 Quase toda a gente visitou a Eira do Serrado e o Curral das Freiras quando estiveram como turistas na Madeira.Este ponto é de referencia excepcional e tem uma vista magnífica sobre o famoso Curral das Freiras.
Parece ser uma das maiores descidas até ao vale mas pode impressionar os seus amigos ao mencionar que fez a descida realmente até ao fundo do leito do vale pela vereda antiga e que o fez de retorno a pé.Contudo não é assim tão difícil como parece .Apenas chega-lhe uma hora e pouco mais para lá chegar ao fundo do vale.Apenas retorna depois de tomar algo e será novamente uma hora ou menos para voltar!??
Eira do Serrado to
Curral das Freiras
| Route |
Eira do Serrado to Curral das Freiras |
| Distance |
3 km each way |
| Time |
1.00- 1.30 hrs. each way |
| Climbs |
0-450 m |
| Descents |
450 m |
| How to get there |
Bus or car to Eira do Serrado. Return from Curral das Freiras by bus
or walk back to Eira do Serrado. |
| Danger of vertigo |
No. The path is usually quite wide and you do not get close to any
steep drops. |
| Description in Landscapes of Madeira |
Route no. 3 |
| Hints |
If you do the walk in reverse and start from Curral das Freiras, the
path may be quite difficult to find. Look out for a narrow path on the
left hand side of the road approx. 500 m after the village.
May be combined with the walk from Corticeiras
to Ribeira do Curral |
Description
Almost everybody who has visited Madeira has
been at the view-point Eira do Serrado overlooking Curral das Freiras -
The
Valley of the Nuns. From the Miradouro (view point) it seems
like a vertical descent to the valley, but you can impress your friends
by telling them that you made the descent and re-ascent by foot! You do
not need to tell them, however, that it is not nearly as difficult as it
looks. A little more than one hour is all it takes to walk the wide, not
too steep path down to the valley. After a break in one of the bars in
the Curral, it is also just one hour's climb back to the view-point again.
Start out at the souvenir shop at the parking
place at Eira do Serrado. A new snack bar is under construction here (Jan.
1999). At a concrete marker, the old path leads the way to the valley.
There are a number of places along the path, where you can stop and enjoy
the views over the valley and the massive peaks surrounding it. The path
is generally in a very good condition, although the last 500-800 meters
may be a slightly muddy or wet experience. When you reach the tarred road
at the end of the path, turn right to walk the few hundred meters up to
Curral das Freiras. Alternatively turn left and descent to the Levada do
Curral, which you can follow for some distance, before it gets quite vertiginous.
The weather on this route can be very windy,
cold and wet, so be sure to bring your rain-gear! If you are lucky you
can enjoy some very beautiful rainbows along the route. You sometimes look
down
on a rainbow and for some reason most of them seem to end right in the
middle of the village down in the valley.
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Quase toda a gente visitou a Eira do Serrado e o Curral das Freiras quando estiveram como turistas na Madeira.Este ponto é de referencia excepcional e tem uma vista magnífica sobre o famoso Curral das Freiras.
Parece ser uma das maiores descidas até ao vale mas pode impressionar os seus amigos ao mencionar que fez a descida realmente até ao fundo do leito do vale pela vereda antiga e que o fez de retorno a pé.Contudo não é assim tão difícil como parece .Apenas chega-lhe uma hora e pouco mais para lá chegar ao fundo do vale.Apenas retorna depois de tomar algo e será novamente uma hora ou menos para voltar!??
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