{"id":83,"date":"2010-04-17T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2014-07-23T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T19:31:08","slug":"madeira-2010-day-8-levada-do-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/2010\/04\/17\/madeira-2010-day-8-levada-do-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeira 2010, day 8, Levada do Pa\u00fal"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 17. Good weather at the hotel, but we went up to the mountain plateau Pa\u00fal da Serra. Here it was misty and only 6 degrees (Celcius). We parked below the Senhor da Montanha monument where Jesus appeared throught the mist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He is 6 tons heavy and made of white marble.<\/p>\n

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There are more religious symbols below his knoll. Here are the loaves of bread and the fish, also made\u00a0of white marble. But isn’t there one loaf too many?<\/p>\n

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Levada do Pa\u00fal crosses the road a couple of hundred meters below the monument. It runs 1300 meters above the sea and gathers water from the great plateau Pa\u00fal da Serra. This high\u00a0nature seems barren,\u00a0the reason being centuries of\u00a0misuse of the forests (I wrote something about the reforestation project here<\/a>).\u00a0There was also a fire here some years ago. The yellow bushes are furze, beautiful but fierce with thousands of hard, long and sharp thorns.<\/p>\n

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We were not\u00a0the only wanderers on the levada path.<\/p>\n

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Here is an ancient stone paved road crossing the levada.<\/p>\n

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Some way after the road crossing you can\u00a0walk a short path up onto a mountain top with a stunning wiew of the great valley. If you turn around you can admire this magnificent mountain wall.<\/p>\n

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Shortly afterwards it started to rain and we turned back to the car. On our way back home over the\u00a0plateau we had a break at the bizarre bar\/restaurant\/hotel Jungle Rain Cafe.<\/p>\n

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The interior is supposed to make you feel\u00a0like being in the\u00a0jungle.<\/p>\n

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It is an internet cafe too.\u00a0However, Gunilla didn’t manage to send her mail. Bad communication due to the rain, the waiter said. The fake tree is asleep at the moment.<\/p>\n

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Even the chairs have tails.<\/p>\n

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When we got back to the hotel, ants had created their own walking trail on the kitchen wall. What now?<\/p>\n

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Well, they had found a package of\u00a0yummy crackers. I hope they enjoyed them to the full, because shortly the cleaning maiden entered with her largest spray bottle and spoiled the fun.<\/p>\n

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April 17. Good weather at the hotel, but we went up to the mountain plateau Pa\u00fal da Serra. Here it was misty and only 6 degrees (Celcius). We parked below the Senhor da Montanha monument where Jesus appeared throught the mist.\u00a0 He is 6 tons heavy and made of white marble. There are more religious … Continue reading Madeira 2010, day 8, Levada do Pa\u00fal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}