Daniel’s Levada Directory

25 June 2016 Levada de Machico part 2

Also known as Tour 2016-06-25 1 Nova de Machico

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

Course

From the road junction in the direction of flow, as already in 2014, but this time further, as far as the rock passage and the end of the walkable part, back to the starting point

Distance: 6.2 Km, 100 m ascent, 100 m descent

Start: 10.57 ER-108

End

13.05 ER-108

Condition

Levada a little narrow, increasingly somewhat broken away; the passage at the last reservoir is difficult and exposed

Ascent from the gravel track after the reservoir is possible; the bypass of the rock passage is a little slippery and steep (along the pipe)

After that a path from below gives access again; after the last intake it is ruined, overgrown and exposed. In theory you can go further, but it is extremely hard work and increasingly precarious