If you are like me, you enjoy scouring the atlas for random islands in the middle of the ocean. That pastime, along with the fact that my cousin just moved there, recently took me to the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago smack in the centre of the Atlantic. These islands sprung up at the junction of the Eurasian, African and North American tectonic plates, and you know what that means: volcanoes!
I was on Terceira Island, which is made up of 4 major volcanoes that make up the rhythm of the landscape.
Bubbling magma created a series of caves and caverns inside the island that provide non-claustrophobic tourists with many magnificent stalactite and stalagmite viewing opportunities. Here I was heading down into one such cave. Although this picture reminds me of the movie The Descent, it wasn’t actually scary, and I did not run into any bloodthirsty creatures.
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