BB - Madeira 5.nap
Today was the day that everyone of us was waiting for the most, because Sergio took us out into the field, into the wilderness, and there he explained weather processes and showed us things that he had only told us about before. There was a meeting before school and we took a minibus up the mountain above Funchal, where the bus stopped at a café, and then we started a 2km hike led by Sergio, our destination was Pico Alto (the lookout point on the mountain peak above the city). During the hike, we learned about the flora of the mountain, Sergio stopped at an awful lot of flowers and talked about them, as well as about the trees, and my female colleagues enthusiastically and admiringly took pictures of the more beautiful flowers. Here you can find everything, like in a rich flower shop, only in a much larger size, my favorite is the dandelion that we can also find here (which grows on the side of the road, next to the sidewalk and is small), which is one and a half meters high here. But interestingly, there are also a lot of eucalyptus trees, although it is an invasive species and the locals don't like it, but it is terribly difficult to eradicate it, and there are not really any koalas around here, so they tolerate their presence. This place where we hiked is also special because it burned down in a forest fire in 2010 and since then they have been trying to recreate the forest in cooperation with nature. At the lookout point, we could admire the movement of the white-tailed deer over the opposite mountain, which Sergio explained at length.
A túra végén délután visszaértünk a buszhoz, majd aki akart mehetett egy levadat túrára (ezt már előre beharangozta Sergio), ami a kávézótól indult és tanárunk szerint kb 12 km-es (az óráink szerint 13.8km). 6-an jelentkeztünk rá, Javier (spanyol), Petra (olasz), Sana és Lisa (finn), Linda és én (magyar), a többiek visszabuszoztak a városba. Indulás előtt Sergio elmagyarázta az utat (vicces volt), kb. "a közúton egyenesen, lesz balra bazaltkőből kirakott erdei út balra, azon folytassátok, majd keresztezitek a közutat, ott tovább, aztán lesz egy ház, attól vissza 100m jobbra és ott menjetek le a bokros részen és ott már a levada vezet tovább, ha végigcsináltátok, akkor a hegy másik oldalán lesztek, de jön vissza távolsági busz ", majd elköszönt és visszament a többiekkel Funchalba. Na ez úgy nézett ki gyakorlatban, hogy elindultunk nyirkos, ködös, szeles, hideg időben (még én is fáztam) az elmondott irányba és nagyon hamar gondba kerültünk. Ugyebár említettem, hogy ködös volt az idő( ez igazából a felhő belseje), ezt úgy kell elképzelni, mintha tejhabba sétáltunk volna és így nehéz tájékozódni, felismerni bármit is. Elérkeztünk az említett házhoz, tudtuk, hogy már el kellett volna kanyarodnunk jobbra, na igen, de hol? Kupaktanácsot áltunk és veszettül kerestük a google térképen hol is vagyunk, az sem tudta. Javier bátran belegyalogolt jobbra a ködbe, hogy keressen valami olyat jelzést, ami útbaigazít minket. Hamarosan füttyögve jelezte, hogy talált valami és ahogy közeledett vissza hozzánk, véletlenül szétkergetett egy birkacsordát a ködben (innen tudtuk, hogy jön) . DE, megtalálta a helyes utat és innentől kezdve egy varázslatos túra vette kezdetét. Elképesztő helyeken jártunk, egy mesevilágba csöppentünk, bánhatják a társaink, hogy nem jöttek Velünk. Megpróbálom képekkel érzékeltetni, de szerintem meg sem közelíti a valóságot. ui.: a nap végére több, mint 36.000 lépést tettem meg az órám szerint, a túra összesen kb 16 km volt, közel 600 m szinkülönbséggel
At the end of the tour we returned to the bus in the afternoon, and then whoever wanted to could go on a levada tour (Sergio had already announced this in advance), which started from the café and was about 12 km long according to our teacher (13.8km according to our hours). 6 of us signed up for it, Javier (Spanish), Petra (Italian), Sana and Lisa (Finnish), Linda and I (Hungarian), the others took the bus back to the city. Before leaving, Sergio explained the route (it was funny), about. "straight on the public road, there will be a forest road paved with basalt stone to the left, continue on it, then cross the public road, continue there, then there will be a house, from there turn 100m to the right and go down the bushy part and there the levada will continue, if you have done it all the way, you will be on the other side of the mountain, but a long-distance bus will come back", then he said goodbye and went back to Funchal with the others. Well, this is what it looked like in practice, we set off in damp, foggy, windy, cold weather (even I was cold) in the direction we were told and we quickly got into trouble. I mentioned that the weather was foggy (this is actually the inside of the cloud), you have to imagine it as if we were walking on milk foam and it is difficult to find our way or recognize anything. We arrived at the house in question, we knew that we should have turned right, yes, but where? We took a sip of water and searched frantically on Google Maps, it didn't know where we were either. Javier bravely walked right into the fog to look for some kind of sign that would guide us. He soon whistled to indicate that he had found something and as he approached us back, he accidentally scattered a herd of sheep in the fog. BUT, he found the right way and from there a magical tour began. We visited amazing places, we fell into a fairy tale world, our companions may regret not coming with us. I'll try to convey it with pictures, but I don't think it even comes close to reality. ui.: by the end of the day I had taken more than 36,000 steps according to my watch
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