There’s no single “best” time to visit the Azores — it depends on what you want from the trip. These nine green islands sit in the middle of the Atlantic, where the weather is mild all year but can change in an hour, and each season has a different draw: whales in spring, hydrangeas and…
The Azores sit alone in the middle of the North Atlantic, surrounded by deep, plankton-rich water that draws an extraordinary number of whales and dolphins — more than two dozen cetacean species have been recorded around the islands. That makes this little Portuguese archipelago one of the Atlantic’s best-known whale-watching destinations, and one of the…
São Miguel doesn’t look like the rest of Europe — and that’s exactly the point. The largest island in the Azores sits alone in the middle of the Atlantic, a thousand miles from Lisbon, and it’s built almost entirely of volcanoes: green craters filled with twin lakes, valleys that steam and bubble, waterfalls in subtropical…