Lagoa do Fogo

As you can see now I'm living on a very, very green island. Well, actually Sâo Miguel (Açores Islands) is known as "The Green Island". I´ll stay here for some months, so you can have an idea of the kind of pictures I'll be posting :P

Here I show you one of our first visits around the island: Lagoa do Fogo (Lagoon on Fire), which is a crater lake situated a few kilometres from Ponta Delgada (the capital city of the island). The best option to go there is by renting a car. During the driving and if you are lucky and there are no clouds, you can have wonderful view from the top of the volcano. Actually I think it's one of the highest spots on the island.

When you reach the parking, you need to go down the mountain for some minutes to arrive at the water, so you better wear good, comfortable shoes to hike. By the way, it is not very recommended to have a bath in the lake because of the seaweeds.

Ilhe de São Miguel: The Green Island

Lagoa do Fogo

After that we went to Ribeira Seca to have dinner. It's a little village on the north of the island and, like a lot of other towns, they were celebrating the Espiritu Santo event. So all the neighbours invited us to join the party and take part of the event with some dancings and drinks. I was really impressed about their kindness and amability to us :)