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Madeira - 2009 Apr 20 - May 4

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Pico dos Barcelos
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Igreja in Santo Antonio 32.811281,-17.248664
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São Martinho
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Quebradas
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apparent gradient 1:9
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Cabo Girão
One evening we heard ecclesiastical music being broadcast over loudspeakers and we saw candles moving through the woods recalling the Ave Maria sequence in Disney's Fantasia. Roger followed the sound and it led him to the summit of the Cabo Girão promontory where stands the Capela de Nossa Senhora de Fátima (babel fish version). It was crowded with people taking part in a Peregrinação ao Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Fátima (babel fish on the pilgrimage and local copy).
Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Fátima
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next morning it looked like this. More Senhoras
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Health and Safety may not have visited the sugar cane factory but they have seen to it that live candles are forbidden within Portuguese churches. This outside stand is for burning candles
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A small room stands near the chapel. I believe it is the original 1931 chapel. Inside is this curious collection of wax (?) heads.
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Looking down the long flight of steps to Cruz da Caldeira. See this view in the opposite direction
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Encosta Cabo Girão
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Car park at eastern end of HPB site
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Roger with view
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Cabbage cultivation on Cabo Girao
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levada nearby
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MSC Lirica
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Once outside the neat HPB site, the local people tend their vertical gardens and pile up useful wood
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Terrace gardens with a view

Cruz da Caldeira
Levada do Norte
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just as the levada emerges from the tunnel
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the damage to the railing is probably not caused by vandalism but by falling rocks
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Igreja da Nossa Senhora dos Remédios in Quinta Grande

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