Breakfast will be served in the hotel between 7.30 and 8.45 a.m.

Lunch and dinner will be served in a local restaurant or in the hotel.

Day 1

Arrival in Ponta Delgada, Azores.

As participants will be arriving in different flights, there will be no special transfer from airport to hotel, thus, self transfer.

Accommodation in Ponta Delgada Hotel.

In this first evening, we will have a Welcoming Drink to do the presentation of the program and we will walk in the city.

Day 2

After breakfast, we will  enjoy a full day doing a Botanical Tour with Tiago, a local biologist that will take us into Lagoa do Fogo, Caldeira Velha,  Miradouro de Santa Iria and Fontanário da Ribeira Seca.

Day 3

We will do an easy walking trail between Vista do Rei Belvedere and Lomba Belvedere.

The lunch will be in the Poejo Restaurante and Tea house in Sete Cidades town, near the lagoons.

Afternoon we go to Canario Lagoon and Belvedere Grota do Inferno.

To finnished the day we will do a Forest Aromatic Ritual.

Day 4

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Visit the only local Essential Oils Distillery on the island.

Talks and lecture about some Azores essential oils, with Professor Doutor Jorge Medeiros, about Hedychium gardnerianum; the local maître distillateur and other speakers.

Lunch at Ribeira Grande.

Private guided visit to Marques Family Pineaple´s plantations.

Visit a local pottery factory.

Sea evening ritual with Pedro.

Dinner.

Day 5

In the morning we will visit the famous Botanical Park Terra Nostra, in Furnas, with its magnificent collection of more than 800 camellia species, on situ, a lecture will be given by a local guide, Carina Costa, a engineer specializes in camellias. 

After the lecture, you will have free time to explore the park on your own and take a bath in the hot ferruginous waters pool.

For lunch, you will have the possibility to enjoy  in a local restaurant, the famous Furnas stew “Cozido” (regular or vegetarian).

In the end of the day, we will go to the Furnas Lagoon, to visit the volcanic boiling waters where the “Cozido “ was cooked, 

Day 6

Sacred oils, a workshop with Jonathan.

Lunch.

Discover Astaxantina from Azores, a micro algae consider to be the best antioxidant nowadays in the world.

Visit a winery and taste some Azorean wine.

Dinner

Day 6

Sacred oils, a workshop with Jonathan.

Lunch.

Discover Astaxantina from Azores, a micro algae consider to be the best antioxidant nowadays in the world.

Visit a winery and taste some Azorean wine.

Dinner

Day 7

Guided visit to the Nordeste´s governmental Florestal Divulgation and Conservation Centre

Lunch in Nordeste.

With an aromatic walking trail, you will discover the ancient endemic laurisilva forest, and a cryptomeria woodland with Liv-Nina.

Enjoy several belvederes.

Dinner on the way or at the hotel.

Day 8

Visit the Graça Market in Ponta Delgada.

Visit a  Carvão  vulcanic cave

Lunch.

Visit the Gorreana Tea factory

Aromatic walk through the tea fields.

Farewell aromatic ritual.

Dinner.

Notes: 

1-  As we are ending the retreat in the evening, this night accommodation is included in the retreat.

2 - The structure of the Programe might be modified if necessary.

Saturday, 12 March 2022. (Optional)

Dolphins and whales watching, in the morning.