The activity offer is modest, but it has one clear star.<\/p>\n
4×4 island tour with hotel transfer, from about \u20ac50, seven hours.<\/strong> The island’s top product: 4.9 stars across nearly 470 reviews. It works the viewpoint hills \u2014 Pico do Facho<\/strong>, Pico Castelo<\/strong>, Portela<\/strong>, the Fonte da Areia<\/strong> cliffs \u2014 and turns a flat island into a surprisingly varied one.<\/p>\n Guided snorkelling in protected water, from about \u20ac49, three hours.<\/strong> Clearer and shallower than Madeira, over pale sand.<\/p>\n Horse riding, from about \u20ac53, 1\u20133 hours.<\/strong> On the beach \u2014 barely available on Madeira itself, and it works here.<\/p>\n Buggy, 90 minutes, from about \u20ac90<\/strong> per vehicle. For the tracks inland.<\/p>\n Pirate expedition island tour, from about \u20ac44, three hours.<\/strong> The family format.<\/p>\n **Ferry (Lobo Marinho<\/em>)** from Funchal, generally daily, crossing two hours twenty. Day returns are possible but leave only about five hours on the island \u2014 enough for the beach, tight for the 4×4 tour. Details in our piece on the ferry to Porto Santo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Flights<\/strong> on the regional connection, 15 minutes, several times a day.<\/p>\n If you want the 4×4 tour, stay a night<\/strong>. Otherwise the day becomes a scramble between two ferry times.<\/p>\n Beach: yourself<\/strong>, it costs nothing. The 4×4 tour: book it<\/strong> \u2014 without a vehicle you will see the beach and not much else, and hiring a car for one night rarely pays.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49 See all Porto Santo activities<\/a> (Affiliate link)<\/small><\/p>\n Next: The ferry to Porto Santo<\/a> \u00b7 Porto Santo<\/a> \u00b7 Snorkelling and kayaking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Porto Santo is Madeira’s opposite: flat instead of steep, yellow instead of green, and with nine kilometres of unbroken sand it has the thing Madeira does not. About 40 km to the north-east, two hours twenty by ferry or fifteen minutes by air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coast-ocean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Getting there<\/h2>\n
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