90 minutes · Evenings, April to September
The Sunset Hour
Ninety minutes west, timed so you're standing above the water as the sun goes down — the clifftop viewpoints first, then São Rafael with the low light behind the sandstone stacks. The best light of the day, and the photographs to show for it.
€49per person · children 3–11 €24.50
Where we go
- Pau da Bandeira
- The clifftop viewpoints
- Praia de São Rafael
The practical bits
- Toilet stop
- Not needed — we're never more than ten minutes from town.
- Getting in and out
- Two steps up into the tuk tuk, and the viewpoint at São Rafael is a short walk from where I park. Message me and I'll tell you honestly whether it'll work for you.
- Children
- Seatbelts on every seat, and everyone wears one. I don't carry child seats, and I'm not going to guess at what the law wants for a toddler in a tuk tuk — message me before you book, tell me how old they are, and I'll tell you straight what I can and can't do.
- Youngest
- No minimum, but talk to me first about babies and toddlers.
- Time of year
- April to September, and the meet time moves with the sun: around seven in the evening at either end of the season, closer to half past seven in June and July. I confirm the exact time when you book, so check that rather than assuming seven. The rest of the year the sun is down before we'd set off, so it comes off sale instead of being sold as something it isn't.
- If the weather turns
- The sides come down, so light rain is fine, and if it's genuinely wet I'll move you to another evening or refund you — your call. What I can't move is the cloud. Some evenings it sits on the horizon and the sun just goes into it: you still get the cliffs and the light on the way out, you don't always get the postcard.
- Group size
- Up to 4 of you in one tuk tuk. More than that and I bring a second driver, same price each.
What I promise
- I'll be there, or you don't pay
- Outside your hotel at the time we agreed. If I'm more than fifteen minutes late and haven't messaged you, the tour's free. You're booking a stranger in a foreign country — that shouldn't be the thing you're worrying about.
- Weather's rubbish? We move it
- Not a refund, a better day — as many times as you like while you're here, at no charge. The sides come down so drizzle is nothing, but I'm not driving you round in the wet and calling it a holiday. If you fly home before we manage it, you get your money back.
- Your pace, not my timetable
- If the kids want another twenty minutes in the sea, we stay. I've never once cut a tour short to get back for the next one, and I'd rather run three good ones a day than six rushed ones.