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Sao Miguel
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Sao Miguel is the main island of
the archipelago, here there is the major town, Ponta Delgada that has his own
university. The town isn't very attractive and quite chaotic, but the island is
wonderful. It is necessary to hire a car to really enjoy the stay because the
island is very large and full of magnificent places to visit. There is a lot of
lagoons and waterfalls. At Septe Citade, an idyllic place into an ancient
volcanic caldera, there are two adjacent lakes: green and blue Lagoon, that are
really superb.
There is also a lot of thermal lakes and sources, the
best are in Furnas and at Caldeira Veja. Here you can take splendid
relaxing thermal baths, at Furnas in a pool within a park near the Hotels, at
Caldeira Veja in a natural lagoon under a thermal waterfall within a forest,
it's really superb, impossible to describe!! At Ribeira Cuente (hot river), a little village of fishermen with a beach, Plaja
do Fogo (fire beach)
is a fantastic place where the thermal warm water sprigs under the sand and also under the sea near
the water line, so, if you are so lucky to find the right place, you can have a
tepid thermal bath in the ocean, you must try
to understand! The coast road to Nordeste, the more wild zone of the island,
worth the journey, there are a lot of superb landscapes, take a stop at the
Miradouros (panoramic points built for the Sunday picnics of Azoreans).
You can also visit the tea cultivations, taste and buy the different teas at Cha
Goreana.
I suggest you to avoid the Hotels in the township, try rather the "turismo
do habitação" (hospitality in country houses), I have tried the "Casa
do Monte" not far from Ribeira Grande and Ponta Delgada, and it was superb,
I have found it on the web
. You can have
also a whale watching trip in Sao Miguel with Futurismo.
Useful addresses
For an exhaustive list of accommodations take a look at the official site
of Azores Tourist Office http://www.drtacores.pt/ingl/smi/smi.htm
 | Hotel Gaivota Av. Marginal 103 phone (351) 296302510 fax
296302519 http://www.hotelgaivota.com
e-mail: info@hotelgaivota.com |
 | Hotel De S. Pedro Largo Almirante Dunn phone (351) 296301740 fax
296301744 |
 | Casa das Calhetas Rua da Boa Viagem - Calhetas 9600 RIBEIRA GRANDE Tel:
296 498120 Fax: 296 498199 Casa
das CalhetasE-Mail: e.regogonzalez@mail.telepac.pt |
 | Casa do Monte (Turismo Habitação) Estrada Regional, 2 Stº António
Além Capelas 9545 CAPELAS Tel: 296 298144 Fax: 296 989344 |
 | Hotel Terra Nostra *** 79 Quartos 156 Camas R. Pe. José Jacinto
Botelho, 5 9675 FURNAS
Tel.: 26 584133 / 296 584334 Fax: 296 584304 http://www.bensaude.pt
E-mail: info@bensaude.pt. Magnificent
location inside the Terra Nostra Garden, if you stay at the Hotel you can
take thermal bath in the lake also at night, when the Garden is closed, in
absolute loneliness. |
 | Restaurante "Monte Verde" Rua de Areia 9600 Ribeira Grande
phone 298472975, may be the best fish restaurant in Sao Miguel. |
 | Restaurante Aguas Quentes Furnas phone/fax 296584482. A simple
but very good and cheap restaurant. You have to try the Cozido nas Caldeiras,
a very special meat and vegetables soup directly cooked into a
volcanic blowhole. |

A thermal bath in Terra Nostra pool, Furnas |
The thermal fall and pool in Caldera Veja |
Lagoa do Fogo
|
Tea gardens at Cha Goreana
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Have a good stay.
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