Full Day Tour to Nordeste

Cook@East

Jeep Safari Tour + Walking Trail + Cooking Lesson

ponta delgada tour, tours azores, sao miguel trips

Tour Description

This tour is for people that want to experience some of the oldest and almost lost local traditions like learning how do do the delicious "Queijo Fresco" while discovering some of the stories about the past of São Miguel island and enjoying a good piece of local bread with a slice of the cheese that you made. After this cooking lesson you can also have the possibility to know the cows that produce the milk for your cooking lesson also known for being some of the happiest cows in the world... Lunch, if you wish, will be at Nordeste the most flowery village of the island but before that we still have time to stop at one of the most magnificent natural parks you will ever see while in the Azores, full with lush vegetation and flashy waterfalls - Ribeira dos Caldeirões also one of the few places in the island where you can see how the locals produced flour on the old days in the restored water mills surround by the typical Portuguese water channels the "levadas". On a sunny day the ridge of Tronqueira's mountain (900m high and also one of the stages of (SATA Rally Azores) filled with typical Macaronesian endemic flora and rare and valuable fauna like the Azorean Bullfinch (Priolo) is a must do with a 4WD. Along the way many other belvederes gives you the chance to capture the beauty of the East like "Miradouro do Pôr-do-Sol" (Sunset Belvedere) where you can have an overview of Povoação Village known for being the first place in the island to be settled but also because of its much appreciated pastries the famous "Fofas da Povoação."

What's Included

Pick-up/Drop-off in your hotel or place you stay at (Ponta Delgada area and surroundings)
Natural Parks of Azores certified tour guide
Walking sticks
Comfortable 4x4 vehicle with A/C
Traditional Cheese Cooking Lesson