Our first Levada walks. Levadas are narrow waterways that carry water from the mountains to where it is needed for farming. Next to the Levada is a narrow path used by maintenance crews and by walkers.
This is farm country. Can you imaging farming in a place without any level land? All arable land is terrassed.
Our guide gave us a lesson in botany - above: sugarcane.
Cherimoya.
Bananas everywhere.
Papaya.
Yams. The guide said, "if you eat a lot of these you will live to be a 100."
The Marocos levada changed to the Ribero Frio levada after crossing the tunnel.
Can you imagine living in a house without road access, just steep stairs.
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