Foodies could contentedly spend a week or more just meandering through the Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture area with its stunning basalt backdrops, but we think exploration of the Gruta das Torres lava tube is a definite highlight, and something not to be overlooked.
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Adegas do Pico
Adegas do Pico is a set of twelve stone-built houses located in Praínha, a quaint, traditional Azorean village on Pico Island.
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All You Need to Know About Blackwater Diving
If you want to swim among underwater aliens and take your night diving up a notch, why not try blackwater diving? This style of submersion - which involves suspending yourself in open water at night - allows you to witness the world's largest daily migration, called diel vertical migration.…
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Best Diving in Portugal
What if we told you that you could dive alongside mako sharks and manta rays within European waters? And if we told you that those waters were Portuguese, would you believe us? The Azores is a Portuguese archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, a little…
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Top Five Dive Sites for Blackwater Diving
Ever been night diving? Blackwater diving is night diving on steroids. But rather than exploring reefs, divers are suspended in the pitch black of the open ocean. Why? Because that's when the diurnal migration (aka the world's largest migration) occurs, with countless platonic animals of the…
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