Azores – Where We Went

Like I mentioned in the previous post, we went places that most tourists (or natives) don’t usually see. And after traversing unpaved roads, having our car stall the the top of a mountain, and getting stuck in the mud several times, we know why. We can safely say that cows have seen every square inch of Sao Miguel. There were cows in places so high, steep, or muddy we couldn’t figure out how they managed to get there. More on the cows later.

Ali made a comment when we were in a valley, sandwiched in between two skyscraping mountains, to the effect of , “how do I capture the beauty here?” What she meant is it is hard to show how grandiose a place is through a photo. We see photos of mountains and landscapes all the time. Did you ever stop to think how the photographer got that photo? After my trip, I’ve really come to appreciate landscapes in a new way.

One way to show the scale of a place is to stick a person in the photo. Many places we visited I was so consumed with keeping my balance and getting the shot quickly that I didn’t have time to snap a shot of Ali, but the photos below will give you an idea of where we went.

(that’s boiling water incase you were wondering)

(more boiling water that stinks of sulfur)