"Oh my word, just look at this: a native laurel! This is just absolutely magical!" A quivering peak of botanical ecstasy had been noisily attained by one of our party. As so often with such ...

You could call New England and Portugal cousins, thanks to more than a century of migration here from the Atlantic nation. Though visit São Miguel, the largest of the nine islands that make up the ...

Rising from the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, the Azores archipelago is a Portuguese treasure that’s just waiting for you to stumble upon it. We’re talking nine islands here – including the absolutely ...

Dedication -- Volcanic geology of São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago): introduction / J. Gaspar, J.E. Guest, A. Duncan, D. Chester & F. Barriga -- Geological setting. The structure of the azores ...

There are very few places on the planet where you can find top spots for many different adventure sports packed close together. The Azores is one of them. This remote archipelago of nine islands in ...

The Azores is probably one of the best places in the world to go whale watching. That's because it is one of the world's largest whale sanctuaries, with more than 20 different species of cetaceans ...

"New" destinations are rarely remotely novel. Take the newest, Sao Miguel. The main island of the Azores is certainly remote: adrift in mid-Atlantic, 900 miles west of Lisbon. But thanks to ...

There are very few places on the planet where you can find top spots for many different adventure sports packed close together. The Azores is one of them. This remote archipelago of nine islands in ...