The Lagoa do Fogo, owner of a unique beauty, the wildest of the three great lakes of green island sometimes is made difficult by the fog you can do
feel.
Therefore choose your day and even hour to climb up to 960
meters from Água de Pau Serra. The boiler where lies the pond water,
It is accessible only by footpath. But do not be fooled by the distance:
the first viewpoint (who goes by the North) are 30-45 minutes in a
rail that is not in very good condition, is it part of the network
official of the tracks. To compensate, on the other hand, the south by Vila Franca
Field, we have a very interesting track, where the first part is a
slightly tilted, but worth every second, by sight, by accompanying taken much of the journey and peace that transmits green Nature. In the end, we are surrounded by a forest dominated endemic of the Azores.
This is the official rail PRC2SMI Beach - Lagoa do Fogo.
That same south slope, the Fire volcano spring about 1000 liters per second of crystalline water that supplies much of the island population.
It makes sense to refer to the two geothermal power plants, installed in
North coast, where it is produced about 40% of the required electricity
in S. Miguel. All this in a very environmentally friendly way without the
use of fossil fuels.
To go down to the city of North Coast, Ribeira Grande, let yourself
impressed by the wonderful Caldeira Velha Natural Monument and
Regional. Open from 9:00 am to
20.30, every day of the week has a new (June 2015) and
interesting track that brings us back to its origins, to the east.
A very interesting place, dominated the tranquility in
Nature and where we can also learn a lot about the same
Nature at its Interpretation Centre.