tuesday to Sunday) to turn to for more information, which is the Associação Hípica da Madeira (address: Quinta Vila Alpires - Caminho dos Pretos – Funchal). This association provides several training levels and organizes riding tours in the area.
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