Good Morning guys Cayleigh and I got up really early this morning and are doing the Pico Arieiro
to Pico Ruivo hike this morning and we're super excited we got up here and the sun started to rise
and it is gorgeous so yeah enjoy this for a little bit and get some footage and then begin the hike
yeah it looks so beautiful here so something to note you actually can
drive all the way to the top of Pico Arieiro but this hike goes all the way to Pico Ruivo
we're really trying with these names which is the highest mountain here and you kind of walk along
this ridge line over it's just like so stunning the parking lot was full when we got here before 8
o'clock so make sure to come nice and early if you can for those of you who are new to the channel
I'm David I'm Cayleigh and we run a travel and adventure blog called Made to Travel
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along with lots of hiking this hike is one of the most popular ones you can do on Madeira
and it is about 11 kilometers long and 1100 meters of elevation gain so
it's rated as hard but it's really beautiful it looks like it's really well maintained so far
they have like a rock path with railings along some of the river ridges which is nice the views
are just phenomenal looks like we got ourselves a tunnel yeah heading through the mountain i guess
better than up and over hey
so we're on what we think is the final ascent up to Pico Ruivo at first we thought that we went
up and down this peak in the middle to Torres yeah but what actually happened is that there
there's like a series of four or five maybe even six tunnels along the side of the mountain and a
trail and it's actually all in the shade so you drop down here which is quite an elevation drop
lots of stairs not looking from there through a whole bunch of tunnels and we didn't gain too much
or drop too much and now we're going up Ruivo so yeah it's not as bad as we thought it was going to
be no it's been decent so far going back up on the other side is going to be hella hard yep and we
haven't run into too many people considering it's a Saturday yeah it's been pretty nice and quiet so
now we start the steep incline to the top see at the top last few steps
it's pretty cool it's like definitely 360 views up here it looks like there's three different
viewing platforms which is awesome
we made it it is so beautiful up here i think this is like one of the most beautiful hikes we've ever
done a lot of the photos and videos we saw had cloud inversions happening but we have a clear day
which is phenomenal we can see the ocean behind us in front of us and the rest of the island all
the way around the island today like you can see ocean yeah on all sides it's pretty beautiful
pretty incredible i would say it's a super nice trail it's not what we're used to we're used to
starting at the bottom hiking up the dirt path to the top of a mountain but like this one it's
basically uh a rock pathway the entire way with like railings and staircases and tunnels and
it's it's just exceptional it's kind of nice too the elevation gain sounds intimidating
close to 1200 meters i think it's 1180 or something like that um but it's pretty split up
so at the beginning you go down quite a bit and then you hike probably half half the elevation
at the end on the way here and then we're gonna hike the other half on the way back so we'll let
you know how we're feeling after that but on the way here it was really nice there's a tea house
here yeah and you can also camp which is really neat if you're into doing a sunrise hiking trip
which i would definitely be into but yeah no tent this time some sort of a multi-day hike here would
be cool too because there's tons of pathways that go like every which way up here that follow
the ridges there's a lot of infrastructure too like the tea house has solar panels a generator
a washroom we haven't been in there but just been walking by it's pretty crazy so Cayleigh and i are
just on our way down the clouds are rolling in fast and heavy along with people so you can see
behind me there's going to be no view in a little while so we are happy to get down and get out of
here i think it's supposed to rain this afternoon we looked at the forecast that's what it said so
time to get out nice and dry
we just started the stairs back up and we're dying well i'm dying already
but look at this mountain looks like a nose
and then the green is the moustache and then the lips underneath what's the green the moustache
you weren't pointing at the mountain we were just about back to the parking lot such a cool hike
such a cool hike that last little bit actually wasn't as bad as i was anticipating it to be
but it was still quite a grind yeah um the clouds are rolling in definitely recommend doing this on
a clear morning it's very cool with the clouds but you definitely don't have the same views
yeah i would highly recommend a sunrise hike if you're a sunrise height kind of person this would
be like stunning you'd avoid all the crowds we ran into three or four tour groups of like 15 people
and these trails are not wide so it was a pain you have to kind of get over and stop and let people
pass which is an ideal so doing it on a weekday when no one is around definitely recommend it yes
but yeah overall definitely i think Pico Arieiro to Pico Ruivo was our favorite hike
probably yeah this is it's only our second hike but the most unique hike
ever like it's just it's so beautiful we would highly highly highly recommend it
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