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Madeira: what a nice walking holidays!!!

September 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The island offers you magnificent opportunities for walking to all type of levels. It depends on your choise: from easiest levadas to  500 meters descend  trough 2400 steps. You should organize well your combinations of bus and you will save money with taxi. Just a tip: Organize your itineraries in sunny-cloudy days because some of them are essential to walk without mist, not because of the danger but because of sight (it is a pity you lose the scenery)

Ponta Sao Lorenço

Levada

Sight from Pico Areirio

Lovers of Botany: Laurisilva.

Lovers of Geology: Vulcanism.

Lovers of landscape and photography: colours contrasted, different lights, forms of landscape.

Lovers of speed:….not problem, you just need to get on the bus by these narrow roads.

If you need more tips or you like to travel to Madeira with us, don’t doubt it to contact us: info@maestrex.es

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Ignacio

www.maestrex.es


La isla ofrece magníficas oportunidades de practicar el senderismo a todo tipo de niveles. Todo depende de tu elección: desde sencillas levadas hasta desniveles de 500 metros a vencer por medio de 2400 escalones!!!. Organiza bien tus combinaciones de autobús y ahorrarás en taxis. Una recomendación: clasifica tus itinerarios en aquellos que no pueden hacerse en día nublado y los que no es imprescindible caminar con sol. En algunas ocasiones, si te rodea la niebla, no verás nada de paisaje y esto es una lástima en según que escenarios. Madeira cuenta con algunos reclamos que no encontrarás fácilmente en otros lugares:

Para los amantes de la botánica: laurisilva.

Para los amantes de la geología: vulcanología.

Para los amantes del paisajismo y la fotografía: contraste de colores, de luces, de formas del relieve.

Para los amantes de la velocidad:….no hay problema, basta con montar en sus autobuses públicos por esas carreteras de montaña.

Para los amantes de la arquitectura: aquí no hay mucho para ellos.

Si deseas algún consejo o viajar con nosotros a Madeira contacta con nosotros: info@maestrex.es

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Ignacio

www.maestrex.es

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Walking: How to Get Started on Your Road to Fitness

August 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment

What do you have in common with your cave-dwelling ancestors of the paleolithic era? Your genes. As you are about to discover, this is crucial to your ability to achieve fitness.

You see, we have a “thrifty gene”. Actually, there are probably many such genes, but for the point of this article just one will suffice.
What is most interesting about this study was the level of exercise that Booth et. al. used to establish an “activity baseline”. What do you think it is? Running for an hour a day? Hard weight training four days per week?

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