• 2 Dinner (D)
• 3 Breakfast (B)

• Explore Funchal with your Local Specialist on a food and culture walk through Madeira’s capital. Along the way, sample local favourites, and hear how trade, island life and local ingredients have shaped what ends up on the table here.

• Deluxe coach travel
• Selected hotel dinners plus a locally hosted meal
• 4-star stays

Explore Madeira’s sun-drenched southwest on a scenic drive visiting Ponta do Sol and the dramatic Cabo Girão Skywalk, a glass-floored platform poised more than 580 metres above the Atlantic. Soak up far-reaching views across terraced hillsides and the sea-cliff coast.

Pause in Câmara de Lobos, the colourful fishing village once sketched by Churchill, where tavernas serve citrus-bright poncha. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour, ideal for travellers who enjoy coastal scenery and photogenic stops.

Walk a guided Levada trail hike with a Local Specialist, tracing moss-lined water channels beneath laurel and heather canopy. Hear water trickle beside the path, pass fern-draped walls and breathe the cool air of Madeira’s uplands.

Learn how these ingenious aqueducts have irrigated farms since the 16th century within the UNESCO-listed Laurisilva Forest, home to endemic flora and birds. This nature-focused outing is at additional cost and bookable on tour, with route selection tailored to the group’s pace and weather.

Discover the island’s northeast on a coastal and mountain drive culminating in Santana’s thatched A-frame houses, postcard-pretty dwellings painted in white, blue and red. Browse craft stalls and capture the steep, emerald backdrop that frames the village.

Along the way, enjoy Atlantic viewpoints over the rugged northeast coast and terraced fields sustained by levadas. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour, revealing how traditional architecture responds to Madeira’s climate, agriculture and seafaring traditions.

Gather with your small group for a welcome dinner in Funchal, where island staples might include espetada grilled on laurel skewers, bolo do caco and scabbardfish with banana. Toast the start of your journey with a glass of Madeira wine and settle into the rhythm of island evenings.

Your Travel Director shares tips on neighbourhood tascas and viewpoints as you meet your Tour Director and fellow travellers. The focus is on local flavours and Madeiran hospitality, a relaxed introduction to the culture you’ll explore in the days ahead.

Trafalgar

Join a Local Specialist-led foodie walking tour through Madeira’s capital, stopping at the Lavradores Market to taste island-grown tropical fruit, local cheeses and warm bolo do caco with garlic butter. Stroll the cobbles of the Old Town as you hear how Atlantic trade shaped everyday recipes and neighbourhood life.

Continue along Santa Maria Street to admire its painted doors and ateliers, a creative project that revived the quarter’s facades. Expect sips of poncha or Madeira wine with stories of Madeira’s trading past, from sugar routes to ocean-going fortunes.