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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Epic Madeira (@epicmadeira) At some point we just started calling it Air-Walk rappelling. 🤔 Technically it’s a rappel. Emotionally it’s a stroll through thin air with excellent company and a slightly ridiculous strut. We didn’t invent the move, but the team has definitely perfected the swagger. 😎 The funny part is how quickly it happens to beginners too. First step: wobbly. Third step: legs remember they’re legs. Tenth step: someone’s moonwalking and the whole canyon is laughing. Beginner Canyoning: 8+, first steps off the edge Intermediate Canyoning: 12+, from walking to strutting Coasteering: 8+, air-walking, salty edition 🌊 Runway’s open. Book your slot on WhatsApp +351 913 988 682, see more strutting on our Instagram. 💦

Quality time. 😎 Not the sofa kind. Not the “scrolling side by side” kind. The kind where phones stay in the van and the only notification is a guide saying “ready when you are”. 🪢 Ask our team what a good day looks like and you’ll get the same answer from everyone: mostly laughing. A…

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Epic Madeira (@epicmadeira) You can just do things. 🤘 Wake up early. Skip the sunbed. Trade the to-do list for a harness. Nobody’s going to stop you, and nobody’s going to ask for a certificate either. Every season someone tells us at the top: “I never thought I’d do this.” Twenty minutes later the same person is first in line for the next jump. That switch is our favourite thing in the world to watch. It never gets old. However, for EPIC things, you’ll want the crew: Beginner Canyoning: 8+, your permission slip Intermediate Canyoning: 12+, for when one permission slip isn’t enough Coasteering: 8+, same nerve, saltier water 🌊 Five hours, gear included, excuses not accepted. Just do it on WhatsApp +351 913 988 682. 😎

The best holiday stories never start with “so, we were by the pool…”. 😎 They start with a helmet, a rope and a kid who suddenly refuses to go home. Canyoning in Madeira with kids is absolutely a thing, and it might just be the proudest morning of your trip. So, be honest: who’s going…

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Epic Madeira (@epicmadeira) Zero presets. Zero beauty mode. 🏞️ Just a heartbeat trying to keep up with a river, and losing, very happily. That’s what “unfiltered” means to us. Nobody poses in a canyon. You’re too busy feeling everything at once: the cold, the noise, that ridiculous grin you didn’t plan. A guest once told me it was the best therapy she’d ever had. I told her therapy doesn’t usually come with a waterfall. She booked again the next year. 💦 Choose your pace: Beginner Canyoning: 8+, 65 €, your pulse’s first race Intermediate Canyoning: 12+, 80 €, the rematch The river’s ready. Your move on WhatsApp +351 913 988 682. 🌿

We said “keep posted for news on our blog”. We didn’t say when. 😅 So here it is, Part I of an EPIC descent in one of our favourite canyons. Good things take time; EPIC things take rope. 🪢 Funny thing about favourite canyons: they never get old. Same walls, same pools, and yet every…

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Epic Madeira (@epicmadeira) Seixal has stairs. We just don’t use them. 🚀💦 Island life level: taking the waterfall expressway. No traffic, no tolls, and the only speed limit is how loud you’re laughing. For a few seconds there’s no phone and no to-do list, only gravity doing its job beautifully. Then you hit the bottom, look back up, and ask the question every guide on our team has heard a thousand times: “Can we go again?” Pick your lane: Beginner Canyoning: 8+, 65 € Intermediate Canyoning: 12+, 80 € Coasteering: 8+, 75 €, if you like your expressway salty 🌊 Expressway tickets on WhatsApp +351 913 988 682. Stairs not included. 😏

Sorry, not sorry. 😅 There’s a kind of place in Madeira that no road reaches. You get there on foot, then on a rope, then by swimming, and by the time you arrive the island has gone completely quiet. These are the places where only canyoneers go. We’d tell you the coordinates, but that would…

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Epic Madeira (@epicmadeira) Nothing compares. We’ve tried. 🤩 Concerts, roller coasters, that first swim of summer. Good, all of it. Then you’re on a rope in the middle of a Madeira gorge, water everywhere, and you realise you’ve been comparing apples to waterfalls. That’s the raw kind. No filter, no shortcut, no way to get it through a screen. It’s why we keep doing this when we could, in theory, get proper jobs. 😅 Beginner Canyoning: 8+, 65 €, your first time on the rope Intermediate Canyoning: 12+, 80 €, when you want it rawer Not sure which? Ask us on WhatsApp +351 913 988 682, we’ll be honest. 🌿

Confession: not every waterfall we love needs a rope. 🤫 This one, in Ponta do Sol, you can just walk into. A levada takes you there along the sunny south-west side of the island, you can make it a circular route with two levadas, and there are picnic tables right by the river. Some people…

Twenty-five minutes. Three canyons. One very patient camera crew. 🎬 Back in the day we teamed up with RTP Madeira to make the first full documentary about canyoning in Portugal, filmed right here. It’s the island from the inside: how the sport started here, three routes that show what these riverbeds hide, and that forest so green it looks edited (it isn’t). A few facts for the curious: Published on our YouTube on 15 January 2020, about 25 min 30 s, in Portuguese (there’s an English-subtitled cut on our Facebook) RTP1 ran a news piece, Canyoning na Madeira (6 July 2017, journalist Paulo Jardim), with Francisco Pereira from Epic Madeira. It’s still in the RTP Arquivos Full film: Documentary about Canyoning in Madeira Island Rewatching it still makes us want to grab the ropes and go. If it does the…

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Epic Madeira (@epicmadeira) EPIC Mode ON ✅ Every guide on the team has a private switch. It flips somewhere between the car park and the first anchor, and after that the world gets very simple: rope, water, the people you’re with. I-E-A-I-A-I-O. 🎸 750 thousand people watched this reel. A few of them came to find out what the switch feels like from the inside. Most of them are still texting us about it. Want yours flipped? Start with Beginner (8+, 65 €), or go straight to Intermediate (12+, 80 €) if you already know you’re hooked. Around 5 hours, everything included except your swimwear. Switch it on with us on WhatsApp +351 913 988 682. 🤘