![]() Dolphin- and whale-watching trips are widely available. There are also waterfalls and volcanic springs to plunge under and into. In August, the sea temperature can reach 23C, but given this is the Atlantic, the water is cold for much of the year. Swimming “pools” dot the shoreline of all the islands: sometimes ladders hang on the edge of rocks, some can be accessed directly from the shore, and others are in little harbours. There are beaches across the Azores, but since these are volcanic islands the sand is dark or the shore is rocky. Beaches, swimming, dolphin- and whale-watchingĪ natural ocean swimming pool, Poça dos Frades, in Velas, São Jorge. Pico makes the more well-known wines but Biscoitos, on Terceira, has a similar landscape and also produces great stuff. Try them at Pico Wines, a cooperative, or at the Azores Wine Company, which recently opened an architecturally impressive winery with views across the squares of dry-stone corrais that comprise the vineyards. The most famous Azorean wines are from Pico, an island dominated by Mount Pico. These conditions provide distinctive salty notes. What the Azores produces is astonishing: not just for its quality but because the vines are grown in seemingly inhospitable cracks in rocks and hardened lava, buffeted by winds and storms. The town of Angra do Heroísmo on Terceira and the landscape of Pico’s vineyard culture are Unesco world heritage-listed sites. Tea and coffee are grown here, as well as pineapples. Lots of rain makes for a lush landscape with many waterfalls and hot springs. The new tool is also made available to travelers departing from geographic points other than the Portuguese territory, in version adapted to the epidemiological situation of each country of origin.The weather can vary even across a day, with locals (about 245,000 residents) often calling each other to find out where on an island the sun is. When passengers complete the Risk Assessment and Early Detection Questionnaire they receive a code generated by the application, that can be presented at the airport, making the circulation process easier and faster.Īssim, passengers arriving in the Region with a screening test done and a negative result attached to the platform, previously validated by the Health Delegation, can present the code and leave the airport.įor passengers taking the screening test upon arrival, the process is also faster, since your data is automatically integrated. Through this tool, passengers can schedule their SARS-CoV-2 test using the RT-PCR method on 72 hours before departure, in laboratories agreed with the Region in mainland Portugal and in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, pre-fill and send the Risk Assessment and Early Detection Questionnaire and, ainda, attach the negative result to your individual file. This solution, available in HTTPS://, allows to materialize, in a single interaction and in advance, all the steps that the traveler must follow on his arrival in the Region. From now on all travelers wishing to disembark in the Azores have the tool 'My Safe Azores', which makes the health control process on entering the archipelago easier and faster and contributes decisively to its dematerialization.
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