Four full days is the honest minimum. One for Montanha do Pico, one at sea, one for the lajido wine country, one for the weather to change its mind. Pico is not walkable, so rent a car before you fly.
2,351 m. Permits, the daily cap, the tracker rule, and an honest page about who should turn back.
Eleven species, month by month, with the operators who carry a hydrophone.
Why the walls exist, which adegas open in winter, and what vindima actually involves.
August sells out by June. There is no useful bus network.
AIMA appointments, the NIF, building costs per square metre, which specialists exist on the island and which need Horta. Written from here, dated, and sourced.