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Daniel’s Levada Directory

25.07.2014 Levada dos Cedros (afternoon)

Also known as Tour 2014-07-25 Nachmittags Levada dos Cedros

Archival documentation — not a current hiking recommendation. Source file on danishome.ch last modified: 12 June 2020

Course

From the Fanal car park, descent to the Levada dos Cedros, halfway along the old course to the Madre

Distance: ca. 3.5 Km ca. 160 Hm

Start 15.20 Fanal

End

17.20 Fanal

Condition

Easy as far as the second stream crossing, then increasingly overgrown and wet, but not dangerous

Remarks

The aim of this side trip was to get to the bottom of the mismatch between the course of the Levada dos Cedros on the map and on the GPS tracks. For more detail see the excursus under Levada dos Cedros.

GPS / KMZ

Map

Photos

From the junction with the ascent path to the first stream crossing

To the second stream crossing

To the third stream crossing

To the fourth stream crossing (outlet 1)

To outlet 2

To the Madre

Back to the ascent path

Continuation in the other direction