What to do in the Azores Climb Mount Pico, Pico Island. ... It's a rugged four-hour climb to reach the 7,700-foot summit through an extraterrestrial terrain of rippled black lava ... Flores Island.

Situated in the western group of the Azores, it is the smallest and least populated inhabited island of Portugal, covering about 17.1 square kilometres with around 435 residents as of 2023.

We take a day trip by boat from Santa Cruz to Corvo, the smallest island in the Azores, 12 miles off the north coast of Flores. It has only room for one small town (and a runway) for its ...