Canico Tours
East 4x4 Santana & Peaks
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East 4x4 Santana & Peaks

By Green Devil Safari
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Ages 0-99, max of 8 per group
Duration: 8h
Start time: Check availability
Mobile ticket
Live guide: German, Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
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  • Local guide
  • Driver/guide
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off - Funchal area free pick up / outside of Funchal may have extra fuel tax
  • Hotel/port pickup and drop-off - Pick up at the Cruise dock extra fee €5.00 per person
  • Bottled water
What's not included
  • Food and drinks
  • Lunch - extra €12.00 per person
  • Gratuities
  • Entry/Admission - Miradouro da Portela
  • Entry/Admission - Madeira Rum House
  • Entry/Admission - Santana
  • Entry/Admission - Pico do Arieiro


Start:Multiple pickup locations offered.
    Pickup details
    • We do the pick up at Airbnb, hotel & cruise port Free pick up in Funchal / Caniço area, other areas extra fee: €5.00 p/p - cruise dock / harbour €5.00 p/p - Santo da Serra, Machico, Santa Cruz, Estreito Camara de Lobos, Jardim da Serra, Ponta do Sol, Calheta €10.00 p/p - Caniçal, Porto da Cruz, Santana, São Vicente, Ponta Delgada, Prazeres
    Hotel pickup offered
    During checkout you will be able to select from the list of included hotels.
      Port pickup offered
      During checkout you will be able to select from the list of included ports.
      • Madeira
      • Funchal
      End:This activity ends back at the meeting point.

        • Not wheelchair accessible
        • Near public transportation
        • Infant seats available
        If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 16813P27

        • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
        • 9:15am Machico area
        • 9:00am Caniço area
        • 8:30am Funchal area
        • 7:45am Calheta area
        • 7:45am Ponta Delgada area
        • No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
        • Most travelers can participate
        • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 travelers

        • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.

        If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 16813P27

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        • Green Devil Safari
          2,085
          Funchal, Portugal
          Joined in June 2015
        • Penpal_55
          0 contributions
          4.0 of 5 bubbles
          Awesome keep tour.
          Fun time with our entertaining kind driver Pedro. He got us safely to and from and we had a blast! We had to skip one stop due to heavy fog/ clouds but he did he best to make the trip complete by taking us to two additional unplanned stops. I recommend Lido tours.
          Written February 4, 2025
        • Penpal_55
          0 contributions
          4.0 of 5 bubbles
          Avid Traveler
          Wear layers. Maybe something to hold your hair back. And a raincoat just incase. Our driver was Pedro and he was great. Upbeat, fun friendly tour guide. Our last stop was totally fogged in so he took us as a surprise and brought us to a waterfall and also added in an extra stop.
          Written February 4, 2025
        • Tudor M
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          A great experience
          We chose to do the offroad tour on the 2nd day after arriving in Madeira. Just to learn a few things about the island and for an introduction to the areas of interest. Lino (our driver and guide) made the experience even more beautiful, being very friendly and joking. Also, living in Madeira for many years, he gave us very useful information about the island. I totally recommend this type of activity.
          Written February 3, 2025
        • DMP1401
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Amazing day - highly recommend
          Absolutely wonderful day! Miquel was just the best tour guide, knowledgeable, fun, accommodating and very patient with what ended up having a jeep full of chickens!! Who knew that we were all from around the area that he'd live in the UK! Can absolutely highly recommend this tour, the views were amazing, the silence in the mountains so peaceful. The roads "challenging" thank goodness it was a 4x4! The lunch recommendation, excellent and the drinks too!! Book and enjoy a fabulous day seeing some of the very beautiful island. Thank you Miquel!!
          Written February 1, 2025
        • bjdenn
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Memorable day out to North West Madeira!
          Wonderful day out with Diogo! He was an excellent driver and very knowledgeable about the island! Took us to some beautiful places. No swimming for us as the sea was very rough, but impressive. Lunch ( arranged by Diogo ) was delicious! Thank you Diogo!
          Written January 28, 2025
        • Borgewigum
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          The Enchante terraces
          I had the great pleasure of participating in a full day “Enchanted terraces” jeep 4x4 tour, to the middle and north-west of Madeira. It was a great experience, driving off-road up the mountains through some changing weather and terrain, and reaching the top to be above the clouds! The driver: “Lino Gouveia” was an excellent skilled guide, shaking the small group together and sharing a lot of interesting information. The landscape and scenery were absolute stunning, and I would very much recommend the “Greendevilsafari” and hope to make other tours with them soon!
          Written January 27, 2025
        • andrewpP3037CN
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Breathtaking North West – Enchanted Terraces
          The tour was a fantastic blend of relaxing pools and high energy off road 4WD through the beauty of Madeira hinterland. Lino our guide was a friendly, knowledgeable and enthusiastic host and driver, and made our day most enjoyable. Highlights were the off road driving through some spectacular scenery, Fanal Forest, Seixal and even the drive back to Funchal through some beautiful little towns. Would highly recommend!
          Written January 26, 2025
        • Alisa D
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Great adventure!
          If you’re looking for a way to see the island in a day, this a great option! My guide was Lino and he did a great job!
          Written January 26, 2025
        • arinvshka
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          perfect!!
          By far the best guided tour I’ve ever had, the guide was absolutely fantastic ! He was funny, and at the same time shared so much interesting information about the island, and took us to some truly stunning spots ! You could tell he is passionate about what he does and genuinely cared about making sure we had a great time. I had such an amazing experience; it will definitely remain one of my favorite memories from my trip. I highly recommend this tour to anyone visiting Madeira !!
          Written January 26, 2025
        • Toureer
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Super complete and amazing tour
          Luiz took us to Campanario viewpoint, off-road towards Paul da Serra (which was super cool) to see the peaks of Madeira and stand above the clouds, Porto Moniz where we enjoyed the natural pools accompanied by amazing full rainbow above the sea, Seixal, and the black beach. The tour was amazing! I recommend it to anyone visiting Madeira and feeling adventurous, but couldn't afford to drive off-road alone.
          Written January 26, 2025
        • kerrycZ3120ZI
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Amazing trip
          Was an excellent trip - driver very knowledgeable and friendly. Explained the plan of the day and was punctual. The sights were awesome and we learned so much about the beautiful island.
          Written January 3, 2025
        • Shelley W
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Full day island tour with Joao - not to be missed!
          We had a wonderful time yesterday on the full day island tour. Our guide, Joao, was excellent. He arrived promptly at 9.30am and took us around the whole island. As a local Joao has in depth knowledge of Madeira, and took us to places we never would have found on our own. He is also multi lingual and speaks excellent English having lived in South Africa for many years. I can’t recommend this tour, and Joao, more highly. This was an unforgettable day for us, and gave us a wonderful insight into this beautiful island.
          Written January 3, 2025
        • markbH677GN
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          An outstanding and thoroughly enjoyable day out with a brilliant guide.
          An absolutely amazing day out! The tour was outstanding the places amazing and our tour guide Eduardo (Ed) was truly brilliant!!! The swimming at Porto Maniz (Enchanted Terraces) was terrific, also the off road part was great - enjoyed the site down lunch as a group! All in all it was a fantastic part of our holiday on Madeira.
          Written January 2, 2025
        • charlottebD9204TB
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Many viewpoints & offroading in an open roof jeep
          We booked this tour, because it included so many places that we wanted to visit, such as Porto Moniz, Seixal and Fanal. We were very lucky to have Dino as our private driver for just the two of us. What a happy guy and very knowledgeable about the island. The jeep is really cool, the roof can open and you can stand on the backseats and peek your head out for the best views. This tour takes you on all the steep, narrow and offroad roads that you'd rather skip yourself, would definitely recommend!
          Written January 2, 2025
        • 784garyb784
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Absolutely wonderful day
          Absolutely fantastic experience. Particular respect to our tour guide, Nelson. Outstanding person - we had a person with learning and communication difficulties and Nelson went above and beyond to include and communicate with him. He had the additional challenge of a group requiring both English and French languages, and he handled everything with aplomb. 100% recommended and we will definitely use Green Devil again.
          Written January 1, 2025
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        Connector53952625077
        United States6 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Sep 2024 • Couples
        Madeira peaks driver Luís

        We did a tour with Luís Castro and we can say that it was our best day in Madeira, Luís knows a lot about the history of the island, the first stop he took us to taste poncha, a very traditional Madeira drink, the off road part he talked a lot about the plants, the levadas and the laurissilva forest, for lunch we stopped in Santana at the Espiga restaurant which was phenomenal, Luís recommended the traditional dishes as well as the famous bolo do caco with garlic butter and everything was delicious and at a good price! Halfway through the tour there's a stunning secret stop! The last part, just as he said, turned out to be the most epic part of the tour! The climb to the peaks, the view of faial, the Royal Path with the mystical forest, and the last stop at pico do areeiro!

        5 stars for Luís !
        5 stars for Greendevilsafari !

        When we go back to madeira we will definitely choose green devil and Luís as our driver again!

        Thank you
        Written September 24, 2024
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        Mónica A
        London, UK8 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Apr 2022 • Couples
        We had the best guide ever and the tour was super cool bc of that! Mr Duarte Silva was amazing, super engaging, making sure we would see not only turistic places but also places that he likes himself. Always accommodating flexibility on how the group was experiencing the tour and not rushing us at the stopping points. We had luch all together in a very traditional place that he booked and ordered before we arrived so it was a chilled time to chat and relax. The food was great and according to him, the real deal and not the fish with banana that everyone else clames to be.
        We’ve booked a different company for the following day to go to the other part of the island and we soon regretted. We wish we have booked the same company and hopefully the same guide again. The tour itself is absolutely amazing with breathtaking views.
        Written April 13, 2022
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        Ryan
        5 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Jul 2023 • Friends
        This tour was our second tour with Green Devil and our fantastic driver Miguel.
        When we booked this tour we specifically asked for Miguel after the superb experience on our first tour "Porto Moniz - Enchanted Terraces: Open 4x4 Full Day Tour" with him. He is an excellent local driver you can ask for with all his stories, information and history about Madeira. You can ask him anything. A very chilled, humorous, humble guy.
        During that aforementioned tour he mentioned to me the Santana off-road tour during our time in the Poncha bar while I was having a Poncha. He said the tour through Santana is indescribable beautiful and a total contrast.
        Oh boy! After the Santana tour I can say it definitely was!
        The journey between the stops along the coast and through the mountains was magnificent. Miguel calls the forests in the mountains "Jurassic Park of Madeira" and they deserves that name. If you ever watched the Jurassic Park movies now you can imagine how it feels like driving through those.
        The small towns at the coast are very picturesque, inviting to stroll around and take in that relaxing Madeirian life.
        Highly recommended to do one of those Santana tours.
        Written October 8, 2023
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        Naomi G
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        1.0 of 5 bubbles
        Sep 2024 • Friends
        One of the worst things I have ever experienced. I am 5 months' pregnant and our tour guide made jokes about me losing my baby on the bumpy drive through the forest (the company was aware that I was pregnant when I booked the trip and confirmed it was not a problem). The tour guide said he would "put a new baby inside me" if I did lose it but that it might be difficult because he is an "old man". The guide continued to make inappropriate comments of this nature throughout the day. I would have left the trip as soon as it happened, had we not been in the middle of the forest with no public transport options available.

        Justifiably, I made a private complaint directly to the company to bring the very serious incident to their attention. They tried to guilt trip me into not making a public review and didn't even offer me so much as a refund (the VERY least they could have done given the traumatic experience I endured). They excused the shocking behaviour on the basis that the guide is a "loving grandfather" and because the other guests laughed at the jokes. They completely disregarded the severity of the comments and how I was made to feel on one of their trips.

        I strongly DO NOT RECOMMEND this company. There are plenty of other companies that offer the same tours on the island that are also cheaper. We had an absolutely brilliant experience doing the west coast trip with a different provider.
        Written September 17, 2024
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        Véro D
        3 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Sep 2023 • Couples
        Superb day thanks to our guide LINO who introduced us to the vegetation, the passage through the middle of the forest with the open-top 4x4 and breathtaking places. We were able to taste local products (honey, fruits and rum).
        And a special mention for lunch at the restaurant in Santana (it was a treat). Unforgettable day thanks to LINO. Thanks again.
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        Written September 15, 2023
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        Camelia U
        6 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Oct 2020 • Couples
        We had two full day tours with this company and they were both amazing . One was the highest peaks and Santana and the other Porto Moniz and natural pools . They were both really nice but i preferred the first if someone had to choose between them .On both trips we were lucky to have this amazing guide witch we will forever remember . His name is Nuno and he’s knowledgeable , funny and really friendly . He really made us laugh , taught us about his beloved island and made us feel comfortable even when we were really late .... never once felt rushed . Thank you Nuno and thank you Green devil for having such a great employee . We will be back and book all tours with you
        Written November 20, 2020
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        mta138
        Nuneaton, UK10 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Oct 2022 • Couples
        What a day, full of excitement and awe at the landscapes in the centre of the island. Awesome views appeared at every hairpin bend or at the top of amazingly steep roads. The day was led by Jose, a local who knew everybody ( his cousins😁) and was extremely knowledgeable about the area and what made it tick. He led us through a rum tasting explaining the economic importance of the sugar crop to the population and took us to a hidden gem of a restaurant in the hills serving good local food at a very reasonable cost..
        We were with two other customers in the land rover who were very friendly, all could speak English and bonded well as a team.
        Written October 30, 2022
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        linso1000
        Saxmundham, UK128 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Had a great day out on the last day of our holiday and so glad we did. We got to see so much of the island, from enchanted forests out of Jurassic park to the highest peak. Our tour guide Jose was fantastic, so knowledgable, friendly and great fun - if you get a chance to do one of his tours it’s well worth the money.!
        Written July 12, 2021
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        HVGlenn
        Isles of Scilly, UK25 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        May 2022 • Friends
        Our trip was with Diego (excuse the spelling if it’s wrong) and Sophia who were punctual and instantly welcoming. The vehicle was perfect for off-road driving and comfortable too even on the bumpiest of tracks negotiated by these two skilled drivers.
        Lots of information, plenty of stops for photos, a very relaxed and enjoyable full day tour, thank you
        Written May 22, 2022
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        Zaiga C
        2 contributions
        3.0 of 5 bubbles
        Oct 2021 • Friends
        I don’t recommend to choose this company for jeep safari, because if you will be sitting in the back seats it will be uncomfortable and outside views you will practically not see. Cars are not comfortable, cars are old plus drivers don’t offer to swich seats which is normal thing for other jeep safari company. I am disappointed about these company’s service because most of the road ( I get to 2 tours) I sit in back seat and I must ask to driver is it possible to swich seat. It is not normal situation.
        Written November 7, 2021
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