Azores Tour

Azores Tour

The Azores Tour is a tour to four of the nine islands of the Azores where you will learn about their culture, taste the local gastronomy, walk on their topical trails and enjoy the Azorean pace of life.

The Azores is a Portuguese archipelago, located in the Atlantic Ocean, 2750miles (ca. 4,426 km) from Washington, or 6 hours with a direct flight from Boston if you’re coming from that part of the globe.

In spite of being a Portuguese territory, due to its peculiar location, it was quite isolated until not too long ago when the flights became more affordable. It developed a unique culture in the context of Portuguese heritage.

Nowadays, the Azores are considered a hidden jewel that will be discovered by the world in the coming years. So, now more than ever is the right moment to visit these unspoiled islands.

São Miguel, Pico, São Jorge, and Faial are the islands selected for this tour and the reasons are easy to understand.

Diversity: each island has its own landscape and architectural signature, specific Portuguese accent, a wide variety of gastronomic delicacies and very different kind of walking trails in between them so, ultimately it adds value to the tour.

Proximity: three of the four selected islands are very close to each other, which leads to short transfer time in between islands and the fourth and major island of the Azores, is easily accessible by plane with frequent international and domestic flights.

Cost efficiency: São Miguel, one of the selected islands, has the major landing and departing airport of the archipelago, with more international flights allowing higher flexibility and lower flight rates which will positively contribute to the total tour’s value.

Not cold and not too warm is how one can define the temperature during most of the times in the Azores.

The locals will tell you that you will have the four seasons in one day, meaning that from cold weather to sunshine and warm to some spring breeze, all is possible in one single day.

To have a green landscape means also to have some rain once in a while. However, it doesn’t take too long until it returns to a sunny nice day again.

During the Azores Tour there will be a possibility to visit a pineapple plantation, taste nice guavas, learn about the tea production and taste they local Atlantic fishes like the tuna fish.

Join us for a memorable tour.

The marina of Faial Island, Azores, Portugal

Highlights of the Azores Tour

Visit volcanic lagoons with different colors.

Learn about pineapple plantations and their greenhouses.

Explore volcanic caves and tunnels.

Walk in tea plantations and learn about tea production.

Swim in hot springs, both in the sea and in freshwater lagoons.

Enjoy scenic walks along the coast and luxing woods.

Taste a fish soup that will stay in your memory.

The Azorean gastronomy with its red pepper paste, unique cheeses, free-range cows, tropical fruits all mixed with European influences gets to be tastefully peculiar.

Explore the landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture as a UNESCO World Heritage.

Climb to the Portuguese highest pick – optional.

Moinho do Frade (Friar’s Windmill) at Pico Island, in the Azores Islands, Portugal

Characteristics

Daily walks on the Azores Tour: You will find a tour with a balanced mix of urban walks, guided tours to museums and plantations, industrial sites, and some easy unpaved walks in the countryside. On average, all in all, you can walk five to eight miles per day. Options, for shorter walks or to stay at the hotel, are to be expected. Along the tour, some days are busier than others and you can join the group or stay in the hotel and enjoy the accommodations.

Other activities: guided visits to monuments, museums, farms, and industrial sites, lava caves, wine tastings, a handicraft workshop, ferryboats transfers, and opportunities for leisure time.

Meals: all breakfasts are in the hotels, lunches are a balanced mix of small local restaurants or picnics and dinners are planned to be in the hotel or in local restaurants depending on the specific situation.

Transportation: a mix of van transfers, three ferryboat transfers, and two plane transfers.
Small groups: from 2 up to 6 people.

In 15 days tour, you have included: 14 overnights, 14 breakfasts, 14 lunches, all guided tours of the program and so much more and all transfers during the tour consisting of two flights in between islands, two ferry boat tickets and all land transfers of the program overnights, 14 breakfasts, 14 lunches, all transfers in tour, all guided tours of the program and so much more.

Azores Tour Itinerary

To learn more about the Azores Tour Detailed Itinerary access here.

A day-by-day program to inform you about the tour, what you will see and the hotels where you are going to be lodged.

Hot spring Caldeira Velha in São Miguel Island Island, Azores, Portugal

Weather

Please check the weather forecast for the month of July on the several tour’s locations.

Ponta Delgada (São Miguel) – click here,   Madalena (Pico) – click here,   Velas (São Jorge) – the same as Madalena,   Horta (Faial) – click here