In the autumn of 2006 Edwin and I visited Madeira, which is also called the island of eternal spring. And indeed, even in this season flowers were excessively blooming. What I remember most are the totally different and magnificent landscapes of this island. For example on the one hand there was the south-eastern peninsula Ponta de Sao Laurenco which was dry, barren and rough and on the other hand there was the mountain top of Pico d'Ariero above the clouds with it's high peaks and deep valleys . Wonderful!

Next to the Madeira wall lizard and the Madeira chaffinch it was mostly flora to be admired. The botanical garden in Funchal gives a real good impression of all the plants and flowers of the island. When you go to this botanical garden you must pay a visit to the so-called 'love cave'. If you take a close look you'll notice all the wall lizards climbing into the flowers of the bushes near this love cave. We spend many hours there trying to take a good picture of this lizard sitting on the red flowers. In the meantime we enjoyed the wonderful view.

To cut a long story short: if you like flowers, plants, walking, and rough landscapes you definitely must go to Madeira!