Best places to visit in Sao Miguel Island are the main island
of the Azores archipelago, the largest and most popular. Do you think that many
people who come to the Azores for the first time limit themselves to just
visiting Sao Miguel, there are many things to do and see. Those who like us
prefer to diversify use it, generally, as a base of arrival. We like to be original
and we put it as a final stop.
No, actually I would have wanted to leave Sao Miguel for our
tour of the Azores but for a matter of availability of accommodation and
flights it was better to overturn everything (therefore Faial-Pico-Sao Miguel)
If the arrival in Faial was magical at times mystical, the arrival in Sao Miguel was very different. The author of the Marco Polo guide I used to organize this trip writes that for those arriving from Faial or any of the other more remote islands, arriving in Sao Miguel could be almost a culture shock. I always try not to take for granted what they write in the guides but in this case I share the author's mood at 101% and if I could get on the first flight back to Villa Belgica I would not hesitate a second.
In Sao Miguel we
return to civilization, to welcome us there are no longer the cows that graze
placidly in the middle of carpets of hydrangeas but Cars that are overcome on
busy freeways. Sao Miguel is, to all intents and purposes, a clearly more
urbanized island. After 3 days immersed in a sidereal silence, so perfect that
it almost hurts the ears, now this whole civilization is out of place. But they
are only initial sensations, never be prevented!
