Always Madeira

Bird of Paradise - "Strelitzia reginae" Around the word this beautiful flower is associated with Madeira Island but its origin is from South Africa.

Perhaps because it appears on many postcards or because we have a huge amount of these all over the Island, sometimes next to the houses, public gardens or even up tp 400 meters high is some areas.

when you book a tour with Always Madeira 4x4 you guarantee a tour away from the crowds! Some highlights as Cabo Girão (skywalk), Porto Moniz rock pools, or Seixal the black sand beach can be a little busy depending on the time we get there but during the tour we chose alternative routes like this one, through remote places to enjoy the real Madeira and you get to know the Island like a local.

When i heard or read ate the beginning this vehicle returned to the road that the car had many stories, yeas it is true it had many stories since 1983, but i could only remenber these ones! We will release some videos of this recovery/restoration process of this portuguese vehicle UMM - Cournil that was condemmed to scrap. In this video special thanks to my father and my brother, without my father this project never have gone ahead.

Leaving Funchal we start this 5 hours customized shore excursion tour. Our customers were on Sun Princess (cruise ship) and being the first time on the Island they would like to explore some Laurissilva Forest - UNESCO World Heritage Then we drove to the northeast and explored this fantastic off-road and the customers had the courage to cross this tunnel with a water channel (Levada) as many of our ancestors used in some areas as a shortcut to pass from on side of the mountain to the other and they loved it.

Calla Lily - "Zantedeschia aethiopica"

The Madeiran people are proud to live in this paradise so it is very common to see various types of flowers around their houses in pots or gardens, but because Madeira is a garden these flowers also grow naturally in our mountains up to an altitude of 800 meters. At the end of September and beginning of October we started to see these beautiful flowers blooming in our forests.