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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. 🤘

Plot twist: our day-off guests were Alba Flores and Maxi Iglesias. 😎 So yes, for one day we ran La Casa de EPIC. No heist, no red jumpsuits, just two very good sports, a lot of laughing and a canyon that treated them exactly like everyone else. Thanks for choosing us for your day off,…

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Epic Madeira (@epicmadeira) Out of office: on. Phone: in the van. Monday: sent. 🚀 Some people fight Mondays with a third coffee. We put on a wetsuit. By ten o’clock the inbox is a distant rumour and the only meeting on the agenda is with a waterfall that doesn’t care what day it is. That’s the part people don’t expect: how fast the week disappears. One rope, one cold pool, and you’ve laughed more before lunch than in the whole of last month. We’re not saying quit your job. We’re saying take a Monday off and see what happens. Beginner Canyoning: 8+, 65 €, your first send Intermediate Canyoning: 12+, 80 €, for weekly senders Coasteering: 8+, 75 €, sending it Atlantic style 🌊 Book your Monday (or any day) on…

“Feed your confidence and you’ll starve your fear.” We wrote that on Instagram and people kept sending it to their friends. Fair enough. 🤘 Here’s the thing nobody tells you: nobody arrives fearless. Not the guests, not the guides. Fear just gets smaller every time you take one more step than it expected. Ribeira Funda…

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Epic Madeira (@epicmadeira) One million people pressed play on this reel. We still get goosebumps from it, and we were there. 🤩 The truth is we’ve never found the right words for a canyon day. We tried “wet”, “wild”, “unforgettable”. All true, all too small. It’s more like the island leans in and tells you a secret, and you spend the rest of the holiday grinning about it. No experience needed. Swimwear, a towel, and that’s it from your side. The rest is our job, and honestly, the best job on the island. Beginner · 8+ · 65 € Intermediate · 12+ · 80 € Coasteering · 8+ · 75 € · same crew, salty edition 🌊 About 5 hours each, all gear included. More of this on our Instagram; dates…

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Epic Madeira (@epicmadeira) Ask any guide on our team about their first waterfall and watch the face change. 😅 Mine was a long time ago. I remember gripping the rope like it owed me money, cracking a terrible joke to nobody, and then, three steps down, the noise in my head just switched off. That silence is still my favourite sound in Madeira. We see it every week: legs a bit shaky at the top, a laugh halfway, a hug at the bottom. Nobody skips that part. Not even us. If yours is still waiting, it fits in a morning: Beginner Canyoning: 8+, 65 €, around 5 h door to door, zero experience Intermediate Canyoning: 12+, 80 €, for when the first one turns into a habit Message us on WhatsApp…

So, let us start from the end. 🙃