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Main Index : Maps, Atlases and Guides for the rest of Europe : Portugal : Portugal Walking Guides Landscapes of the Algarve (Ref. Code. SUNFLOWERALG) Portugal's most popular resort has far more visitors than sun and sand. Use this book to tour with your hired car or by public transport. Better still, use the book to explore Algarve on foot. Get to know the real Portugal - you'll be surprised at the variety of landscapes Algarve has to offer. This guidebook also includes walks for all ages and abilities, topographical walking maps, car tours and fold-out touring map, short strolls to idyllic picnic spots, public transport information and update service for the latest information.     Price:  £12.99  Quantity: Rother Algarve (Ref. Code. ISBN 3 7633 4825 5) The Finest Valley and Mountain Walks 1st edition 2005 Popular guide book detailing over 50 walks in the Algarve. Includes maps and extensive tourist information.     Price:  £8.99  Quantity: Cicerone Walking in the Algarve (Ref. Code. ISBN 1 85284 437 X) Coastal and Mountain Walks - 34 full- and half-day walks offering a mix of coastal, mountain and inland scenery - illustrated with clear route maps - background information on local geology, wildlife, history, agriculture and the shaping of the landscape - useful route table to help in planning walks    Price:  £12.00  Quantity: Sunflower Landscapes of the Azores (Ref. Code. SUNFLOWERAZ) All nine isalnds of the archipelago are covered in this guide, which explores an amazing diveristy of landscapes - from emerald-green pastureland ribboned by hydrangeas to volcanic craters cupping limpid turquoise lakes. Use this book to tour with your hired car or by public transport. Better still, use the book to explore the Azores on foot. This guidebook also includes walks for all ages and abilities, topographical walking maps, car tours and fold-out touring map, short strolls to idyllic picnic spots, public transport information and update service for the latest information.     Price:  £12.99  Quantity: Walking in Madeira: 50 mountain, coastal & Levada walks (Ref. Code. CICERONEMAD) 50 hill and mountain walks throughout Madeira. o General introduction to visiting and getting the most from a walking trip to the island. o Concise, easy to use, pocket-sized: the guide to take and use. Rising steep and rocky from the Atlantic Ocean, Madeira is a compact and mountainous island. Criss-crossed by a network of old paths and tracks, it is remarkably accessible and scenic. Enjoying a sub-tropical climate, it is suitable for year-round walking. As a result of volcanic activity it can be steep, but high ridges and the cliffs of its Atlantic coast are always in view. Water is conveyed around the island in flower-fringed lavadas, their banks offering anything from a gentle stroll to an exposed cliff walk. There are wooded valleys, rocky slopes, cultivated terraces and impressive cliffs to explore. The people are unfailingly friendly. The wine is excellent. This guidebook includes a rich and varied selection of walks on Madeira, and also covers the neighbouring island of Porta Santo.     Price:  £12.00  Quantity: Rother Madeira The finest valley and mountain walks (Ref. Code. ISBN 3 7633 4811 5) 50 walks on Europe's island of flowers with detailed descriptions and tips for linking the routes. Plus 84 colour photogrpahs, 50 1:25,000/1:50,000 walking maps and a 1:250,000 overview map. "The first word that walkers might learn in Portuguese is 'levada'. Levada walking is unique to Madeira. Narrow irrigation channels cover the whole of the island in a cleverly devised network. Without too much change in elevation you can discover some of the remotest corners on Madeira on the maintenance paths beside the channels. A good half of the walks in this guide are levada walks. They lead you through fertile farmland with sugar cane, banana trees and vines, past terraces skillfully moulded into the craggy island topography, awakening associations with Bali or the Phillipines. The paths pass rushing waterfalls and gorges, precipitous cliffs and marshy high moors. The subtropical vegetation of laurel forests and heatland in the still unspoilt valleys of the north is sometimes so luxuriant, it's as if you are walking through an emerald green tunnel. With all the fascination of the levada paths you should not forget, however, that this volcanic island is also an excellent area for mountain walkers. The almost 1900m high central massif has walks for everyone. The three summit walk from Arieiro over the Torres up to Pico Ruivo seems decidedly alpine. The section spectacularly cut into the rock is considered to be a particularly outstanding walk, with justification. Together with remote shepherds' paths and adventurous coastal paths there are so-called 'veredas', old linking paths which, up to a few decades ago, were the only approach to isolated villages. A typical feature is the rounded steps of the cobbled paths which Madeiran people fondly call 'ox-foot cobbles'".     Price:  £8.99  Quantity: Sunflower Landscapes of Madeira (Ref. Code. ISBN 1 85691 246 7) Winner of the prestigious Thomas Cook Travel Guide Award, this book has been the guide to Madeira's countryside for the last 20 years. Essential reading, whether you tour the island by car or explore on foot. This guidebook also includes 100 long and short walks, for all ages and abilities, topographical walking maps, car tours and fold-out touring map, short strolls to idyllic picnic spots, public transport information and update service for the latest information. N.B. 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