Full Day Private Tour West & East in São Miguel Island

Begin with a pickup from your hotel by our driver and guide. Get ready for a great 6-7 hour experience. Decide what to see and do what interests you most. As you travel, your local guide will provide live commentary and recommendations, helping you make the most of your trip.Travel at your own pace and go on an adventure. You will then be dropped-off at your hotel at the end.

Sete Cidades is best known for its Green an Blue Lakes, that are located inside a huge volcanic crater. You will be able to visit the viewpoints of Vista do Rei, Boca do Inferno, Cerrado das Freiras, Lagoa de Santiago and Lagoa do Canário. If you wish so, our Guide can take you on a small hike around the Green Lake.

The Lagoa do Fogo is a Nature Reserve that occupies a central position on the island, and is one of the highest points.
We will visit the viewpoints of Bela Vista, Pico da Barrosa and others along our route.

This is the oldest, and currently the only, tea plantation in Europe. Here you can taste the amazing tea and go on a tour to the plant and see how is the manufacturing process.

Furnas is a hotbed for geothermal activity and has powerful, Jurassic-looking landscapes.
Here you can enjoy relaxing hot springs, hiking around volcanos, and eating food cooked using just the earth’s geothermal energy.

This Romantic-style botanical garden was built in the 18th and 19th centuries and is one of the most popular sites on the Island of São Miguel, visited by both locals and foreign visitors who are attracted by the chance to bathe in the geothermal swimming pool, and marvel at the magnificent views and the variety and riches of the exotic vegetation.

The Nossa Senhora da Paz Sanctuary, towering above the beautiful Vila Franca do Campo village, once the capital of the wonderful São Miguel Island, is a lovely temple of the Azores Archipelago.
The present temple dates from the 18th century and would have been built over a previous one, probably dated from the 16th century, built with an effort of the population that wanted to honour the Virgin, as in this place a shepherd once found an image of her.
During the disturbed times of the pirate attacks of the coast, the populations had a great faith in the power of this sacred temple, as it was said that it provided protection to all the believers.

Temple of great beauty, this is one of the most famous of the region, even because of the wonderful landscape that can be seen from here, constituting this Nossa Senhora da Paz Mount one of the most privileged viewpoints of the village and its surroundings.