---
title: Madeira
date: 2025-02-16
license: "CC-BY-SA:4.0"
comments: true
icon: 🏝️
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tags: ["madeira", "travel"]
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Photos from my trip to Madeira in February 2025.

## Porto Moniz

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<Picture caption="Panorama from Porto Moniz towards Seixal" src={MAX_0447_Panorama} alt="Panoramic view of Madeira’s coastline, large rocks in the water, blue mountains in the distance"/>
<Picture caption="People fishing in Porto Moniz" src={MAX_0463} alt="Three people standing in the harbor fishing in front of a red car"/>

## Levada Nova Hike

<Picture caption="Maidenhair fern, Adiantum Capillus-veneris, is one of my favorite plants, it is very widespread" src={MAX_0354} alt="Close-up of a green maidenhair fern"/>
<Image src={PXL_20250209_132548610} alt="Standing on a metal platform in the mountains"/>
<Image src={PXL_20250209_133848550} alt="Standing in front of a waterfall"/>

## Seixal

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<Picture caption="Misty mountain peaks over Seixal" src={MAX_0369} alt="Foggy, densely forested mountain peaks rising high above each other"/>

## Hike around the Pico Areeiro

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<Image src={PXL_20250211_181321910} alt="Curvy road between red, earthy hills"/>

## Hike around Porto da Cruz

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## Whale watching

<Picture caption="A young humpback whale practicing jumps for mating season off the coast of Calheta" src={MAX_0646} alt="Humpback whale breaching out of the water"/>

While traveling, I enjoy photographing plants that catch my eye. Here are some pictures of interesting plants I saw on Madeira. To identify them, I used the app [PlantNet](https://identify.plantnet.org/en).

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  <Image src={plant1} alt="Dracaena reflexa (Song of India)"/>
  <Image src={plant2} alt="Oxalis pes-caprae (Bermuda buttercup)"/>
  <Image src={PXL_20250212_144259621} alt="Oxalis purpurea (Purple woodsorrel)"/>
  <Image src={PXL_20250212_154036484} alt="Bituminaria bituminosa (Pitch trefoil)"/>
  <Image src={PXL_20250209_125919043} alt="Galactites tomentosus (Purple milk thistle)"/>
  <Image src={PXL_20250209_134733435} alt="Sonchus fruticosus (Tree dandelion)"/>
  <Image src={PXL_20250209_174719071} alt="Persicaria capitata (Pink knotweed)"/>
  <Image src={PXL_20250209_175134355} alt="Rhaphiolepis bibas (Loquat)"/>
  <Image src={PXL_20250211_151038493} alt="Psidium cattleyanum (Strawberry guava)"/>
  <Image src={PXL_20250212_142920774} alt="Tecoma stans (Yellow trumpetbush)"/>
  <Image src={PXL_20250212_153335886} alt="Roldana petasitis (Velvet groundsel)"/>
  <Image src={PXL_20250212_161706087} alt="Bidens pilosa (Spanish needle)"/>
  <Image src={PXL_20250212_163000971} alt="Crassula multicava (Fairy crassula)"/>
  <Image src={PXL_20250209_173041299} alt="Some kind of liverwort, possibly Targionia lorbeeriana"/>
  <Image src={plant3} alt="Aeonium canariense (Canary Island aeonium)"/>
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